Rainy Days and Mondays: Karen Carpenter’s effervescense

Karen Carpenter ~ Rainy Days and Mondays

It’s yet another wet, gloomy day here on the Wet Coast, and a friend of mine mentioned that the rainy days depress her. This song came immediately to mind… Growing up I was never much of a pop music fan, particularly the easy listening stuff my parents favoured. As a […]

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Beauty, Cathedrals, Purpose: The Pillars of the Earth

St. Denis Cathedral, Paris, France

It wasn’t very far into Ken Follet’s, The Pillars of the Earth before I understood what might be enthralling the people who’ve been telling me I should read it. “Because it will be beautiful,” Tom the Builder answered Prior Philip. By beautiful Tom didn’t mean simply pretty, or artful. He […]

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