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Showing posts with label How to save the world. Show all posts
Monday, April 29, 2019

Spot the difference

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How gardening makes me look: How gardening makes me feel: What gardening does to my brain: What gardening does to my soul: ...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

"They know in their bones that something has gone terribly wrong..."

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Blessed fellowship of likemindedness. John, a longtime reader, sent me a link to a blog by a guy who is doing what I'm doing, and appa...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Strength and virtue - a good place to start again

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DAY-um! I knew I sort of liked this guy. (And no, not for the obvious reasons.) He's actually a lot like many of the people I grew ...
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Sunday, May 08, 2016

Practicing for old age

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Fascinating blog about the people who live in remote corners of Romania, perhaps the last "untouched" traditional agricultural com...
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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Tradition

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Procession through the town on the Festa di Sant Antonio Posted by Hilary White on Monday, 26 January 2015 What I like about Norcia is not ...
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Saturday, March 28, 2015

Doing it different

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This was one of the first alt-farming videos I saw demonstrating that there is a movement to change things substantially. One of the big ...
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Friday, March 27, 2015

Permanent Culture

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I walked past one of the local realtors' offices today, and had a long look at one of the postings. It was for 5300 sq m. of tereno ag...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

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The title of this interesting documentary is perhaps not the best. It's not so much about getting "off the grid". I would ha...
Friday, September 12, 2014

It used to be normal

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Rubbish. This is just normal knitting speed for someone who was taught properly in childhood. This is one of the great crimes of moderni...
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Monday, May 05, 2014

Ci sei mancato...

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I have a question to put to all able-bodied priests and bishops who were in Rome yesterday. What were you doing while thousands of lay p...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Being "poor," having "enough," and being grateful: the gross personal happiness index

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A personal hero of mine, the 5th and current reigning Dragon King, Druk Gyalpo, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, of the Kingdom of Bhutan, t...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Someone's mad at me

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for being... well... me. I have been saving this little gem for a rainy blog day. You remember the other day when I was musing briefly abo...
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Monday, December 19, 2011

What else is art good for?

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In Western societies, particularly in the post-colonial Anglo nations, we are suffering a terrible crisis of self-understanding. One of the...
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Sunday, May 08, 2011

VE Day

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In your charity, pray for the repose of the souls of my great grandfather, William Doloughan, who served in the Home Guard in WWII and in a ...
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Saturday, May 07, 2011

The Greeks were wrong about a lot of things

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They used to play a lot of cool old films on TV in the afternoons when I was a kid, and whenever I was home sick from school I always made s...
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Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Fr. Ted Colleton: a genuine hero

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A lion. A hero. There are some people who really are "great". I was privileged to have met and spoken with him, and received his e...
Sunday, September 19, 2010

I guess it's really not something you see every day in London

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Update: This just in via FB from Fr. Hugh (the gentleman in white) At Twickenham (where the pic was taken) I left early because I had to get...
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Friday, September 10, 2010

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I knew this little old lady when I was growing up. In fact, I knew a whole bunch of them. They were every bit as great as this, and showed m...
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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Domestic Graces

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What should people do with their spare time? Watch TV? Ah, no. I don't think so. This is what Real People do. These lovely things were m...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

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the money quote is at exactly 4:12 And "praise awlmahty Gahd" for Pastor James David Manning. Ay-men H/T to the Wild One
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