Friday meditation
I will fold your heart gently in a white paper packet. I will crimp the edges to tuck you in. Like a child in bed, you’ll be safe, surrounded, encircled in smoothness, protected within. With soft white sheets I will surround you, so fragile, in the palm of my hand. You’re my tiny walnut, my baby […]
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Musical Memories, Day 2: Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor
Musical memory day 2. My great friend, Tobbe Janson, nominated me to offer seven days of musical memories. On day one, I talked about my love of two songs as a little kid: the theme from the Banana Splits and Snoopy and the Red Baron.
As I’ve mentioned before, I grew up in a house where music always played and albums littered (in a very Germanic, organized fashion!) the walls, the shelves, and the vinyl boxes. All music was accepted in our house: classical; opera; jazz; rock; prog; pop; and even musicals. The latter two, admittedly, did the least for me, while I cherished the others.
This memory, however, comes not from the Great Plains of Kansas as a child but from Innsbruck, Austria, as a sophomore in college. That year (July 1987-July 1988), I spent at the University of Innsbruck with several close friends, including current Facebook friends, Jim…
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Who Were the Inklings: A Primer
While anyone who knows anything about C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, or Owen Barfield knows of the existence of the Inklings, The post Who Were the Inklings: A Primer appeared first on The Imaginative Conservative.
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Finding Ourselves in Flannery’s Freaks
O.E. Parker is constantly looking in the mirror. Vanity of vanities. Parker is one of Flannery O’Connor’s crazy misfits. A tough dropout The post Finding Ourselves in Flannery’s Freaks appeared first on The Imaginative Conservative.
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Happy Batman Day! Birzer’s Take
Artwork by the amazing Jim Lee. Copyright, DCCOMICS.
When it comes to admiring my heroes, I’m not shy. I’ve loved Batman (the serious Batman, not the goofy 1960s one) since around 1970 or so, back when my maternal grandparents bought me a Batman coloring book. Batman vs. the Frogman. Loved it.
And, I have a rather serious collection of Batman comics dating back to the mid 1970s. I consider him to be a rather traditional western hero.
If you’re interested, here are my various articles on Batman at The Imaginative Conservative:
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2013/08/batman.html
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2014/07/happy-birthday-batman.html
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2011/11/from-aeneas-to-batman-myth-and-history.html
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2014/11/gotham-drama-at-its-best.html
Happy 76th, Batman!
St. Cecilia, Patroness of Prog, is Clearly Working Overtime
On this Prog Rock, I will build my Church. Or something like this.
The Pope–yes, THAT pope–is releasing a prog album.
Goodbye University Bookman Archives–thank you for everything!
By request of the Kirk Center, I will be removing the University Bookman issues (all .pdf) in the next week or so from this website.
Thanks for enjoying them!
University Bookman Winter 1970 (full issue)
Nice piece on John Dos Passos and another by Edward Ericsson.
University Bookman Summer 1969 (full issue)
Only one article for the whole issue. An article called “The Rational Right Wing” by Charles E. Schutz.
University Bookman Spring 1969 (full issue)
Articles by Henry Winthrop, Regis Courtemanche, and Ruth Bevan.
Stormfields 