Adam J Taylor

I’m not a giant space geek, but Shuttle landings never...

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:36:12 +0000

I’m not a giant space geek, but Shuttle landings never cease to amaze me.

"Being holy, becoming and being a saint, does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not..."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:36:20 +0000

“Being holy, becoming and being a saint, does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious, or being religious at all. It means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort. It does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human. It does not mean being otherworldly, but it means being deeply implicated in the practical existence of this world without succumbing to this world or any aspect of this world, no matter how beguiling.”

- William Stringfellow

At peak time on a Sunday evening! Are you kidding me BBC?

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:42:00 +0000

At peak time on a Sunday evening! Are you kidding me BBC?

"We make his love too narrow By false limits of our own And we magnify his strictness With zeal he..."

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:06:17 +0000

“We make his love too narrow
By false limits of our own
And we magnify his strictness
With zeal he will not own.”

- “There’s wideness in God’s Mercy” — Frederick William Faber

These Google Search Stories are rather sweet.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:54:16 +0000

These Google Search Stories are rather sweet.

Aping The Bullingdon Club on the steps of Keele Hall

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:50:42 +0000

Aping The Bullingdon Club on the steps of Keele Hall

Here's THE GAME: Grab the book nearest you. Right now. • Turn to page 56. • Find the fifth sentence. • Reblog these instructions & post that sentence • Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book.

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:49:59 +0000

Here's THE GAME: Grab the book nearest you. Right now. • Turn to page 56. • Find the fifth sentence. • Reblog these instructions & post that sentence • Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book.:

somethingofadreamer:

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“Trust in the people and things you love for they will be a constant in your life”.

(Dear Me: A Letter to my Sixteen-Year-Old Self, Edited by Joseph Galliano)

“Irregular hamlets and individual cottages developed, and from all accounts the area was industrialised but still relatively pleasant; relative that is to the burgeoning Black Country towns beyond the hill with their dark, smoky and overcrowded squalor.” — Entry for Brierley Hill in A Guide to Staffordshire and The Black Country, The Potteries and The Peak.

Love my parents’ new house. Love the Aga even more.

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:00:32 +0000

Love my parents’ new house. Love the Aga even more.

Glum Councillors: Here we see Cllr Nick with cheery...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:25:30 +0000

Glum Councillors:

Here we see Cllr Nick with cheery candidate Gail Coleshill complaining about a missing section of yellow lines “allowing cars to park and reduce carriageway width - preventing lorries from passing” - despite the fact …er …that there are no parked cars and … er … a lorry seems to be passing!

Very proud to see my good friend Nick star in the fantastic Glum Councillors blog. Keep up the good work!

The tomb of The Unknown Warrior, this Armistice Day ...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:45:00 +0000

The tomb of The Unknown Warrior, this Armistice Day

“They buried him among the kings, because he had done good toward God and His house.”

— Inscription adapted from 2 Chronicles 24:16

Dear Nan - Extract from BBC Radio 4’s iPM segment on war...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:42:00 +0000

Dear Nan - Extract from BBC Radio 4’s iPM segment on war letters.

Last week BBC Radio 4 broadcast a set of moving letters and messages, sent in by listeners, from loved ones and relatives sent away to war. Covering conflicts from WWI to Afghanistan they all resonate with common themes: gallows humour, comradeship, duty. This letter - from a young soldier to his grandmother - particularly struck me.

Lincoln Castle and Cathedral - Autostitched

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:59:28 +0000

Lincoln Castle and Cathedral - Autostitched

Jews House. Lincoln.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:35:46 +0000

Jews House. Lincoln.

"Why should I seek? I am the same as He. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:23:15 +0000

“Why should I seek?
I am the same as He.
His essence speaks through me.
I have been looking for myself!”

- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi

"Britain is like a geological Dr Who: It’s very old, it’s been to a lot of places, and..."

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:30:26 +0000

“Britain is like a geological Dr Who: It’s very old, it’s been to a lot of places, and it’s seen a lot of things”

- In Our Time The geological formation of Britain. BBC Radio 4. 22 October 3998

"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days—three such days with..."

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:33:38 +0000

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days—three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”

- John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, July 1, 1819

"There’s no point in making a square heart."

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:37:25 +0100

“There’s no point in making a square heart.”

- PhD quote of the day from Prof. Alicia El Haj. (via regenmed)

12minds: Damien Hirst, St. Sebastian, Exquisite Pain via I...

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:07:42 +0100

12minds:

Damien Hirst, St. Sebastian, Exquisite Pain

via

I have a little bit of a soft spot for representations of St. Sebastian, even those bordering on the blasphemous.

"Adopt the correct attitude towards undergraduates. This is a complicated mixture of pity, disdain,..."

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:47:36 +0100

“Adopt the correct attitude towards undergraduates. This is a complicated mixture of pity, disdain, condescension, benevolent indulgence and complete indifference. Don’t try to be like them, in any way. Don’t attempt to talk to them about the new Arctic Killers or Snow Monkeys song. The main point is that, at all times, you should mask your seething envy of their youth, freedom, good looks and future options.”

- Patrick Tomlin (via Regen Med)

1959 Chevrolet Bel Air Vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu crash test....

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:31:00 +0100

1959 Chevrolet Bel Air Vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu crash test. (via @bobbyllew)