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Found on my Thanksgiving walk/drive: neat little bricked-up Victorian oddity near the Cynwyd Trail in Lower Merion. I'm guessing this is the original cemetery chapel, since it is just up a short road from a train depot. Did not have the guts to squeeze through the one window knocked open, but glimpsed the arches inside.
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the fences that you cannot climb
With the hazy idea of getting out of my career rut by writing Something about what I know (history and education) I started reading Keith Jenkins' Re-thinking History at bedtime. It's a short read, but provocative. The argument is that really historians are not trying to (a la Collingwood) reconstruct mind, but to evaluate traces of the past; the ( Read more... ) -
Fielding Mellish, ladies and gentlemen
So I was in New York for the staff retreat, at the godforsaken Hudson Hotel, and I woke up early on Thursday thinking I should really find a place to say kaddish for my dad. (You're supposed to find a prayer service for this every day for a year after the death.) But the options, without prior planning, were not great: all the Conservative ( Read more... ) -
abandon hope yadda yadda
Once upon a time, children, LiveJournal-land was among the fairest of realms, abounding in posts of great wit, humor, and insight, and all the world came to gather its finest of pearls. Alas, one dark day the land was invaded by the hordes of bosses, co-workers, and (soon to be ex-) wives and husbands. Now LiveJournal-land lies desolate, bereft of ( Read more... ) -
on the occasion of being stuck in las vegas on a work conference for four days
the human detritus
of at least four continents
flows around me
the profusion of
colorful tattoos
eighties music
young women in fedoras
margaritaville tee shirts
while I contemplate
the meaning
of life
revealed to me
in a piece of
chocolate croissant bread pudding
at the buffet
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the kicker
So I made a nifty Flickr set of the vacation photos. I know, it starts off boring like most vacation slideshows, but I did find a fair number of current vs. 1960s photos of the Fallsview and Nevele rooms, mostly grabbed off of post cards on eBay and the like. I also included some of the casino-promoting signage and plenty of ruins ( Read more... ) -
mini-moon, part 2
E really enjoyed her massage, so we headed out to Sam's Point Preserve, famous for Venkeeterskillmerdingerwing Falls (approximately) and ice caves. We hiked for an hour past some spectacular vistas and a landscape that was very much like Maine, complete with scrubby pine, blueberry bushes, and sweet fern.
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Mini-moon, part 1
S and her parents had been saying for some weeks that they wanted the kids to come the day after school ended, which was Tuesday. Of course this kept shifting and threatening not to happen, but in the meantime I decided E and I should take the opportunity for a mini-honeymoon (minimoon) if it did. And then the kennel decided the day before that ( Read more... )