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Mercury Baroque at Miller Outdoor Theatre

amerrick — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:35:59 +0000

Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos (four out of six) as they were meant to be heard.

Sunset in Juneau

amerrick — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:14:54 +0000

Seattle from the deck of the Rotterdam

amerrick — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:07:24 +0000

Chase Tower

amerrick — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:47:37 +0000

And Chase Tower reflected in 717 Texas. Amazing to stand under them and look straight up. You have to hold on to something. The odd windows on the Tower are that way because of differing blinds.

North in Alaska

amerrick — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:32:32 +0000

My sister is pretty proud of her kids. Ryan is Emily’s husband. With the help of son Barney Funk, 20, and Ryan Walker, the teacher in Chevak, Funk’s creating a new nonprofit to put flight instructors in village schools across the state.

What an insight this is from Thomas Sowell!

amerrick — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:48:12 +0000

“When you consider what an enormous windfall gain it is to be born in America, it is painful to hear some people complain bitterly that someone else got a bigger windfall gain than they did.”

His ‘Random Thoughts’ columns always have good stuff in them. Here is his latest.

Lillypads in Alto

amerrick — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:40:42 +0000

Turquoise Over Kroger

amerrick — Tue, 18 May 2010 01:46:09 +0000

Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau

amerrick — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:34:02 +0000

Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau:
Mock on, Mock on; ’tis all in vain!
You throw the sand against the wind,
And the wind blows it back again.

And every sand becomes a Gem
Reflected in the beams divine;
Blown back they blind the mocking Eye,
But still in Israel’s paths they shine.

The Atoms of Democritus
And Newton’s Particles of light
Are sands upon the Red sea shore,
Where Israel’s tents do shine so bright.

-William Blake (1757-1827), The Essential Blake Selected by Stanley Kunitz, (Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press), 50.

They are still mocking today. It’s just that their names are Dawkins, Hitchins, Armstrong, et. al.

Created For His Pleasure

amerrick — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:14:16 +0000

“Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”

“Thus all creation acknowledges the supremacy of God; and we learn from this song that he made all things for his pleasure; and through the same motive he preserves. Hence it is most evident, that he hateth nothing that he has made, and could have made no intelligent creature with the design to make it eternally miserable. It is strange that a contrary supposition has ever entered into the heart of man; and it is high time that the benevolent nature of the Supreme God should be fully vindicated from aspersions of this kind.”

-Adam Clarke, A Commentary and Critical Notes, (New York: George Lane & Levi Scott), 990.
published in 1851