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Saturday, August 1st, 2015 /. It was a purely lovely day today, filled with nothing much to do. I realized not so long ago that there are more and more of these "no plans" evenings and weekends happening. I used to be so busy! Martin and I have one more episode of Sense8. To watch tonight and then we have NOTHING. All the shows we watch are either over for good ( Glee, Mad Men. Or not starting until fall or NEXT spring ( Downton Abbey, Outlander, Game of Thrones, Orphan Black. 2015-08-01 06:35 pm (UTC).
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2015 /. One of my colleagues (who also doesn't have much to do this week, obviously) went with me, and gave me a hard time about the fact that every frame I picked up was basically identical to my current ones. But all the rest were so CLUNKY! So BIG AND ROUND. I am not a fan. My face is fat enough without big round glasses making the effect even worse. Will it be weird if I spend a fortune to buy eyeglasses that are essentially an exact replica of the ones I already have? I agree....
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There are 7 posts filed in Writing. All of these things are heartbreaking in their own way, but right now my heart keeps getting drawn back to be broken in Gaza. So much rubble. So much destruction. So many dead children. Things are different now. From above, literally have no safe place to go. Justified actions. Proportionate response. Regrettable collateral damage. These words do such violence to their dictionary meaning that we should call them what they are: lies. As I write this on July 29, more tha...
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July – 2015 – duncalfe.com
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There was one post published in July 2015. We were black, beyond the visible spectrum, beyond civilization. Our history was inferior because we were inferior, which is to say our bodies were inferior. And our inferior bodies could not possibly be accorded the same respect as those that built the West. Would it not be better, then, if our bodies were civilized, improved, and put to some legitimate Christian use? Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Letter to My Son”. Fr Bob Schelling, homily, July 5, 2015. If the American ...
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There is one post filed in Music. The Weight of Glory. So suddenly it’s November, and one of the projects I’ve been working on instead of writing here is ready to share. During the past year or so I’ve been collaborating with my good friends Anna Purdum, Gary Belisle, Eric Mittenthal and Rick Watson in a band called the Invisible Kingdom Project, and we just released our album: The Weight of Glory. Whatever happened to basic human decency? The Weight of Glory. Eclectica: Week of August 11, 2014.
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There are 4 posts filed in Faith. We were black, beyond the visible spectrum, beyond civilization. Our history was inferior because we were inferior, which is to say our bodies were inferior. And our inferior bodies could not possibly be accorded the same respect as those that built the West. Would it not be better, then, if our bodies were civilized, improved, and put to some legitimate Christian use? Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Letter to My Son”. Fr Bob Schelling, homily, July 5, 2015. If the American church we...
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There is one post filed in Bass. The Weight of Glory. So suddenly it’s November, and one of the projects I’ve been working on instead of writing here is ready to share. During the past year or so I’ve been collaborating with my good friends Anna Purdum, Gary Belisle, Eric Mittenthal and Rick Watson in a band called the Invisible Kingdom Project, and we just released our album: The Weight of Glory. Whatever happened to basic human decency? The Weight of Glory. Eclectica: Week of August 11, 2014.
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Eclectica: Week of August 11, 2014 – duncalfe.com
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August 18, 2014. August 18, 2014. Eclectica: Week of August 11, 2014. Oy, what a heavy week. The deaths of Michael Brown and Robin Williams figured heavily in what I read this week, but there are some rays of light in there too. Rest in Peace Robin Williams. Tragically, Robin Williams lost his long struggle with depression on August 11. This prompted an outpouring of memorials, but also many important discussions about depression and mental illness. Depression, Robin, and You. 8211; Nish Weiseth. Where C...
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There are 4 posts filed in Uncategorized. Whatever happened to basic human decency? The Longview News-Journal recently published a guest editorial that attempted to take on the thorny issue of sexual violence under the title “Whatever happened to self discipline? Go read it, if you have the stomach. However, survivors of sexual violence may wish to pass. Whatever happened to self-discipline? The author deals heavily in generalizations and personal anecdotes:. But men are not animals; insinuating that the...
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January – 2015 – duncalfe.com
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There was one post published in January 2015. That racial equality and justice are nevertheless a long way off. We deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. The second line came at the end of the film, as Lyndon Baines Johnson announced the Voting Rights Act of 1965: There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is only an American problem. There is no them. There is only you and me, only us. Do we have the guts to look in the mirror and deal with what we see there?
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