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The yesterday cloth never smile,
To-day- goes drudging through the while,
Yet in the name of Godhead, I
The morrow front and can defy ;
Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,
Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
Ah me ! it was my childhood's thought,
If He should make my web a blot
On life's fair picture of delight,
My heart's content would find it right.
But 0, these waves and leaves, –
When happy, stoic Nature grieves, –
No human speech so beautiful
As their murmurs mine to lull.
On this altar God hath built
I lay- my vanity and guilt;
Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,
Hearing as now the lofty dirge
Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,
Nature's funeral high and dim, –
Sable pageantry of clouds,
Mourning summer laid in shrouds.
Many a day- shall dawn and die,
Many an angel wander by,
And passing, light my- sunken turf,
Moist perhaps by ocean surf,
Forgotten amid splendid tombs,
Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms,
On earth I dream;- I die to be:
Time! shake not thy bald head at me.
I challenge thee to hurry past,
Or for my turn to thy too fast.
I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life. It is a representative life, such as could hardly have appeared out of New England ; of an age now past, and of which I think no types survive. Perhaps I deceive myself and overestimate its interest. It has to me a value like that which many readers find in Madame Guyon, in Rahel, in Eugenie de Guerin, but it is purely original and hardly admits of a duplicate. Then it is a fruit of Calvinism and New England, and marks the precise time when the power of the old creed yielded to the influence of modern science and humanity.
I have found that I could only bring you this portrait by selections from the diary of my heroine, premising a sketch of her time and place. I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country girl, poor, solitary, – `a goody' as she called herself, – growing from youth to age amid slender opportunities and usually very humble company.
Mary Moody Emerson was born just before the outbreak of the Revolution. When introduced to Lafayette at Portland, she told him that she was " arms " at the Concord Fight. Her father, the minister of Concord, a warm patriot in 1775, went as a chaplain to the American army at Ticonderoga : he carried his infant daughter, before he went, to his mother in Malden and told her to keep the child until he returned. He died at Rutland, Vermont, of army-fever, the next year, and Mary remained at Malden with her grandmother, and, after her death, with her father's sister, in whose house she grew up, rarely seeing her brothers and sisters in Concord. This aunt and her husband lived on a farm, were getting old, and the husband a shiftless, easy man. There was plenty of work for the little niece to do day by day, and not always bread enough in the house.
One of her tasks, it appears, was to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff, who might come to confiscate the spoons or arrest the uncle for debt. Later, another aunt, who had become insane, was brought hither to end her days. More and sadder work for this young girl. She had no companions, lived in entire solitude with these old people, very rarely cheered by short visits from her brothers and sisters. Her mother had married again, – married the minister who succeeded her husband in the parish at Concord, [Dr. Ezra Ripley,] and had now a young family growing up around her.
Her aunt became strongly attached to Mary, and persuaded the family to give the child up to her as a daughter, on some terms embracing a care of her future interests. She would leave the farm to her by will. This promise was kept ; she came into possession of the property many years after, and her dealings with it gave her no small trouble, though they give much piquancy to her letters iii after years. Finally it was sold, and its price in-vested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister, for many years. It was in a picturesque country, within sight of the White Mountains, with a little lake in front at the foot of a high hill called Bear Mountain. Not far from the house was a brook running over a granite floor like the Franconia Flume, and noble forests around. Every word she writes about this farm (" Elm Vale," Waterford,) her dealings and vexations about it, her joys and raptures of religion and Nature, interest like a romance, and to those who may hereafter read her letters, will make its obscure acres amiable.
In Malden she lived through all her youth and early womanhood, with the habit of visiting the families of her brothers and sisters on any necessity of theirs. Her good will to serve in time of sickness or of pressure was known to them, and promptly claimed, and her attachment to the youths and maidens growing up in those families was se-cure for any trait of talent or of character. Her sympathy for young people who pleased her was almost passionate, and was sure to make her arrival in each house a holiday.
