Tag Archives: family

As Many As The Lord Our God Will Call: Part One

Posted on April 17, 2019 by nathanalbright

When I posted recently on the subject of people or places being viewed improperly as God-forsaken, a frequent reader of the blog had some questions that were far distinct from what I had intended and which ended up being very lengthy … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Radio Golf (The Century Cycle #10)

Posted on April 11, 2019 by nathanalbright

Radio Golf (The Century Cycle #10), by August Wilson In this play the author ends his century cycle where he began it, at the very same address, in struggling with the reality and the rhetoric of urban renewal in 1990’s … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Fences (The Century Cycle #6)

Posted on April 10, 2019 by nathanalbright

Fences (The Century Cycle #6), by August Wilson I must admit that this is the first play I have read by the author that I have actually heard of, thanks to its somewhat recent film adaptation (that I have not … Continue reading →

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You Have Watched Me Safe In Your Anonymity

Posted on April 5, 2019 by nathanalbright

For deeply personal reasons, I have long found that I greatly enjoy many of the songs by British synth pop artist Howard Jones [1].  Among those songs is “The Prisoner,” where the singer/songwriter compares being photographed to being imprisoned within … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened

Posted on April 4, 2019 by nathanalbright

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir), by Jenny Lawson I lost a good hour to two of sleep in order to finish this book in a timely fashion.  Was it worth the lost sleep?  As I sit … Continue reading →

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Onan The Barbarian

Posted on March 11, 2019 by nathanalbright

Yesterday afternoon in the Speaker’s Workshop, someone said of my sermonette that it made a few of the ladies uncomfortable, dealing with the awkward and unpleasant examples of rape and incest, although I did not dwell on them.  As someone … Continue reading →

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Skinned Knee, Or The Problem Of Painting Oneself As A Victim

Posted on March 8, 2019 by nathanalbright

I find it somewhat humorous and perhaps a bit telling to contrast the debut efforts of my younger brother and I in writing in elementary school.  In the fourth grade at our elementary school it was assigned to students to … Continue reading →

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What Is Not Seen

Posted on March 2, 2019 by nathanalbright

The noted 19th century French economist Frederic Bastiat wrote, among his several works completed before his untimely death due to consumption, an insightful work called “That Which Is Seen, And That Which Is Not Seen.”  This particular work was written … Continue reading →

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It Was Acceptable At The Time

Posted on February 27, 2019 by nathanalbright

[Image taken from:  http://christopherankamedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/video-analysis-calvin-harris-acceptable.html.  Check out the blog; it’s a good one on textual analysis of the song and video for “Acceptable In The 80’s, by British DJ Calvin Harris.] One of the things I most enjoy about listening to … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Explorer

Posted on February 21, 2019 by nathanalbright

The Explorer, by W. Somerset Maugham In reading this book I was struck by what aspects of it made it so appealing, and something clicked that allowed me to better understand why this author has so quickly moved up my … Continue reading →

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