My dad wrote a novel called Mount Wonder. It’s a romance based on his personal experiences in the Integrated Humanities Program (IHP) at KU in the 70’s. Given how influential that program has been for American Catholicism and with all of the issues in academia today, and because it’s a totally wild adventure, you’ll enjoy […]
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Mount Wonder – a novel inspired by IHP
15
Dec 2022
By PB
Category: Adventure, Aesthetics, Albert Bloch, Art, Artist, beauty, Brideshead Revisited, Catholic community, Catholic Thinker, Catholics, Clear Creek Monastery, Creative Writing, Culture, Dennis Quinn, Dr. John Senior, Dr. Quinn, Dr. Senior, Eccentric People, Education, English Professor, Evelyn Waugh, faith, Faith & Reason, feelings, Fontgombault, Freshman year, friends&family, God and stuff, Good Artists Borrow Great Artists Steal, Great Books, Higher Education, IHP, It Is What It Is, Kansas University, KU, Liberal Arts, Literature, Mark Van Doren, Monks, Novels, Philosophy, poetic knowledge, professors, Recommendations, Religion, Restoration of Catholic Culture, Restoration of Christian Culture, Ring by Spring, Scott Bloch, Senior Year, Sexual Tension, She was HOT too, shiny things, Shout-Outs, Smoking, Summer reading, Teaching, Theology, Thomas Aquinas, Tragedy, Truth, Twenty-Somethings trying to find out the meaning of life, vignettes, vino, Western Civilization, Wine, wisdom, Women, Wonder, Writer
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A review of The Hobbit worth reading
22
Dec 2012
By PB
My soon to be brother in law, Joseph Simmons wrote a very insightful and hilarious review of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit. A Long Expected Failure [Spoiler Alert…well kindof…you have read the Hobbit, haven’t you???]
Category: Adventure, film, Journeying, JRR Tolkein, Novels, Out of Control, Pedantriactivity
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Tags: Culture, Dramatic Art, Humor, Literature
Another Suggestion
13
Oct 2012
By Chris Petter
Dappled Things, a little magazine that I think showed up on this blog when Andrew Smith’s work was in it, features another artist that might be familiar. It’s worth a look.
Category: A Christian Poet in the Modern World, A Draught of Vintage, A Fair Wind, Adventure, Aesthetics, Alchemy, Alcohol, Alfred Lord Tennyson, allegory, Alt-Country, Alumni, America, Andrew Lytle, Andrew Wilson Smith, Andy Goldsworthy, Animals, Anne Lorimer, Ansel Adams, Anthony Hopkins, anti-slavery, Antoine Dodson, Aphorisms, Aporia, Architecture, are we human or are we dancer, Aristocracy, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Arnolfini Wedding, Art, art lecture series, beauty, Cap Bar, Car problems, Car Repairs, Caravaggio, Carcinogins, Catholic community, Catholic Schools, Catholic Thing, Catholic Thinker, Catholic University, Catholics, cats, celebrities, cell phones are taking over, Charcoal, Charity Week, Charter School, Chartres, Chastity, Cheers to Landon Donovan and USA World Cup action, divinity, domestication, Dominicans, Don Quixote, Dostoevsky, Doug Keck, Downtown, Dr. Cowan, Dr. Curtsinger, Dr. Davies, Dr. Dre, Dr. Hanssen, Dr. James Taylor, Dr. James Wilson, Dr. John Senior, Dr. Louise Cowan, Dr. Maurer, Dr. Quinn, Dr. Rosemann, Dr. Senior, Dr. Sommerfeldt, Dr. Swietek, feelings, fellowship, film, Final Judgment, Fine Art, First Friday, First Things, fish shirt, Flannel, Folk Music, Gillian Welch, Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride, Glendale Preparatory Academy, Global Warming, Go USA, God and stuff, Good Artists Borrow Great Artists Steal, Good News, goodness, groundhog, Growth, Grumble, Guacamole, Haggadah, Haiku Palindrome, hands, Happiness, Happy Birthday, Hark A Vagrant, Hopkins, Hotness, How did you first hear of Eminem?, Hyperbole, I brought up the Pixies, I don't tag things because tagging is lame, Inn, integritas, interdependence of the soul and body, international day, invitation, Irish Music, Irony, Irving Renaissance, It Is What It Is, It's (not) too late to apologize, It's Really Late, Jerry, love, love as discovery, Love Language, Love Triangle, Ludacris, Luke Cully is a God among men, Lux, Lying, Machiavelli, MacPherson's Rant, mine's wierd, Miner's Lullaby, Minnesota, Misko, mix, Modern Art, Modernism, Monasticism, Monks, Morality, Music, netflix instant, netflix movie, netflix new, netflix videos, New Hampshire, New Orleans, New Soul, New St. Greg's, New Years, Nick Klein, Pequod, peregrine falcons having sex, Performing Arts, Perspective, Peter Bloch, Peter Bloch Art, Peter Bloch loves John Sercer a lot, Peter Hilaire Bloch Studio, Peter Kane Loves too much, Peter Kane TGIT, Peter Kane's twin, Peter's Beach, Phat Smith, Philosophy, Poetry, Protestants, prudence, Psalm 113, Psalms, Psychosocial, pueblos, Quincy House, Quirkiness, Ron Paul, Roommate Dinner, Ruby Tuesday, Rugby, Russia, Ryan Adams, Ryan Bingham, S.T., Sacred Art, Sancho Panza, Southern Agrarian, Southern Rock, Spagetti, Spain, speculation, Sports, squirrels, St. Augustine, St. Gregory's Academy, worms, Write something so that I can judge you, Xenephon, Xenophon, Young'n Musician
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