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Eclectic: Books. Jazz. Theater. Art. Classic film. Coffee. MLB. NBA. Jesus. "Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you." —Isaiah 46:4
Happy All Saints Day!
One of 1200 extraordinary miniatures created for a Christian prayer book, "Hours of Louis de Laval," ca. 1480, in Bourges, France. Louis de Laval was a French nobleman. The book is now housed in the National Library of France.
Artist: Workshop of Jean de Colombe
Whenever the body of Christ, through denial or actual choice, ignores the sin of protecting evildoers in its midst, the entire body suffers terribly as a result.
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"Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen,
Voices whisper in the trees, 'Tonight is Halloween!'"
~Dexter Kozen
The New Yorker magazine cover
October 27, 1945
Artist: Edna Eicke
Jamie Wyeth, American (1946- ), Gulls and Pumpkins #3, 1992, mixed media on paper, 55.9 x 71.1 cm, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
30.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 31 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0It is, in my opinion, murder. Using the classic common law definition: the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought.
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"The Landscape of Autumn," 1919
Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942)
Private Collection
Eric Ravilious, British (1903-1942), Boatyard, 1938, watercolor, private collection
28.10.2025 15:49 — 👍 26 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0I would like to again have a president who does not think the presidency is a game to be played but a service to be rendered.
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"Moonlight in Beaulieu," c. 1904
Frits Thaulow (Norwegian, 1847-1906)
Private Collection
NEW: A federal judge slammed DHS Secretary Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi for publicly attacking Kilmar Abrego Garcia in “exaggerated” and “inaccurate” ways — violating rules meant to protect the integrity of criminal proceedings.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Institutions, organizations, ministries, and systems are not Jesus Christ. Nor is Christendom the same as the living body of Christ. I fear many of us have confused Christendom, or our little corner of it, with Christ. They are not, nor have they ever been, the same.
27.10.2025 21:00 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Keeping in prayer those in the path of the Category 5 Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean and for those in India where a cyclone is gaining strength, forcing the evacuation of 50,000.
27.10.2025 15:58 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0"Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race."
~Madeleine L'Engle
"Surely the Author of all created beauty must be Himself the Beauty in all beauty."
~Hilary of Poitiers
"Autumn on the Seine at Argenteuil," 1873
Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
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"The heart of Autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure out upon the leaves."
~ Charlotte Fiske Bates
"Autumn Woods," 1886
Albert Bierstadt (German-American, 1830-1902)
New York Historical Society
Oh my goodness. Outstanding Gospel choir performance of the American and Canadian national anthems before the first World Series game. Classy!
25.10.2025 00:03 — 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Trump destroys everything that speaks to our better selves.
If it is of art, poetry, nature, faith, kindness, community, love - these are the things he cannot abide.
For light has nothing to do with darkness.
2 Corinthians 6:14.
"One life on this earth is all we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can."
~Frederick Buechner
"House in Belgium"
Joseph Raphael (American, 1869-1950)
Private Collection
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
"Lavender Fields of Provence"
Graham Elliott (British, b. 1943)
Private Collection
"The Church at Moret in the Morning Sun," 1893
Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (France)
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Diane Keaton, famed for roles in ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘Godfather,’ dies at 79
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"October Afternoon," 1906
Julian Onderdonk (American, 1882–1922)
Dallas Museum of Art
"Let your eye live and grow in God, and your soul will never shrivel. You can count on it to keep you alive…awake…tender."
~Hildegard of Bingen
Childe Hassam, American (1859-1935), Couch on The Porch, Cos Cob, 1914
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"A Century of Progress," Chicago World's Fair, 1933
Artist Weimer Pursell (1906-1974)
