And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. [Read more]
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The tune from Billings’s Easter Anthem, my last Easter post, could have been whistled as delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention left work after a hard day of negotiating. I decided we ought to try a 21st-century tune for our next piece, [Read more]
William Billings Begs Leave to inform the Publick, that they propose to open a Singing School THIS NIGHT … where any Person inclining to learn to Sing may be attended upon at said School with Fidelity and Dispatch. [Read more]
To me, the abstract blow that came with victory for the guy I didn’t vote for in the presidential election has been followed by many concrete blows, steps down roads leading to places we don’t want to go as a nation, in terms of wealth inequality, human rights abuses, racism, healthcare injustice—the list is long and discouraging.
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Those flowers and their fragrance were so vivid, so heady, and so good at symbolizing my coming losses— [Read more]
We’re almost exactly south of London here, but we’re not in the same time zone, due to fascist machinations of a bygone era. [Read more]
The little device generally used to tap trees is called a spile [Read more]
I’m doing my best to lean minimalist in my packing this year–no loaves, tea packets, handkerchiefs at all, and certainly no sewing machine. [Read more]
…an initiative designed to highlight “the importance of open government and the dangers of excessive and unnecessary secrecy,” [Read more]
It ended with some rapid-fire admonitions: [Read more]
