You Give and Take Away

A (late) Lenten posting, that’s been on my computer awhile: some scattered thoughts on the Book of Job. (This’ll be the last substantial posting; the blog’s been dead for a while anyway. Though I plan on putting up sketches occasionally, as I like the look and feel.) – (“Blessed be the Name of the Lord”, [...]

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Misery

A man after my own heart: The Advantages of Pessimism by Alain de Botton: For those teetering on the verge of despair, there can paradoxically be no finer book to turn to than one which seeks to grind man’s every last hope into the dust. The Pensees – far more than any saccharine volume touting [...]

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Lacrimosa

[This is a pre-scheduled post; I had intended to have one yesterday, too - which I spend entirely in transit from one city to another - but it slipped my mind during the mad rush to get all the necessary loose ends tied up before leaving.  Anyway, I'm back in Barrie, now, and will be [...]

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The Everyman’s Chesterton

This was released two weeks ago, but I only just found out about it today. Noted Chesterton scholar Ian Ker has compiled a 950-page volume for the Everyman Library, in which is apparently contained a vast array of the best of the gargantuan author’s works.  Unlike similar and shorter volumes already extant, this one will [...]

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Odyssey Dawn

As you’ve likely already heard, yesterday saw the opening of military contact between the forces of a broad UN coalition (including the US, UK, Canada, and France, at least) and the disputed Gaddafi ruling authority in Libya.  This was done in response to the unrelenting threat that the Gaddafi regime poses to the people it [...]

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We all fall down

Today is Ash Wednesday. So much of the Christian calendar is spent in reminding us of hope, and redemption, and eventual glory – it’s only fitting that there should be at least one day of all the year in which we are reminded of the dispiriting, absolute disaster that awaits all of us.  Sir Thomas [...]

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A Philosophical Refutation

Our blogging schedule has me signed up for artwork production on Saturdays. I’m currently working on a couple of drawings – some for a book, one for a text adventure, one piece of fanart for a Harry Potter fanfiction (which, I think, either I or Nick will most probably be talking about more), and a [...]

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