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To see the world. Ah, that’s the thing. So I wait and hope soon to be off again.
Read MoreI recently listened to an excellent lecture by Elaine Ruffolo, an art historian, who spoke about Michelangelo’s women (the title of the lecture available on YouTube). In it she points out that the center of the paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is not God’s creation of Adam (perhaps the most famous of the Sistine…
Read MoreOne of my readers replied to my recent article about “Losing.” I thought it was insightful enough to be widely published. Here it is: All the goings-on in the States reduces the society to the non-society of suspicion, slavery, spies, and policing, as you so well said. It is a repetition of pre-war and WWII…
Read MoreWe lost! I don’t mean Biden won or Trump won. It doesn’t really matter because the real loss is far greater than who will be President for the next four years. What we lost is bāṭaḥ. You know the word (I hope). It is translated “trust,” and in every circumstance except Proverbs 31:11, whenever it describes human…
Read MoreOur recent trip to Venice confirmed that unless COVID restrictions are lifted soon, this wonderful experience will become a memory of the past. Virtually all the gondoliers are going out of business, many after generations of plying the waters of Venice.
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