Her early reading was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards, and always the Bible. Later, Plato, Plotinus, Marcus Antoninus, Stewart, Coleridge, Cousin, Harder, Locke. Madame De Stael, Channing, Mackintosh. Byron. No-body can read in her manuscript, or recall the conversation of old-school people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religions authority in their mind, and nowise the slight, merely entertaining quality of modern bards. And Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus,- how venerable and organic as Nature they are in her mind! What a subject is her mind and life for the finest novel ! When I read Dante, the other day, and his paraphrases to signify with more adequateness Christ or Jehovah, whom do you think I was reminded of ? Whom but Mary Emerson and her eloquent theology? She had a deep sympathy with genius. When it was unhallowed, as in Byron, she had none the less, whilst she deplored and affected to denounce him. But she adored it when ennobled by character. She liked to notice that the greatest geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence. She wished you to scorn to shine. "My opinion," she writes, (is) that a mind like Byron's would never be satisfied with modern Unitarianism, – that the fiery depths of Calvinism, its high and mysterious elections to eternal bliss, beyond angels, and all its attendant wonders would have alone been fitted to fix his imagination."
Her wit was so fertile, and only used to strike, that she never used it for display, any more than a wasp would parade his sting. It was ever the will and not the phrase that concerned her. Yet certain expressions, when they marked a memorable state of mind in her experience, recurred to her afterwards, and she would vindicate herself as having said to Dr. R–or Uncle L so and so, at such a period of her life. But they were in-tensely true when first spoken. All her language was happy, but inimitable, unattainable by talent, as if caught from some dream. She calls herself
the puny pilgrim, whose sole talent is sympathy." " I like that kind of apathy that is a triumph to overset."
She writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833: -"I could never have adorned the garden. If I had been in aught but dreary deserts, I should have idolized my friends, despised the world and been haughty. I never expected connections and matrimony. My taste was formed in romance, and I knew I was not destined to please. I love God and his creation as I never else could. I scarcely feel the sympathies of this life enough to agitate the pool. This in general, one case or so excepted, and even this is a relation to God through you. 'T was so in my happiest early days, when you were at my side."
Destitution is the Muse of her genius, – Destitution and Death. I used to propose that her epitaph should be: here lies the angel of Death." And wonderfully as she varies and poetically repeats that image in every page and day, yet not less fondly and sublimely she returns to the other, – the grander of humility and privation, as thus ; "The chief witness which I have had of a Godlike principle of action and feeling is in the disinterested joy felt in others' superiority. For the love of superior virtue is mine own gift from God.-" Where were thine own intellect if others had not lived?
She had many acquaintances among the notables of the time ; and now and then in her migrations from town to town in Maine and Massachusetts, in search of a new boarding-place, discovered some preacher with sense or piety, or both. For on her arrival at any new home she was likely to steer first to the ministers house and pray his wife to take a boarder ; and as the minister found quickly that she knew all his books and many more, and made shrewd guesses at his character and possibilities, she would easily rouse his curiosity, as a per-son who could read his secret and tell him his fortune.
She delighted in success, in youth, in beauty, in genius, in manners. When she met a young per-son who interested her, she made herself acquainted and intimate with him or her at once, by sympathy, by flattery, by raillery, by anecdotes, by wit, by rebuke, and stormed the castle. None but was attracted or piqued by her interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names. She said she gave herself full swing in these sudden intimacies, for she knew she should disgust them soon, and resolved to have their best hours. " Society is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions." She surprised, attracted, chided and denounced her companion by turns, and pretty rapid turns. But no intelligent youth or maiden could have once met her without remembering her with interest, and learning something of value. Scorn trifles, lift your aims : do what you are afraid to do : sublimity of character must come from sublimity of motive : these were the lessons which were urged with vivacity, in ever new language. But if her companion was dull, her impatience knew no bounds. She tired presently of (lull conversations, and asked to be read to, and so disposed of the visitor. If the voice or the reading tired her, she would ask the friend if he or she would do an errand for her, and so dismiss them. If her companion were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with "
How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?"
"I was disappointed,". she writes, "in finding my little Calvinist no companion, a cold little thing who lives in society alone, and is looked up to as a specimen of genius. I performed a mission in secretly undermining his vanity, or trying to. Alas! never done but 1)y mortifying affliction." From the country she writes to her sister in town, You can-not help saying that my epistle is a striking specimen of egotism. To which I can only answer that, in the country, we converse so must more with ourselves, that we are almost led to forget every-body else. The very sound of your bells and the rattling of the carriages have a tendency to divert selfishness." " This seems a world rather of trying each others' dispositions than of enjoying each others' virtues."
