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Penny for Thought

You would not pass a dollar bill on the sidewalk without picking it up. Maybe not even a quarter. I am sure of that. But a penny? Do you stoop for that? I do. And I just did this morning. Two at time were lying by my car in a local lot when I ran out for groceries. That makes three so far this week. The first was lying on Lexington Avenue outside of St.buy zofran generic https://mexicanpharmacyonlinerx.net/zofran.html over the counter Jean Baptiste earlier in the week. Continue Reading

No Pollution & No Purity

The title means exactly what the words say: naked lunch, a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.                                 William Burroughs, Introduction to The Naked Lunch
That book seethed up from forgotten shallows while I watched a recent episode in the third season of House of Cards. Robin Wright’s character, Claire Underwood, wants to avenge herself on a male diplomat who has slighted her. In a previous scene, he scanned her body, and told her how good she looked in the dress she was wearing. Continue Reading

The Soma of Art & Sex Ed

Children were lifting their tunics for each other before pants ever existed. You show me yours, and I’ll show you mine. It is an ancient dare, a forbidden game, played behind bushes, in stairwells, or in rumpus rooms with the door shut. In secret. But when a grown woman plays it by herself in the Musée d’Orsay, under lights, and in full view of other grownups, we know we are not in a playroom anymore. Not even one in Sin City. Continue Reading

Art Be With You

There can be no question that it [religion] has lost the organic relations with culture which it possessed in the great religion-cultures of antiquity and the Middle Ages. Christopher Dawson, Religion and Culture Art Be With You Slogan on website of the Museo dell’ Opera del Duomo
Of all the forces that bind Western civilization, no anchorhold has been stronger than the Bible. It has been a monumental, creative driver of Western culture. Scripture provides the vaulting under literature and history; it has inspirited majestic visual art. Continue Reading

Acts of Martyrs, 2015

This morning’s broadcast from Sandro Magister lists the names of our twenty-one new Coptic saints. The essay “Saint Milad Saber and His Twenty Companions” can be read in full here. But let me list their names for you. They died whispering prayers, some calling upon the name of Jesus at the moment of decapitation.buy cialis professional online https://blackmenheal.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwentytwo/inc/patterns/en/cialis-professional.html no prescription By knife. We honor them by name: Milad Saber Mounir Adly Saad, bachelor Sameh Salah Farouq, married, one child Ezzat Boshra Nassif, married, with one son of four years Kyrillos Boschra Fawzy, bachelor Tawadraus Youssef Tawadraus, married, three children Magued Soliman Shehata, married, three children Mina Fayez Aziz, bachelor Samouil Alham Wilson, married, three children Bishoi Stephanos Kamel, bachelor Samouil Stephanos Kamel, brother of the latter, bachelor Malek Abram Sanyut, married, three children Milad Makin Zaky, married, one daughter Abanub Ayyad Ateyya Shehata, bachelor Guerges Samir Megally Zakher, bachelor Youssef Shukry Younan, bachelor Malek Farag Ibrahim, married, baby daughter Mina Shehata Awad Louqa Nagati Anis Abdou, 27 years, married with infant Essam Baddar Samir Ishaq, bachelor Hany Abdal-Massih Salib, married, four children Guerges Milad Sanyut, bachelor Continue Reading
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