A Note About This Blog
Although the header says By Maclin Horton, most of the posts here are by Daniel Nichols. Maclin Horton
Caelum Et Terra
Beauty, Mercy, Justice
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Daughters
This: Daniel Nichols
Living Space
Once it was Russian choral music. Then the blues. These days when I am troubled this tune is balm to the soul. It may be heresy, but I think Pharoah Sanders a better saxophonist than St John Coltrane. His sweetness is sweeter, and his rawness rawer. Daniel Nichols
The Most Subversive Phrase in Catholic Social Teaching
The Universal Destination of Goods.
Laudato Si 123
I am pretty much retired. No, not from the Postal Service. One of the shocks of the last year was when I talked to a postal retirement counselor and realized that my dream of retiring soon and spending more time painting and writing was completely unrealistic, that there was no way we could live on [ ]
Another of the World’s Greatest Love Songs
By Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller):
One of the World’s Greatest Love Songs
Because it captures the vagaries and complexities of the heart:
Aha
Every now and then one reads a book that eloquently elaborates on something one only intuited, or had some half-formed notion about. Wendell Berry s The Unsettling of America was one such book for me, Neil Postman s Technopoly another. There have been others, through the years, but they tend to be rare things, received in gratitude. [ ]
The Wolf
When I heard Howlin Wolf, I said, This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies. Sam Phillips
Two from an American Great
I bought Johnny Cash s Unchained album when it came out in 1996, but had not listened to it for a long time until last week. It is a fine album, not least for this, one of the great love songs of musical history, which was penned by Mr Cash: It also contains this cover of a Jude [ ]