because life is too short
St. Augustine once famously commented that singing a hymn is like “praying twice.” I’m no theologian, and am therefore ill-equipped to proffer a theological explanation for the case; but my heart tells me that it is so. For there are songs, sacred songs, hymns, prayers put to music, that are so beautiful, that our hearts [...]
My middle child is “high-functioning” autistic. One of the (many) interesting things about him is that he gets little “obsessions”—fierce interests in certain, often obscure, subjects that can last for months, even years. Around the time of his eighteenth birthday, my son’s obsession-du-jour was 1990s Westerns, a subgenre of a classic genre (Westerns) which has [...]
[See also this post on the movie soundtrack by Patrick Doyle and We Few, We Happy Few] by Debra Murphy Seeing as how the Shakespeare bug has bitten almost every member of Clan Murphy, I am frequently asked by friends (and readers of Bardolatry) how best to 1) introduce oneself to the Bard, particularly in the [...]
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