Author Archives: Nanda

[060517] “School”: Valores y Puntos de Vista [Values and Viewpoints]

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(By request, a cross-post, from the main feed “over there”; Group Writing for June, 2017.  With appreciation and emendations…Enjoy!)

Greetings, fellow netizens of the good ship BDB! This episode came to mind recently as I read various posts and comments here and elsewhere detailing the sad state of civil society and the country at large. Conservatism/Classical Liberalism still holds up as a worldview; but the shared scaffolding holding it – and us – together is tottering. Mortar needs replaced at the foundation. What are the strongest ingredients? Let’s stroll down memory lane together, shall we?

Forty years ago this week, I had completed my junior year at the high school in my cocoon of a small town. My soon-to-finish years as an LHS Bulldog … Continue reading →

[060617] “Screwtape, Master-Tempter”, on the ‘Defeat’ of a Selfless Death.

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(From the main feed “over there”; with my permission: “Quote of the Day”)

What, then, of this final stripping, this complete cleansing? The more one thinks about it, the worse it becomes. He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor’s sentence, no nursing home, no operating theatre, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous liberation. One moment it seemed to be all our world; the scream of bombs, the fall of houses, the stink and taste of high explosive on the lips and in the lungs, the feet burning with weariness, the heart cold with horrors, the brain reeling, the legs aching; next moment all this was gone, gone like a bad dream, never again to be of any account….How all his doubts became, in the … Continue reading →

Tip Jar

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A word of thanks to BDB (otherwise known as Beloved Admin) for his gracious and prompt hospitality here!

I put it before the quorum: Is there any sentiment (other than mine in the affirmative) around the notion of a “tip jar” being passed in aid of effort being expended on our behalf?  Please advise.

Having heard from Beloved Admin in the negative, I withdraw the suggestion, and reiterate my willingness to be of assistance in any way of which I am capable.  Again, B-Z, Shipmate!  Long may we sail!