Category Archives: Art-Music-Lit

Ring out, wild bells

Posted on January 1, 2023 by Kerry

Alana Levandoski, “Ring Out, Wild Bells”Watch at You Tube For Advent and Christmas this year, Candace and I again are reading aloud together through Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word, a collection of poems and essay reflections. On New Years … Continue reading →

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Kindness and Hope

Posted on December 9, 2022 by Kerry

One of the pleasant surprises and joyous discoveries last month for us was the discovery, in a used-bookstore in Scotland, of the kind and hopeful book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, by Charlie Mackesy (Amazon). We … Continue reading →

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Galileo’s Telescopic Discoveries: Thinking Visually in the History of Science

Posted on October 15, 2022 by Kerry

Thinking Visually IEEE VIS, the premier international conference on visualization and visual analytics, is bringing 1100 people to Oklahoma City this week either in-person or virtually. OU Professor David Ebert is one of the organizers of the conference. David is … Continue reading →

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Information vs. wonder

Posted on July 9, 2022 by Kerry

“I’m very concerned that our society is much more concerned with information than wonder, in noise rather than silence. How do we encourage reflection? … Oh my, this is a noisy world.” (video) — MisterRogersQuotes (@MisterRogersSay) July 8, 2022 “I’m … Continue reading →

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Death has lost already

Posted on June 14, 2022 by Kerry

The Arcadian Wild: website | YouTube Dear Lincoln, Isaac, and Bailey, My wife Candace and I watched Andrew Peterson’s virtual Easter Monday show. It was so moving in that Andrew’s music and reflections always seem suffused with hope in the … Continue reading →

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The Swing

Posted on May 8, 2022 by Kerry

The Swing (song) When our girls were young, Candace took the poem “The Swing” by Robert Louis Stevenson and gave it a catchy tune. They loved to be pushed in a swing as she sang the poem. Here’s the poem … Continue reading →

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Beloved song from an old album

Posted on April 17, 2022 by Kerry

Jubilation! Myrrh, 1975 I have this album in my hand, my turntable isn’t working, but here it is on YouTube (and Apple Music). Thanks, Marijohn, your “Where I’m Going” has traveled with me all these years! (2022 – 1975 = … Continue reading →

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Hard Times

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Kerry

Appalachian Journey concert (YouTube, Amazon) / album (Wikipedia) (See also Francis Collins and Renée Fleming here.)

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Francis Collins, Somewhere Past the Pandemic

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Kerry

At a Health and Human Services (HHS) Town Hall December 14, Francis performed a rendition of a well-known song adapted for particular circumstances, as he is wont to do, oftentimes with the collaboration of others (which surprises no one who … Continue reading →

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George MacDonald Christmas Reading

Posted on December 12, 2021 by Kerry

So great to see the George MacDonald Society flourishing with activities like this. Hopefully this is the first of what may become an annual gathering this time of year. Thanks to those who organized it, to Malcolm Guite for welcoming … Continue reading →

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Poetry for Christmas and Easter

Posted on December 10, 2021 by Kerry

Last spring, Candace and I read aloud Malcolm Guite’s anthology, Word in the Wilderness: A Poem a Day for Lent and Easter. We found the poems deeply moving, and Malcolm’s essays opened them up for us both as literature and … Continue reading →

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Brightest and Best

Posted on December 3, 2021 by Kerry

Since we first encountered this song on John McCutcheon’s Winter Solstice album (1984; Apple Music), this has been one of our favorite Christmas songs. Here’s the Magruder Lassies version 😃. In the above music video by Ricky Skaggs, Keith Getty, … Continue reading →

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