Cartoonist John Ewing

is a gentleman I recently learned about
through friend & author Barbara Beyer
Malley, as she has been looking for an
illustrator for the next published work of
her mother's poetry. I haven't , however,
been successful at copying & pasting (or
posting), the drawings Barbara has sent,
as I wanted to attempt & post at least a
page from a copy of his book:

The Cessna, The Sky....and the Cartoonist.

From Barbara:

"I discovered John Ewing... while looking
for an artist to illustrate my next series.
Noticing in his bio that he had a passion
for flying, I contacted him and sent him a
couple of my flying articles. He mailed me
a copy of his self-published book,
The Cessna, The Sky....and the Cartoonist.
The drawings and the text are both hilarious...

...In a section called "In Gratitude," John
ends with this: 'Being a Christian introduces
another element in my gratitude, too, for I
am aware that it is God who, as so often in
my past, provided the opportunities and
wherewithal to pursue this wonderful sport.
He was with me in it all the way. I am grateful
to Him.' "

Barbara also writes that John lives with his
wife Jenny in New Zealand, and worked for years
for Walt Disney as an animator. So as soon as I
can figure out how to do it, & with Mr. Ewing's
permission, I will happily post a copy of his work
here...

& my many thanks to Barbara for sharing the info!

Too

true...

I don't usually post political
commentary, but I thought
I'd state the obvious anyway.

Thanks to CC @ The Crescat
for the link.

YouTube - Joseph Pearce's Conversion, clip 1

Thanks to the
Rochester Chesterton Society,

& an excellent tip from Peter,

who commented over @

The Blog of the American Chesterton Society.

Originally published 6/28/08.

YouTube - Joseph Pearce's Conversion - clip 2

Many thanks to the
Rochester Chesterton Society,

for their excellent work:-)

Originally published 6/28/08.

Click on the image

to read more about a puzzle
that tells tales by "Old Salte"
puzzle-cutter, Ted Malley...















Originally posted on 2/5/09

A Few Words to the Wise

From: The Revelations of Saint Birgitta of Sweden -
Book 2, Chapter 6

"...I can do all things in a single instant and with
a single word, but I want your reward to grow
through your own efforts and my glory to grow
through your bravery. Do not be surprised at
what I say. If the wisest man in the world
could count up how many souls fall into hell
each day, they would outnumber the sands of
the sea or the pebbles on the shore. This is a
matter of justice, because these souls have
separated themselves from their Lord and God.
I am saying this so that the devil's numbers may
decrease, and the danger become known, and
my army be filled up. If only they would listen
and come to their senses!"

Some of my favorite things

I received for my b'day this year:

1) A poem:

By Ernestine Cobern Beyer,
written for her daughters, sent to me by
her daughter Barbara (Beyer Malley),
my new adopted sister! :D

Heritage


In love's most secret alchemy, divine,

I bore you. You are mine—and yet not mine.

Ancestral patterns blending with the new

Designed the special pattern that is You.


So did the present and the past devise

Your fair young face, your tender, laughing eyes!

Amazed, I look upon your grace and mirth

As might at some sweet flower the marveling earth.

Barbara is currently working on another
book of her mother's poetry, which I've loved
since I was a child. Then...

2) a link:

From Thomas - coincidentally, to the very
same poem of Ernestine's that I read when I
was a kid, called The Laughing Willow.
Thomas, I got more hits off that one link
than I have all year! XD

...a

3) Halo :

by Beyoncé.
It's not easy, but I'm working on it:)

& forgive my unintentional omission,
but I also got...

4) a visit from dear
Saint Nick:D

From Read Me a Rhyme, Please!

The Laughing Willow

By Ernestine Cobern Beyer

Beside a pool within a wood
A family of willows stood.
They could not rest, they could
not sleep;
All they did was weep and weep.
Indeed, they wept, this willow
clan,
As they have wept since time
began.

Imagine, then, the pain and
grief
That shook the willows, root
and leaf,
When suddenly beside the
pool
The youngest willow broke
the rule!
A woodsy laughter, small
and thinned,
Fell lightly on the summer
wind.

"Weep!" cried all the willow
crowd.
"To laugh is simply not allowed!"
But though they showed him
what to do,
And gave him Sobbing Lessons,
too,
The youngest willow, small and
daft,
Just tossed his arms and laughed
and laughed!


Many, many thanks to
Barbara Beyer Malley for
the okay to post:)
This charming poem,

(& many others!) is included

in Ms. Malley's book for

children, Read Me
a Rhyme, Please! (link)
available at Barnes & Noble.

Caught

Moral Philosophy 101
with Dr. Richard Geraghty (link)
(on EWTN) recently...

Monday & Tuesday @ about
7:50 A.M; "class" lasts for about
ten minutes...

Will post more, especially if
I find him on YouTube...

Originally posted 2/9/09

Madonna of the Mountains

by artist Wislawa
Kwiatkowska.


More of her work, entitled
Polish Madonnas in Art and
Poetry-
can be seen here.

Reposted from 12/18/07.

An extraordinary offering from EWTN:

Available from their Audio Library:

The Quest for Shakespeare, with Joseph Pearce. (link)

If you haven't caught the program on tv, here's your
chance to listen in.


