Music as Muse
(12/17/22) O Lover, In mid-Advent my wife and I attended a concert in the Basilica of Your Sacred Heart on the campus of the University of Notre Dame featuring faculty and graduate students in...
Author: ambushee
Of Carols & Capaciousness
(12/17/22) [“And all flesh shall see it together” (from Handel’s “And the Glory of the Lord,” Messiah [Is 40:5]).] O Lover, Having finally arrived in Christmastide, I acknowledge yet again how profoundly paradoxical is...
Kintsugi & Advent
(12/11/22) O Lover, Within forty-eight hours last week I had my first and second encounters with the Japanese art of kintsugi: the repair of damaged pottery via the application of gold lacquer to the...