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Welcome to the blog
Let’s talk. And as the walrus says, about everything and anything as our fancy takes us—style for every day, the art and satisfaction of running a comfortable and welcoming home, the joy and work of entertaining at home, politics from a centre-right perspective…
…and even about what I do for a living: writing & rewriting, editing & proofreading technical documents, website text, promotional materials, novels and memoirs. In short, when getting the words right matters, Editor’s Ink is there to help.
“ ‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax―
Of cabbages—and kings―
And why the sea is boiling hot―
And whether pigs have wings.’ ”
The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
Three good movies & a play
Like so much of our current fiction, postmodern angst and bleakness has leached the meaning and joy out of a night at the movies or the theatre. But in the midst of the drek, there’s still a few good movies and plays, even if one has to go back to the archives to find...
Four good books
When I am beset with anguish and worry about our Western civilization being gored, maybe fatally, by the leftist cant of equality, I console myself with Plato’s (424-347 BC) lament: “What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey...
Reality, according to Lewis & Rovelli
Introducing the thinkers In the search for meaning we humans constantly engage in, I decided to juxtapose two views—C.S. Lewis’s Apologetics: Imagination and Reason, as presented by Hillsdale College in an online course (ref. 1), and Carlo Rovelli’s Reality Is Not...
A look back, a look ahead
It’s always interesting where thoughts take you. When I started this blog, my plan was to follow my thoughts and, like a good conversation, let them take me where they would. So after 24 entries and the beginning of a new year—September is the true start of the year...