Full Day, Scattered post
Once again, I’ve shilly shallied until it’s later than I really want to be awake. But Marianne is getting married and I think this is the ceremony we need!
Another grin inducing video.
Then there’s a little color, from Deb’s design wall in Houston, the center…border was part of the shopping I did while in Houston.
I had a blog essay of sorts in mind…something about how the lines we draw to make categories and groups of people or academic fields or genres of music are never as clearly defined as we think, and we miss a lot (or I do) by not dealing with specific people with specific behaviors and fears…. I guess it’s a follow on to my thoughts on psychopaths. Evil exists but is anyone purely evil? Furthermore, we miss a lot of fascinating and interesting phenomena because we catagorize some of the serendipty of life as random chance, when there may be something else…
I really liked this draw back from the past on what motivates conservative thinking. From Powerline this morning
In some ways William Buckley’s Up From Liberalism (1959) is a dated book, but Richard Brookhiser quotes the book’s timely penultimate paragraph:
I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yestereday at the voting booth.
Wretchard keeps on writing to draw a line between red state and blue state outlooks and philosophy.
Joel Klotkin, writing in the journal of the American Enterprise Institute discusses the relative outlooks of the Blue and Red State models, terms he uses as shorthand not only to describe a cultural divide, but also an economic outlook.
Dividing our world, our picture in our heads of the world around us into abstractions which may or may not have relevance to the truth…. there’s cost to that, but it also simplifies
July 24th, 2009 at 5:31 am
What a fun wedding ceremony intro. Yes, I do believe that is the sort of wedding Marianne should plan. Weddings should be fun and that certainly was fun if a bit unusual.
July 24th, 2009 at 8:33 am
There is a Frank Herbert quote from his book “Dune”, but I can’t find the book right now. The quote is something like: Fear is a mind bender. It may confront me, pass around me, even pass through me, but it will not control me.
July 24th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I found the quote, which although is from science fiction (and a very good read I think you would enjoy), I find applicable to all parts of the world today. From Frank Herbert, then, in Dune: …I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain….. I highly encourage this book for your enjoyment. If you read it, then I’ll tell you my opinion of the four Dune books that came after. This one, is solice to the soul.
July 24th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Great entrance. Marianne should definitely plan this and can I be invited??? Think Carlo will let her dance down the aisle??? Will he dance with her?
July 26th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
What the hay? This was some kind of a ‘christian’ wedding?? It appeared to be from the cross on the mantel. Sure looked like a Unitarian’s wedding to me!! Been to too many like this to believe this is something extraordinary!!
(But being the matron that I am, I am more moved by those with some propriety. Yeah, right
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