just swamped … check out django …

i’m trying to figure out why i’m so unsettled by so many of the blogs that i’ve found via the 2007 Catholic Blog Awards … i mean pepto-bismol unsetttled … i keep hoping that the blogs will rise a few feet higher than yr average ewtn production … but …
well … really … i should [...]

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Cathleen Falsani :: Opera shows courage, cowardice at convent .

as usual my ears are humming … i was “an adult presence” more or less … i stood around watching and listening but i was too close down front .. when a few kids wanted to dance on my side i stood between them and the stage and looked official … the bands are always [...]

Happy Birthday, John!!

reviews of the opera …
Daily Herald … ‘Dialogues’ cast excels in sensitivity, redemption
Chicago Sun-Times … Fear, religious fervor work in ‘Dialogues’
Chicago Tribune … Ravishing `Dialogues des Carmelites’ pierces the heart
pretty much raves all around … yeah … what they said

Self-sacrifice in the service of a corrupt oligarchy.
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Giving kids the label of “smart” does not prevent them from underperforming. It might actually be causing it.
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There are people unjustly dying NOW!

Merciful and gracious is the LORD, slow to anger, abounding in kindness.
God does not always rebuke, nurses no lasting anger,
Has not dealt with us as our sins merit, nor requited us as our deeds deserve.
As the heavens tower over the earth, so God’s love towers over the faithful.
As far as the east is from the [...]

now i’m just back from the dinner that followed the opera … the opera was sharp really sharp and cool … black & white … brown & white … i guess you’d say simple & minimal with very graceful efffects … les dialogues des carmelites … my first visit to the lyric opera in chicago [...]

God …
god bless the child - billie holiday
surely god is able - marion williams
god only knows - the beach boys
if i should fall from grace with god - the pogues
God Bless America - Kate Smith
Tears Of God - Los Lobos
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen - Bruce Cockburn
God Must Be A Boogie Man - Joni Mitchell
God [...]

seems i’m going to the opera … saturday … more to come

winter today … snowing and blowing … not too impressive inch-wise but formidable in the drifting … though right at this moment it’s really clogging up the air (to filch a phrase from Twain) … we stuck it out in school until 1:15 then sent them happily home …
the drifts right up against the doors [...]

Link: YouTube - Mahalia Jackson - Joshua fit the battle of Jericho.
What are you rebelling against?
What have you got?