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29-Jun-2005

Wow! The world is 3-D!

I’ve always had very good eyesight. Last time my eyes were checked, about ten years ago, the left was 125% and the right 180% of normal. But they’ve always been very different: so different, in fact, that I’ve never had proper depth vision. And as it seems silly to have glasses to correct only that (cylinder and no correction; I don’t know if it’s even possible) I’ve never had glasses while my eyes were good enough.

But now I’m fortymumble, and my left eye had been falling short of expectations for some time, though not annoyingly enough to do something about it. Until this morning in the middle of the liturgy of the parish feast, when the slight squint that (I realise now) had become second nature suddenly sprouted a headache.

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Posted: 29-Jun-2005 | /domestic_blend/myself | link | 0 comments

10-Jun-2005

The Wizard comes to town

Theatergroep Splinter came to the girls’ school and produced a Wizard of Oz… well, not really a musical, though there was a lot of music, and not really a play; let’s say a chunk of theatre. (Their web site, by the way, doesn’t mention this one; it must be new)

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Posted: 10-Jun-2005 | /domestic_blend/daughters | link | 0 comments

Afterthought

Orthodox Christians should write and paint and sing and dance. We should make movies and television shows. We should make clothes and produce textiles as art as well (the fullness of culture is itself too large to describe in a sentence, a paragraph or even a book). And in all these activities, they will be expressive of the fullness of our humanity without having to stick an icon on everything to prove its Orthodoxy.

—Father Stephen in Glory to God for All Things

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