http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ New but not different. en Vox Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:47:19 -0800 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/martin-mess.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(chrysostom) http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/martin-mess.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/martin-mess.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:47:19 -0800 The other day I received my CD-ROM from New Advent: The Summa, the Catholic Encyclopedia, the Church Fathers, and other odds and ends of ecclesiastic writings. I browsed over to the article on Luther this morning, which was extensive if not bala... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/martin-mess.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398ce5d0a0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-goodbye.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(chrysostom) http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-goodbye.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-goodbye.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:57:03 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cdcddf0005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cdcddf0005-50si" alt="Goodbye" /></a> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005-50si" alt="Holidailies" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-goodbye.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cdce000005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/hogmanay.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(chrysostom) http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/hogmanay.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/hogmanay.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:34:35 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005-50si" alt="Holidailies" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Things I Discovered This Year: Speaking of Faith; Dead Like Me; the GIMP; Scrabulous; Miro. Things I Rediscovered This Year: 3 Fast, 3 Furious;Taoism; King Crimson; Powell & Pressburger; Joan Miro. Best Development in the World of Entertainment: ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/hogmanay.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cd68ff0001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-book-i-read.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(chrysostom) http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-book-i-read.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-book-i-read.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:45:50 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005-50si" alt="Holidailies" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> When I was a child I was surrounded by books. My father was a reader, and my mother was a reader, and my brother was a reader, and my brother was a reader. Books about Shaw and Russell and Buber and Tillich. Novels by Agnes Sligh Turnbull and Maz... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-book-i-read.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cd2f120005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-pause-that-refreshes.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(chrysostom) http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-pause-that-refreshes.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-pause-that-refreshes.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:20:48 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005-50si" alt="Holidailies" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> It is one of the comic tragedies of the human condition in the 21st century that we enthusiastically embrace habits while vigorously eschewing disciplines. I came up with that platitude while walking in the woods this afternoon, and thought it mi... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-pause-that-refreshes.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398ccda5b0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/big-steve.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(chrysostom) http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/big-steve.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/big-steve.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:25:10 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cc7ad30001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cc7ad30001-50si" alt="Steve Worowski" /></a> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005-50si" alt="Holidailies" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> When I first started doing the Rummage, almost ten years ago, Steve wasn't around. They talked about him: big guy, ran the record department, he was off in South America or somewhere, teaching or something. A few sales later he showed up, and he ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/big-steve.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cc95a30005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-delicate-prey.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(chrysostom) http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-delicate-prey.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-delicate-prey.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:43:32 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005-50si" alt="Holidailies" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Pakistan is very far away. It's far enough away that I have no particular right to comment on events there, express meaningless sympathy for its people, analyze the impact of those events either within that nation or in the context of world polit... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-delicate-prey.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cc43090004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-long-christmas-dinner.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(chrysostom) http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-long-christmas-dinner.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-long-christmas-dinner.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:52:24 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005-50si" alt="Holidailies" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> A glass of champagne is probably the cure for just about anything. It sure made me feel a lot better yesterday. I was exhausted from working twelve hours on Christmas Eve, and by early afternoon the was an intermittent pain in my head and an unpl... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/the-long-christmas-dinner.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cbf9f40003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/two-or-three-things-i-know-about-her.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(chrysostom) http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/two-or-three-things-i-know-about-her.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/two-or-three-things-i-know-about-her.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:45:44 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005-50si" alt="Holidailies" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I do not imagine her as a child. Instead I think of her as a bit older, and still unmarried, still parthenos, because she was crippled, deformed, blind, or grotesque. Taught by her condition to be resigned, disciplined, obedient; and also assured... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/two-or-three-things-i-know-about-her.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cb59070003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/mignonne.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(chrysostom) http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/mignonne.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/mignonne.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:56:24 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398c299020005-50si" alt="Holidailies" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I would have thought that I had never heard of either Pierre de Ronsard, nor of this poem, Mignonne..., but this can't be true. I have read the book at least twice before, and must have seen the references to it. In fact, I remember very clearly ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrysostom.vox.com/library/post/mignonne.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cb12040004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p>