Randy | November 24, 2013
News coverage of the so called “knockout game” should have your blood boiling by now. This was inspired by it, although you are cautioned not to take it as a template for, or recommendation of, vigilante justice. Just stay aware and always strive to ready yourself to do what needs doing, in all things. The […]
Randy | November 19, 2013
Thanks once again to the unflagging vigilance of doppelgänger “Uncle Jim” Keating, I found myself laughing my way this morning through the brilliant work of Swedish Artist Andreas Englund – specifically his growing series of oil paintings depicting, “… the candidly humorous life of an anonymous superhero who has probably seen better days. Though he […]
Randy | November 17, 2013
Beyond the announcement of his birth, I still haven’t given you my complete perspective on the experience of bringing Baby LFM into the world, but that day will come. Some of it will no doubt be revealed in snippets sprinkled here and there in items written here by either Mrs. LFM or me, and still […]
Randy | November 11, 2013
“It takes no more than one generation of removal in time to distance human understanding from any heretofore common experience, no matter how horrific, and history has shown that people can function through pretty much anything, using it as a motivation for improvement (As Winston Churchill said, “If you are going through hell, keep going.”) […]
Randy | October 31, 2013
Hallowe’en has come, and with it the 5th anniversary of one of the greatest moments in my life – the day in 2008 when Mrs. LFM and I were married. We’re big on the anniversaries here, and so too are the forces of Nature that surround us it would seem, for many of ours coincide […]
Randy | October 29, 2013
Back on Day 13 I made reference to The Order of the Good Death, the mission statement of which is, in part: The Order is about making death a part of your life. That means committing to staring down your death fears- whether it be your own death, the death of those you love, the […]
Randy | October 27, 2013
On the heels of yesterdays Dark Sentiment that spoke of magickal invisibility rings and the weakness of Man in favour of evil doing in the face of certain – or at least perceived – anonymity, today I present something a bit more uplifting. A School History of England was written by C.R.L.Fletcher and Rudyard Kipling, […]
Randy | October 26, 2013
I believe in the spirit of Man as well as the matter. I have seen great courage in men, and women, too;seen them do great things for each other, for their nations, for the world, with a kind of selfless vision that cannot be accounted for by the base, brute self-interest of the body. But […]
Randy | October 24, 2013
Let’s begin today’s Dark Sentiment with a word from Agony, courtesy of the inimitable Katy Towell. A bit of shameless self-promotion on the part of Agony, I agree. We all know that human suffering, as rivetingly horrible as it may be to those experiencing it, and as flavour enhancing as it may be to bystanders […]
Randy | October 23, 2013
In 1890, American artist Edwin Romanzo Elmer (1850–1923) painted the family portrait that is the subject of today’s Dark Sentiment. It depicts the artist, his wife, and their daughter Effie, who died shortly before it was painted. Even a cursory examination reveals the mother to be shrouded in shadow while the child and everything associated […]