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It’s certainly not that there hasn’t been anything happening, or that I haven’t been reading. But it’s been a busy summer–full, fun, difficult, challenging, all over the map.
I’ve kept intending to sit down and write catch-up posts. Perhaps the best way to get started is just to summarize:

One of my best and oldest friends, BH, [...]

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I’ve been intending to post about a whole raft of books, a trip to Seattle, spiritual rumblings, and a birthday adventure, but the summer heat and humidity sap most of my initiative. Soon!

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If you can wade through the absolute twaddle inside the interviewer’s mind, Dawn French has some interesting things to say in this Guardian Observer interview
‘You mustn’t lie to yourself or have any shame about anything to do with your body. I really don’t know why I don’t. I have attributed it in the past to [...]

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Ten languages I’ve at times thought I’d like to be able to make myself understood in (or to understand, in the case of dead languages):

English (not, unfortunately, always a given)
French
Dutch
Yiddish
Swahili
Mandarin
Icelandic
Old English
Latin
Hebrew

See, I’ve always had this vague, unrealized dream of being a polyglot. Unfortunately, it has remained a dream, as even my six years of instruction [...]

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OK, so they’re only light flurries, but the very fact that it’s flakes and not a bit of mist is noteworthy.
As is the forecast for tomorrow and Monday: 57, then 63.

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The weekend before the one just past, we went to the Edward Gorey House in Yarmouthport to see the exhibit of the original artwork for the Gashleycrumb Tinies. It was delightful to visit the house a second time, and the Tinies are truly amazing to see. The exhibit has been extended into December, and I [...]

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Thanks to The Revealer for this link: StopLandmines.org.
The video ad (which The Revealer said was rejected for US television) is strong medicine.

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Alberto Manguel. I loved his A History of Reading, so this was a must-read for me. Manguel re-reads twelve favorite books over the course of a year, keeping a commonplace book as he goes.
I don’t like people summing up books for me. Tempt me with a title, a scene, a quotation, yes, but not with [...]

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Thanks to Philocrites for sending me after this page: Official UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights Home Page.

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I’m trying to play with new designs for the blog, and this is just a little piece of that effort.

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