OK, so you take the walk in the pre-dawn darkness. You realise the camera has a ‘night’ setting, so you can actually take your TBTM today. Problem #1, the long exposure time means that any tremors get exaggerated and blur the image. So, you find a bit of seawall to prop the camera on. Problem #2, the dog walks in front of the shutter…
Is the title of James Alison’s latest book, which I read on retreat. Maintains his excellent standard, but I can’t rave about it quite as much as expected simply because I had already read chunks of it on-line (most of the chapters were published as articles at his website)
But if you’re not familiar with his writing, it’s as good a place as any to start. I think he’s wonderful, and he’s been one of the most formative influences on my theological thinking for the last year or two.
Highly, highly recommended.
I’m still digesting this one. Astonishingly well made, compelling acting, great plot with surprising twists (tho’ not all the surprises took me by surprise, if you know what I mean). But I’m left feeling just a little empty. I’m not sure if there is a coherent point to it all. In the end, there is nobody to like or affirm. So I’m just not sure if it is orthodox or not. But well worth watching, all the same, even if it is only as a portrait of things to avoid. Lots of things will remain in the memory from it.
A reasonably good and enjoyable action movie – but an excellent Bond movie; possibly in the top three of the series as a whole. Time will tell.
(Although I don’t think it’s in the top 3, The Spy Who Loved Me will always hold a place in my heart as it was the first one I saw at the cinema, and I was hooked after that.)
PS Eva Green is seriously lovely.
Go read. If you’re not aware of it, you’re not informed. And not being informed, you’ll suffer. Simple as that.
(Not necessarily that article, of course. More the general shape of the world for the next few decades.)
“Here I am inclined to fight windmills, because I cannot yet say the thing I really want to say.”
Wittgenstein, On Certainty, 400
A remark that applies to much of my life recently….
Back. And all the better for the retreat.
I’m not sure I would want to claim that this was a beach photo this morning. Not only did Ollie get his outing before the sun came up, but there was driving wind and rain from the beach up the road – so this was the best I could come up with!
I’m off on retreat today (going here) until Thursday, so posting will be in abeyance until then. (Subject to what I do between now and about 10:30 when I head off).
Is Bush a conservative? Of course not. When all the evidence is in, I think historians will agree with Princeton’s Sean Wilentz, who wrote a carefully argued article judging Bush to have been the worst president in American history. The problem is that he is generally called a conservative, perhaps because he obviously is not a liberal. It may be that Bush, in the magnitude of his failure, defies conventional categories. But the word “conservative” deserves to be rescued.
So says Jeffrey Hart. I agree, especially with the last sentence above.
Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici