The story I have to tell here goes back nearly 15 years now, which astonishes me. My memories of that time are still razor sharp, time has had no power to dull them, but I must say they are not much in the front of my mind now, lurking rather nearer the back part of the mental storage unit. Since developing the idea of doing this blog the intent to write about my experience [...]
May 2018 Thoughts about the dichotomy between individual and collective have been bashing about in my head lo these many years, so it's time to get some of them down in black and white and see how they look in their externalized form. Here goes ... We're all individuals and we're all part of the collective which is global humankind. The conflict between those two levels of reality has been, for me at least, worrying [...]
May 2018 Carl Friedrich Gessel (1724 - 1793) You just never know when it will happen. Two days ago I was futzing around in YouTube looking for Baroque music by the Goldberg Baroque Ensemble when I came across a video I hadn't seen before, despite having searched the group several times. It must have been added recently. Here's the title: Gessel [XVIII Jhd.] : zur Himmelfahr[t] Christi Vater ich will, dass wo ich bin, BG PAN Ms.Cath.f. [...]
May 2018 Miagao Facade There it is in all its glory, the UNESCO World Heritage Site church in Miagao. For those of you not in the know, Miagao is a small town 47 km (29 miles) west of Iloilo city on the island of Panay. Miagao is the only historical church in all the Philippines outside Luzon to carry the UNESCO site designation, so it is arguably and justifiably a Big Deal. [...]