The Blog from the Core http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/ America's Small-Town Weblog en-us 2008-12-01T11:57:00-05:00 2008-12-01T12:06:30-05:00 Message for Catholic Bloggers from John Mallon John Mallon e-mails today. + + + + + John Mallon is trying to assemble an email list of Catholic... http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/2008_12/ind_005620.html Broken Alabaster A lovely new Catholic group weblog.... http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/2008_11/ind_005619.html "Winter" Random Poetry List XCII A wrinkled, crabbed man they picture thee, Old Winter, with a rugged beard as gray As... http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/2008_11/ind_005618.html The Four Freedoms Thanksgiving Day 2008 American artist and illustrator Norman Rockwell painted The Four Freedoms, 1943, in response to President Franklin D.... http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/2008_11/ind_005617.html "Only Heaven is Given Away" Random Poetry List XCI I bought a gay-roofed house upon a sunny hill, Where heaven is very close to earth... http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/2008_11/ind_005616.html Victory in Iraq Day "Several people have written in to ask what is significant about November 22; why was it chosen as the... http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/2008_11/ind_005614.html The Darkness of the Year III Today begins the longest two months of the year: the winter soltice is a month away.... http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/2008_11/ind_005613.html "On the Grasshopper and Cricket" http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/2008_11/ind_005612.html "Autumn Chant" http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/2008_11/ind_005611.html John B. Tabb Catholic convert, priest, and great poet John Banister Tabb died 99 years ago today, November 19, 1909. Google Books has... http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/2008_11/ind_005610.html "Seeds" http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/2008_11/ind_005609.html Catherine Baker Knoll, RIP Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor, Catherine Baker Knoll, died, Nov. 12. I met her four years ago when she attended my church's... http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/2008_11/ind_005608.html Why Do I Get the Feeling We're Watching a 1950s Sci-Fi Flick? We find out, yesterday, that the must-pass-now or Earth-will-implode legislation — the "bailout" of last month — was not implemented... http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/2008_11/ind_005607.html Michael Crichton, RIP Author Michael Crichton died last week. In a speech, April 26, 2002, he wrote about speculation dominating contemporary media: ....... http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/2008_11/ind_005606.html I Was Wrong! I guess that's why nobody pays me to do this. :-) God bless America.... http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/2008_11/ind_005605.html