Originally posted: 4/22/09

:(

The Mother's lament to her daughter
that the most innocent lamb, Jesus Christ,
is neglected by his creatures in modern times.

Book 3 - Chapter 25

The Mother speaks: "My lament is that
on this day the most innocent lamb was
carried who best knew how to walk. On
this day, that little boy was silent who
best knew how to speak. On this day, the
most innocent little boy who never sinned
was circumcised. This is why, although I
cannot be angry, still I seem to be angry
because the supreme Lord who became a
little boy is forgotten and neglected by his
creatures."

From:

The Revelations of Saint Birgitta of Sweden.

Liking Christ's Rx for us

to adopt, as prescribed to St. Dominic,
from:

The Revelations of Saint
Birgitta of Sweden: Book 3 - Chapter 17

Can't copy & paste it for some reason - but
it lists three virtues to apply to remedy the
three evils Christ cannot abide.

P.S: The writings of the saints do not contra-
dict the Bible, & are not required reading. That
said, one can tell through prayer & discernment
that they do not contradict the Word of God,
but contain further aid & (very!) wise words
for us. The way I see it is, life ain't easy, & I
can use all the help I can get to get through it
& into the next one, which is going to be our
permanent, not (as this one is), temporary
abode...

Amen.

What I'm reading

The Evidential Power of Beauty:
Science and Theology Meet,
by Thomas Dubay.


An apt presentation of the subject & its
many sub-categories, from our Creator's
tangible imaginings -

At least those He's let us know a bit about.

*More of the wonderful art

of "Titanic" proportions...

By portrait artist Ylli, from
his eBay Store.

*And yes, he does family
portraits from photos, too.

Here's another from Gilbert Keith...

Chesterton (ILNA 15 July 1922):

Art is born when the temporary touches
the eternal; the shock of beauty is when the
irresistible force hits the immovable post...

*By Joe LeClerc

*This is the archived version
of this poem, originally published
in the 'future' on June 22, 2007...

M. LeClerc requested an easily-read
plain text type, available here. (link)

Although I had another request to

retain the pink version...

The White Rose Knighted


Perfervia was the Queen


.........who knighted a white rose


.............................dressed in a garland


.....................................of pear garden green




and rose became man


........who crossed morphine and milk


.......,,,,,,,.......fawn drank the potion


..................................that made fawn dream a dryad


.................................................whose garment was silk




and the silk nymph rambled


............and robbed monkeys and men


.........................till a tear tossed a turn-key


...........................................that opened a gaol. then




the bottom of heaven


...........dropped from the skies


..............................and the ear descent light




blinded nymph's eyes


.....nymph fell through a hole


..........in Swiss fromage skies


............and dropped to a place where breath whispered
flames


....................................................flicker and die

Haunting...

Got mine!

from Ignatius Press...

Dear and Glorious Physician,
by Taylor Caldwell -

H/T: Mom:-)

Growing up, this book, (one
of my mother's favorites) - about
St. Luke, was practically required
reading.

It has been out-of-print for a while
now, so it's great to see Ignatius Press
making it available again.

Originally posted 8/2/08

Anybody know...

if there's any truth to the story
that Steven Spielberg owns the rights
to Susan Kay's Phantom?

I was not aware that he was a phan of
the story. Have read a bit of Phantom
fic since having seen the 2004 movie
this past year, & wrote a couple of reviews
over at Amazon, although not for all of
the books that I've read. My favorite is
Deception: A Phantom of the Opera Novel,
by Shirley Yoshinaka. I haven't read
much fiction lately, but was drawn to
the story & the character of Erik, who
actually has a Wikipedia write up.

A few years ago a blogger wrote quite
extensively on the similarities of a
different character and his Christian
values, although it was not a story
that dealt directly with Christianity.

More to come on the subject...

From: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA:

THE MOVIE LIBRETTO

From the Carmelite Nuns...

of Japan.












Japanese Madonnas












Originally posted 2/11/06

Interesting question posed

from my Chesterton Yahoo group:

Why haven't Catholic pro-choice
politicians, like Joe Biden, been
excommunicated? The questioner
includes the fact that the Church has
historically been reluctant to take such
action.

Understanding that the Church is not a
democracy, my opinion is that they cer-
tainly should do so. Having not been
originally married in the Catholic Church,
I was unable to receive Communion for
many years. So, I went to Mass & sang
in the choir, but did not receive. Thank-
fully, that problem was resolved. The
Eucharist is not to be taken lightly, & God
is not just some far-away entity that is to
be appeased on Sundays & forgotten about
the rest of the week. His Words are to be
given great deliberation, & applied to our
lives, which definitely includes what we
stand for, & how we vote.

From G. K. Chesterton: ILNA 29 Oct 1921

Bolshevism and Big Business
are very much alike; they are
both built on the truth that
everything is easy and simple
if once you eliminate liberty...

Very neat drawing

of Saint Michael the Archangel,

who looks strikingly familiar...

From:

The Art of David Myers.

Joseph Pearce has written

a second book on William Shakespeare -

Read all about it at the

Ink Desk.

Tumbling...

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