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April 2015

April 08, 2015

“It’s Great Not To Be Nominated!”

View image | gettyimages.com Today, while looking for something else entirely, I found this video....

April 01, 2015

“A Condition of Complete Simplicity” from T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”

I can't remember how this came to pass, but over the past few days, I've found...

March 2015

March 29, 2015

The Himalayas from 20,000 Feet

Stunningly clear, mind-blowingly beautiful imagery from some of the world's highest mountains. ("HD and Full-Screen?" you ask. "Why...

March 28, 2015

Identifying the Seeds of My Childhood (Literally)

When I was a little kid, wandering through the empty fields down the road from...

March 24, 2015

Sir David Attenborough, Harmless Lunatic

View image | gettyimages.com Here in the U.S., we have "Shark Week." In the U.K.,...

March 22, 2015

Seeing the Familiar in a New Light: Denise Bossert’s “Gifts of the Visitation”

Devotion to the Blessed Virgin has never come to me naturally. I knew the reasons...

March 19, 2015

Using the Next Five Seconds to Make Your Internet World a Bit More Beautiful

I spend a lot of time on the InterWebs. A frightening amount of time, really. And...

March 17, 2015

An Uncomfortably Challenging Quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I can't remember when I first stumbled across this quote, or how. It's from his Gulag...

March 15, 2015

Vietnamese Cave + DJI Phantom 2 Drone = Stunning Video

Full-Screen and HD and take it away! Stunning. The location is Hang Sơn Đoòng ("Mountain River Cave")...

March 14, 2015

Each Piano, A Masterpiece

For some strange reason (connected to reworking their podcast delivery system, I think), the folks...

March 12, 2015

Saying “Good-Bye” to Sherlock Holmes

Stand with me here upon the terrace, for it may be the last quiet talk...

March 05, 2015

I Can Almost See Springtime From Here. Almost.

The arrival of Springtime(-ish) in Wyoming is always a bit of a moving target. We've had...

March 03, 2015

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow(s)

"She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word....

February 2015

February 28, 2015

Just Putting This Here, In Case Anyone Needs It

It's been less than a week since the Oscars ground their 3+hour-way through my Sunday,...

February 26, 2015

No Commentary Necessary — “Drone vs. Volcano”

My first reaction? "Gosh." But that was before I hit the 1:50 mark. Then it...

February 24, 2015

Cricket, Growing More Cricket With Each Passing Day

I have a guilty secret. ...OK, so maybe it's not a secret, because I've actually...

February 10, 2015

“So it was a tale come true; A mighty oak from the acorn grew.”

Taking a few minutes to slow. Things. D.O.W.N...by way of this astonishing little video from Neil...

February 05, 2015

Imitation, Flattery, and Moths

Mimicry in Nature is nothing new. But this has got to be one of my favorite examples....

February 04, 2015

“Every Frame a Painting:” The Art of Cinematic Observation

Last week, fellow Patheotte Frank "YIMCatholic" Weathers sent me this clip. It is good to...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

Magical Murmurations

These fantastical phenomena are pretty much my favorite things ever. 1.An act or instance of...

January 20, 2015

Max Zorn: Using the Familiar in Astonishing Ways

"I wanted to use street lamps as an urban gallery and I wanted to use...

December 2014

December 26, 2014

Pardon My Dust

Today, stumbling about in a Christmas-induced haze, I have come to the shocking realization that I've...

December 17, 2014

Quote of the Day, Courtesy of the Legendary Isaac Asimov (or Is It Actually “The Legendary Alan Alda?”)

In honor of the recent publication of a 55-year-old lost-then-found essay on creativity from the legendary...

December 16, 2014

Boss-Level Christmas Card-ing

Oh, good. Thanks to the almost-impossibly inventive folks at Birdbox Studio, my yearly excuse for not...

December 11, 2014

“My Email Is a Monster”

Via The Oatmeal, some artfully articulated truths about those every-present entities that buzz and buzz and BUZZ about...

December 09, 2014

Colorful Characters (Pixar-Style)

This is sort of brilliant, really. Not so much because of the artistic style/ability on display --...

November 2014

November 27, 2014

“O Praise the Lord of Heaven!”

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! O Praise the Lord of Heaven; Praise Him in the Height, Praise...

November 26, 2014

A Reputation for Being Soft on Turkeys

One of my favorite things about the Thanksgiving season? The opportunity to post this clip from "Shibboleth" (which...

November 25, 2014

God’s Artichoke

...and as the evening of the Sixth Day drew nigh, God thought back over all the good creating...

November 18, 2014

Always On the Lookout for New Wine Skins (and Old Wine)

Stumbled across these two things a few days ago, and thought they went well together....

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