Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on July 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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In the age of email and voice mail, a hand-written note is perhaps more powerful than ever.
Crane & Co. delivers a classy, silver-on-white, engraved medium for saying ‘thank you’ that is just the thing for somebody who has done more than opened a door for you twice but less than buying you a new car.
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Posted in reseña, tagged fauna on July 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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This finely produced University of Texas hardback is not your typical off-the-rack ‘What’s that bird?’ book.
What bird book do you know that begins with such picturesque scene-setting: ‘It is 6:30 a.m. in late April: a strange assortment of liquid chirps, chortles, and muffled yodels threads the dimness about to be burnished. In a nearby yaupon, a cardinal hammers bellow chinks into the still-black earth. Overhead, Purple Martins lance dawn—expressing their invisible presence through these baubles of sound that hang, as do the minstrels, in the dew-rich air.’
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My work demands a lot of interpersonal contact, face-to-face, over-the-phone, and written. Recently I have moved the more intimate of these communications off the electronic impersonality of email and onto quality stationery. At the same time, I’ve bought two fountain pens, my first ever, combining this black Cross Century II with its silver-and-gold twin. One stays at the office and one by my writing desk here at home.
In the mix, I find that I’m discovering a new art form and means of personal expression. Always an illegible writer, the stationery and the fine pen slow me down just enough to realize that I actually *can* write. (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on July 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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My work demands a lot of interpersonal contact, face-to-face, over-the-phone, and written. Recently I have moved the more intimate of these communications off the electronic impersonality of email and onto quality stationery. At the same time, I’ve bought two fountain pens, my first ever, combining this polished chrome Cross Century II with its black-and-gold twin. One stays at the office and one by my writing desk here at home. (more…)
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Among the constellation of golf magazines, Golf World is the one that isn’t straining to be a lifestyle magazine with golf thrown in. (more…)
Posted in reseña on July 30, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Debby Boone comes across on this CD as one classy lady, from the stunning cover photo to the lush alto with which she handles a tenspot of well-selected traditional hymns. The orchestration is what you’d expect from a member of the Boone family: expert, spare with occasional flourishes, from time to time a jostling with the edge of Toomuchness, arrangements that are satisfying without being remarkable. (more…)
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Rivers of Joy, a live worship CD recorded in Colorado Springs and led by Don Moen, features a highly-trained Big Choir, an interesting solo or two, audience participation, and the appearance of spontaneity. (more…)
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House and Garden is a big, beautiful, in-your-face collection of colors and designs for the well-heeled reader without children in diapers or other unstylish impediments to the concept of home as castle. (more…)
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Golf Digest is the big daddy of a well-populated family of golf publications. It’s self-styled tag line–‘The #1 Golf Publication’–is well-earned. (more…)
Posted in clarity, denkschrift, missio dei, reseña on July 30, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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EMQ is a quarterly publication out of Wheaton College’s Billy Graham Center that is perhaps best described as a periodical written by and for missionaries and practitioners of Christian mission. Its articles tend towards the pragmatic and away from the theoretical, in contrast by way of example with the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. (more…)
