Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Apparently, music also has enemies. Sing.

This video. I'm sorry. Just watch and be amazed.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Fall Fashion

This shoe is just so startlingly ugly I have to share.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Kings Dominion



Here are some pictures from the Kings Dominion trip! These are the "favorites;" the Dominator and the Volcano.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Bernard Hepton

In my musing over the early Mansfield Park adaptation, I stumbled across an interview that may be of interest to certain people...

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Back from California




Back from my trip to California - it was a great trip! I enjoyed spending time with those 'wild' Gildeas - who are all a great deal less wild than they used to be (or than they would like to think they are now).

Patrick was a ton of fun and Audrey's house is gorgeous!

Saw Uncle Rich & sundry of his children. Had a little lunch with Stojan & Janja - and if you believe that, I have a bridge in San Francisco I'd like you to take a look at.....

Missed the fires - although you can see the flames and plenty of the smoke from Patrick's aerie.

Star of the Sea

One, two, three:
Happy Birthday to You,
Happy Birthday to You,
Happy Birthday dearest Mother of God,
Happy Birthday to You!!!

Monday, September 7, 2009

Hyacinth

St. Hyacinth

Dominican, called the Apostle of the North, son of Eustachius Konski of the noble family of Odrowaz; born 1185 at the castle of Lanka, at Kamin, in Silesia, Poland (now Prussia); died 15 August, 1257, at Cracow. Feast, 16 Aug. A near relative of Saint Ceslaus, he made his studies at Cracow, Prague, and Bologna, and at the latter place merited the title of Doctor of Law and Divinity. On his return to Poland he was given a prebend at Sandomir. He subsequently accompanied his uncle Ivo Konski, the Bishop of Cracow, to Rome, where he met St. Dominic, and was one of the first to receive at his hands (at Santa Sabina, 1220) the habit of the newly established Order of Friars Preachers. After his novitiate he made his religious profession, and was made superior of the little band of missionaries sent to Poland to preach. On the way he was able to establish a convent of his order at Friesach in Carinthia. In Poland the new preachers were favourably received and their sermons were productive of much good. Hyacinth founded communities at Sandomir, Cracow, and at Plocko on the Vistula in Moravia. He extended his missionary work through Prussia, Pomerania, and Lithuania; then crossing the Baltic Sea he preached in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. He came into Lower or Red Russia, establishing a community at Lemberg and at Haletz on the Mester; proceeded into Muscovy, and founded a convent at Dieff, and came as far as the shores of the Black Sea. He then returned to Cracow, which he had made the centre of his operations. On the morning of 15 August he attended Matins and Mass, received the last sacraments, and died a saintly death. God glorified His servant by numberless miracles, the record of which fills many folio pages of the Acta SS., August, III, 309. He was canonized by Pope Clement VIII in 1594. A portion of his relics is at the Dominican church in Paris.

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