More apocalypse, less angst
The best proof we have that life is good, and therefore that there may perhaps be a God after all, who has our welfare at heart, is that to each of us, on the day we are born, comes the music of Johann Sebastian… Continue Reading “On J. S. Bach”
“…it is questionable whether Christ departed from life with the words we find in the Holy Scriptures, those of Mathew and Mark, My God, my God, why hast Thous forsaken me, or those of Luke, Father, into Thine hand I commit my spirit, or… Continue Reading “Bad to worse.”
About this time of year, every gardener I know is busily engaged in the dreaming process of gardening. There isn’t much else to do in January in areas where the ground is frozen solid – and here on the coast it’s a little too… Continue Reading “In the Bookshed: Gardeners love planners”
Farm Together Now: A Portrait of People, Places and Ideas for a New Food Movement Chronicle Books 2010-11 Amy Franceschini, Daniel Tucker, Anne Hamersky This book came in the mail right before Christmas – thanks to local distributor Raincoast Press – and although it… Continue Reading “In the bookshed: Farm Together Now”
There are those nowadays who would regard faith in socialism as even more eccentric than the exotic conviction that the Blessed Virgin Mary was assumed body and soul into heaven. Why, then, do some of us still cling to this political faith, in the… Continue Reading “Faith and politics”