"To be interested in the changing seasons is...a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."

- George Satayana, "The Life of Reason"



Ok, fine...I'll accept that summer is over already. After all, it was a beautiful fall weekend.

Quotation for Tuesday, October 25, 2005:

"Why don't they teach logic at these schools? There are only three possibilities. Either your sister is telling lies, or she is mad, or she is telling the truth. You know she doesn't lie and it is obvious she is not mad. For the moment then and unless any further evidence turns up, we must assume that she is telling the truth."

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
(C. S. Lewis)

Personal Mobility Vehicles...



Transportation of the future? We shall see.

Quotation for Friday, October 21, 2005:

"How could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back -- if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory?"

Out of the Silent Planet

Quotation for Saturday, October 15, 2005:

"All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than he looked for."

Perelandra
(C. S. Lewis)

Carnegie Hall, here I come

The latest news is...
In April, I am going to be singing in the Isaac Stern Auditorium...in Carnegie Hall! My friend, Jim, and I are signed up to participate in the MidAmerica choral concert series with none other than the famous John Rutter. We'll either be performing his "Magnificat" or a Mozart Requiem. Besides rehearsals and the concert itself, we'll do some sight seeing and go on a midnight cruise around Manhattan after the concert. And the family's coming along!

Word of the Day

effulgence \i-FUL-juhn(t)s\, noun:

The state of being bright and radiant; splendor; brilliance.

The purity of his private character gave effulgence to his public virtues.
--Congressman Henry Lee's Eulogy for George Washington, 1799

The setting sun as usual shed a melancholy effulgence on the ruddy towers of the Alhambra.
--Washington Irving, The Alhambra