Category: Mighty Fine Arts

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    Making Stuff

    It doesn’t really matter what it is, but people who have the talent to create something beautiful out of random parts. I had a friend who’s hobby was woodworking. He made beautiful pen & pencil sets out of mahogany, teak, and other types of wood. My youngest son is quite an artist and photographer. He […]

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    Carniverousness Explained

    Easy. You can’t have your pudding if you don’t eat your meat. Roger Waters and Pink Floyd said so. So it must be true. Right?

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    The Book of Esther

    Read the book of Esther last night in prep for my visit to the museum after church & brunch today. Very interesting story. Ancients were such weird people. So Xerxes, king of Persia, dumps his wife and sets out to find a new one. He holds the BC version of a beauty contest and selects […]

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    The Lost Art of Reading A Book

    I bought a book the other day. Not an eBook. Not an Audiobook. A real, live, physical book. With covers and pages made out of paper. You remember those. Seriously old fashioned. One thing I noticed right away was the weight of the book. It was a paperback but it was the large format type, […]