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micrographia micrographia about me name unca location iowa united states 61 years old pretty old for a blogger proud to be a grandpa view my complete profile a great quote on the value of music here s an interesting idea for your next funeral i agree with this perpetual adolescence huh funny funny bit long quote of the day a quick and easy way to improve the olympics a reason to vote for mccain my wisdom december 2004 january 2005 february 2005 march 2005 april 2005 may 2005 june 2005 july 2005 august 2005 november 2005 december 2005 january 2006 february 2006 march 2006 april 2006 june 2006 july 2006 august 2006 september 2006 october 2006 november 2006 december 2006 january 2007 february 2007 march 2007 may 2007 june 2007 july 2007 august 2007 september 2007 october 2007 november 2007 december 2007 january 2008 february 2008 march 2008 april 2008 may 2008 july 2008 october 2008 january 2009 march 2009 thursday march 26 2009 a great quote on the value of music here s an excerpt from a recent speech by karl paulnack director of music at the boston conservatory full speech at http www arsviva org something_important html some of you may know samuel barber s heartwrenchingly beautiful piece adagio for strings if you don t know it by that name then some of you may know it as the background music which accompanied the oliver stone movie platoon a film about the vietnam war if you know that piece of music either way you know it has the ability to crack your heart open like a walnut it can make you cry over sadness you didn t know you had i have come to understand that music is not part of arts and entertainment as the newspaper section would have us believe it s not a luxury a lavish thing that we fund from leftovers of our budgets not a plaything or an amusement or a pass time music is a basic need of human survival music is one of the ways we make sense of our lives one of the ways in which we express feelings when we have no words a way for us to understand things with our hearts when we cannot with our minds posted by unca 7 47 am 1 comments friday march 06 2009 here s an interesting idea for your next funeral http www wltx com news story aspx storyid 71172 catid 2 posted by unca 4 32 am 0 comments friday january 30 2009 i agree with this editorial by kruathhamer well worth reading posted by unca 6 20 pm 7 comments saturday january 10 2009 perpetual adolescence here are the last two paragraphs of an essay by joseph epstein that struck a chord with me if you want to see the entire essay go here at a certain point in american life the young ceased to be viewed as a transient class and youth as a phase of life through which everyone soon passed instead youthfulness was vaunted and carried a special moral status adolescence triumphed becoming a permanent condition as one grew older one was presented with two choices to seem an old fogey for attempting to live according to one s own standard of adulthood or to go with the flow and adapt some variant of pulling one s long gray hair back into a ponytail struggling into the spandex shorts working on those abs and ending one s days among the rip van with its not i think a handsome set of alternatives the greatest sins santayana thought are those that set out to strangle human nature this is of course what is being done in cultivating perpetual adolescence while putting off maturity for as long as possible maturity provides a more articulated sense of the ebb and flow the ups and downs of life a more subtly reticulated graph of human possibility above all it values a clear and fit conception of reality maturity is ever cognizant that the clock is running life is finite and among the greatest mistakes is to believe otherwise maturity doesn t exclude playfulness or high humor far from it the mature understand that the bitterest joke of all is that the quickest way to grow old lies in the hopeless attempt to stay forever young posted by unca 1 55 pm 0 comments friday january 09 2009 huh everything else aside what s the deal with the office of the president elect posted by unca 12 20 pm 0 comments monday october 20 2008 funny funny bit here s one of the most creative comedy bits i ve ever seen i was browsing youtube and ran across it i remember seeing it years ago possibly when it first came out in 1954 but i think i appreciate it more nowadays in case you re pretty young it s sid caesar and nannette fabray posted by unca 1 57 pm 0 comments wednesday october 08 2008 long quote of the day the affirmation of moral principles is not within the competence of formal empirical methods while not denying the validity of such methods but at the same time not restricting its viewpoint to them moral theology faithful to the supernatural sense of the faith takes into account first and foremost the spiritual dimension of the human heart and its vocation to divine love in fact while the behavioral sciences like all experimental sciences develop an empirical and statistical concept of normality faith teaches that this normality itself bears the traces of a fall from man s original situation in other words it is affected by sin only christian faith points out to man the way to return to the beginning math 19 8 a way which is often quite different from that of empirical normality hence the behavioral sciences despite the great value of the information which they provide cannot be considered decisive indications of moral norms it is the gospel which reveals the full truth about man and his moral journey and thus enlightens and admonishes sinners it proclaims to them god s mercy which is constantly at work to preserve them both from despair at their inability fully to know and keep god s law and from the presumption that they can be saved without merit god also reminds sinners of the joy of forgiveness which alone grants the strength to see in the moral law a liberating truth a path of life pope john paul ii posted by unca 6 48 am 1 comments