The 21st annual Croton street fair. Here is “Fearless Leader” at my church, Holy Name of Mary. The Church has a big operation at Summerfest. And here is “Da Boss,” Lori Vlad, being led away by two Croton policemen, very early in the day for rabble rousing! Well, no actually she had to go talk … Read more
This is the climbing season on Mount Everest – the rest of the year the weather is just too bad. Yesterday was the 55th anniversary of the first summiting of Everest, by the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and the Sherpa Tenzig Norgay. A few days ago, a record 75 people reached the top of Everest on … Read more
I don't have a counter that tells me exactly how many people visit this weblog every day; but typepad keeps a rough count on the number of page views, which is not exaclty the same as the number of visitors. Typepad also says that their count is not necessarily accurate. Anyway, yesterday I had 359 … Read more
Yesterday morning Brigid, Tim and I we went for a walk on Croton Point, partially along the south side beach (Joe was overnighting at a friend’s house). Tim took this picture – I will post more Memorial Day pix tonight.
Jim was in the Peace Corp in the late 70’s in Guatemala. Mostly a place called Quetzaltenango. I had visited him there in 1979, at the same time I was teaching in Jamaica. Went over at the Easter break and had a great time. He went back for a visit last week – the last time he’d been down was … Read more
AOL has a nice feature up about the most visited memorials in the U.S.A., from Forbes Magazine Lists Most Visited Memorials – AOL News I was surprised that the Vietnam Memorial is only the third most visited. I myself have been to seven out of ten of them – the top four are all in … Read more
9,771st to be exact. 52 reviews (mostly book reviews originally done here) with 586 helpful votes. But I haven't done a review since Feb. 3rd. Amazon.com: Profile for T. Faranda
Brigid suggested two other titles for this picture: “Guinness is Good for You” and “It’s All in the Guinness”
I guess this trumps Einstein’s famous quote: "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." Belief in God ‘childish,’ Jews not chosen people: Einstein letter The father of relativity, whose previously known views on religion have been more ambivalent and fuelled much discussion, made the comments in response to a philosopher in 1954. … Read more
Actually, this is not new, but it got some headlines today because of an interview given by the head of the Vatican Observatory. There IS an interesting theological question: did Jesus die to redeem mankind humankind only, or did he die for all sentient life (assuming there is sentient life out there) throughout the universe? … Read more