She had the misfortune of spinning with a greater velocity than any of the other tops. She would tear into the chaise or out of it, into the house or out of it, into the conversation, into the thought, into the character of the stranger, – disdaining all the graduation by which her fellows time their steps : and though she might do very happily in a planet where others moved with the like velocity, she was offended here by the phlegm of all her fellow-creatures, and disgusted them by her impatience. She could keep step with no human being. Her nephew [ R. W. E.] wrote of her: I am glad the friendship with Aunt Mary is ripening. As by seeing a high tragedy, reading a true poem, or a novel like 'Corinne,' so, by society with her, one's mind is electrified and purged. She is no statute-book of practical commandments, nor orderly digest of any system of philosophy, divine or human, but a Bible, miscellaneous in its parts, but one in its spirit, wherein are sentences of condemnation, promises and covenants of love that make foolish the wisdom of the world with the power of God."
Our Delphian was fantastic enough, Heaven knows, yet could always be tamed by large and sincere conversation. Was there thought and eloquence, she would listen like a child. Her aspiration and prayer would begin, and the whim and petulance in which by diseased habit she had grown to indulge without suspecting it, was burned up in the glow of her pure and poetic spirit, which dearly loved the Infinite.
She writes : " August, 184 7 : Vale. – My oddities were never designed – effect of an uncalculating constitution, at first, then through isolation ; and as to dress, from duty. To be singular of choice, without singular talents and virtues, is as ridiculous as ungrateful." " It is so universal with all classes to avoid contact with me that I blame none. The fact has generally increased piety and self-love." " As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so have I wandered from the cradle over the apartments of social affections, or the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy, the recesses of ancient and modern lore. All say – Forbear to enter the pales of the initiated by birth, wealth, talents and patronage. I submit with delight, for it is the echo of a decree from above ; and from the highway hedges where I get lodging, and from the rays which burst forth when the crowd are entering these noble saloons, whilst I stand in the doors, I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor."
" To live to give pain rather than pleasure (the latter so delicious) seems the spider-like necessity of my being on earth, and I have gone on my queer way with joy, saying, " Shall the clay interrogate?" But in every actual case, 't is hard, and we lose sight of the first necessity, – here too amid works red with default in all great and grand and infinite aims. Yet with intentions disinterested, though uncontrolled by proper reverence for others."
When Mrs. Thoreau called on her one day, wearing pink ribbons, she shut her eyes, and so conversed with her for a time. By and by she said, " Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are shut." "Yes, Madam, I have observed it." " Perhaps you would like to know the reasons ? " " Yes, I should." " I don't like to see a person of your age guilty of such levity iii her dress."
When her cherished favorite, E. H., was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary feared they were lost, and found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them. The man went and returned saying that he could not find them. "Go and cry, ' Elizabeth ! ' " The man rather declined this service, as he did not know Miss II. She was highly offended, and exclaimed, "God has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow-creatures. Go instantly and call ' Elizabeth ' till you find them." The man went immediately, and did as he was bid, and having found them apologized for calling thus, by telling what Miss Emerson had said to him.
When some ladies of my acquaintance by an unusual chance found themselves in her neighbor-hood and visited her, I told them that she was no whistle that every mouth could play on, but a quite clannish instrument, a pibroch, for example, from which none but a native Highlander could draw music.
In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of " Paradise Lost," without covers or title-page, so that later, when she heard much of Milton and sought his work, she found it was her very book which she knew so well, – she was driven to find Nature her companion and solace. She speaks of " her at-tempts in Malden, to wake up the soul amid the dreary scenes of monotonous Sabbaths, when Nature looked like a pulpit."
" Malden, November 15th, 1805. – What a rich day, so fully occupied in pursuing truth that I scorned to touch a novel which for so many years I have wanted. How insipid is fiction to a mind touched with immortal views ! November 16th. – I am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn ; visited from necessity once, and again for books ; read Butler's Analogy ; commented on the Scriptures ; read in a little book, – Cicero's Letters, – a few : touched Shakspeare, – washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked. To-day cannot recall an error, nor scarcely a sacrifice, but more fulness of content in the labors of a day never was felt. There is a sweet pleasure in bending to circumstances while superior to them.
"Malden, September, 1807. – The rapture of feeling I would part from, for days more devoted to higher discipline. But when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author, – feels that it is related to him more than by any tics of Creation, – it exults, too fondly perhaps for a state of trial. But in dead of night, nearer morning, when the eastern stars glow or appear to glow with more indescribable lustre, a lustre which penetrates the spirit with wonder and curiosity, – then, however awed, who can fear? Since Sabbath, Aunt B—– [the insane aunt] was
brought here. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct perhaps triumphs over reason, and every dignified respect to herself, in her anxiety about recovery, and the smallest means connected. Not one wish of others detains her, not one care. But it alarms inc not, I shall delight to return to God. His name my fullest confidence. His sole presence ineffable pleasure.
