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...

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.

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.

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

*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.

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

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