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Some photos from our first full day (finally!) in Japan. Mostly just wandering and doing tourist things, including the Sensoji Temple, wandering around Akasuka, going to the Ginza, but deciding, because of the rain, indoor activities were called for, so the rest of the day spent at the excellent Edo-Tokyo Museum. Look for a blog post with more detail (link in profile) at some point...(I'm about 14 hours ahead of most of you, so I have no idea what to tell you about when to look for it!) #travel #familytravel #travelwithkids #Japan #TokyoThis is not Tokyo. #travel #ridiculoustravelstories #soon #allegedlyEverything you need to do life, basically. #Birmingham #alabama #catholic #faith #beerShots from our 2012 trip to #Padua #Italy - which I LOVED. It's one of my favorite places of all those I've visited. No photos allowed in the Basilica. Sorry! #Catholic #saints #travel #familytravel #travelwithkidsMy 13-year old playing the 3rd movement of Kabalevsky's "Youth" Concerto at the Samford Academy of the Arts music camp. #piano #music #Birmingham #AlabamaWell, Baby RobinWatch 2018 ended on a tragic note, apparently. #nature #notdisneynature #hawks #alabama #foodchainCorpus Christi procession at Casa Maria convent qnd retreat House in Irondale, Alabama. #catholic #corpuschristi #Christian #Alabama #Birminghambusy few days that I'm still mulling over. Friday morning, my 13-year old was involved in a Master Class with pianist Fred Karpoff at the state music teacher's convention at Auburn University. We then dashed up to Atlanta where he participated in the National History Bee, making it past the Friday preliminary rounds to the Saturday morning qualifiers - but just missed qualifying for the quarterfinals. It was okay. the whole competition was a huge logistical mess. . . . . Back home, we rested a bit, then went downtown to check out the set of a movie currently filming here, called "Live" - it stars Aaron Eckhart (they know him as Harvey Dent from Batman - I know him from Neil LaBute movies). Sunday morning was Corpus Christi at the Sister Servants of the Eternal Word convent, including procession, then Sunday evening ended with Jazz in the Park - right over the hill from our house. I'll probably try to write about it all on the blog today. The history thing was such a mess (not surprising - it was sort of a mess last year, but this year was worse), it provoked...thoughts. #Birmingham #Alabama #Catholic #Atlanta #music #summer #LivethemovieThat's my son on keyboard, helping out at a spring guitar recital....@jonathancainmusic let us know if you need a sub when you come to #Birmingham in August! #music #journeyband #journeyEbook on Mary Magdalene
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"Writing My Way Through Loss and Hope" - guest column at Catholic News Agency.
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Photos from the trip described in the book, divided chapter-by-chapter.
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“and for all this nature is never spent…” really appreciate the contemperary-culture alliterations (in a McLuhan ‘medium is the message’ sense). Here’s some more home-schooling ‘poetry in motion’…
www{dot}youtube{dot}com/watch?v=ZhLCSh4VLmA
a clip of Gerald Manley Hopkins audio-CD and of course this inspiration for “Dappled Things”
www{dot}youtube{dot}com/watch?v=spWfa–sqgQ
(anticipating Laudate sii, the papal encyclical on ecology-environment, alliteration-analysis of his compound-word neologisms, here
www{dot}youtube{dot}com/watch?v=ARbav1N3BFU)