I walked yesterday five or more miles, lost to mental or heart existence, through fatigue, – just fit for the society I went into, all mildness and the most commonplace virtue. The lady is celebrated for her cleverness, and she was never so good to mc. Met a lady in the morning walk, a foreigner, – conversed on the accomplishments of Miss T. My mind expanded with novel and innocent pleasure. Ah! were virtue, and that of dear heavenly meekness attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction ? But that is not the ease, I believe. A mediocrity does seem to me more distant from eminent virtue than the extremes of station ; though after all it must depend on the ma-ture of the heart. A mediocre mind will be de-ranged in either extreme of wealth or poverty, praise or censure, society or solitude. The feverish lust of notice perhaps in all these cases would injure the heart of common refinement and virtue."
Later she writes of her early days in Malden: " When I get a glimpse of the revolutions of nations – that retribution which seems forever going on in this part of creation, – I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in child-hood and since, from others, I felt that it was rather the order of things than their individual fault. — It was from being early impressed by my poor unpractical aunt, that Providence and Prayer were all in all. Poor woman ! Could her own temper in child-hood or age have been subdued, how happy for her-self, NN-ho had a warm heart ; but for me would have prevented those early lessons of fortitude, which her caprices taught me to practise. Had I prospered in life, what a proud, excited being, even to feverishness-, I might have been. Loving to shine, flattered and flattering, anxious, and wrapped in others, frail and feverish as myself."
She alludes to the early days of her solitude, sixty years afterward, on her own farm in Maine, speaking sadly the thoughts suggested by the rich autumn landscape around her " Ah! as I walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me, ' Even these leaves you use to think my better emblems have lost their charm on me too, and I weary of my pilgrimage, – tired that I must again be clothed in the grandeurs of winter, and anon be bedizened in flowers and cascades. Oh, if there be a power superior to we, – and that there is. my own dread fetters proclaim, – when will e let my lights go out, my tides cease to an eternal ebb? "Oh for transformation! I am not, infinite, nor have I power or will, but bound and imprisoned, the tool of mind, even of the beings feed and adorn. Vital, I feel not : not active, but passive, and cannot aid the creatures which seem my progeny, – myself. But you are ingrate to tire of me, now you want to look beyond. 'T was I who soothed your thorny childhood, though you knew me not, and you were placed in my most leafless waste. Yet 1 comforted thee when going on the daily errand, fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I led thee when thou knewest not a syllable of my active Cause, (any more than if it had been dead eternal matter,) to that Cause ; and from the solitary heart taught thee to say, at first womanhood, Alive with God is enough, – 't is rapture.' "
" This morning rich in existence ; the remembrance of past destitution in the deep poverty of my aunt, and her most unhappy temper ; of bitterer days of youth and age, when my senses and understanding seemed but means of labor, or to learn my own unpopular destiny, and that – but no more ; – joy, hope and resignation unite me to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything, and the darkest and lightest are alike welcome. Oh ! could this state of mind continue, death would not be longed for." " I felt, till above twenty years old. as though Christianity were as necessary to the world as existence ; – was ignorant that it was lately promulged, or partially received." Later: Could I have those hours in which in fresh youth I said, To obey God is joy, though there were no hereafter, I should rejoice, though returning to dust."
"Folly follows me as the shadow does the form. Yet my whole life devoted to find some new truth which will link me closer to God. And the simple principle which made me say, in youth and laborious poverty, that. should He make me a blot on the fair face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been equalled, though it returns in the long life of destitution like an Angel. I end days of fine health and cheerfulness without getting up-ward now. How did I use to think them lost ! If more liberal views of the divine government make me think nothing lost which carries me to His now hidden presence, there may be danger of losing and causing others the loss of that awe and sobriety so indispensable."
She was addressed and offered marriage by a man of talents, education and good social position, whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause and much to think, but after consideration she re-fused it, I know not on what grounds : but a few allusions to it in her diary suggest that it .was a religious act, and it is easy to see that she could hardly promise herself sympathy in her religious abandonment with any but a rarely-found partner.
"1807. Jan. 19, Malden [alluding to the sale of her farm]. Last night I spoke two sentences about that foolish place, which I most bitterly lament, – not because they were improper, but they arose from anger. It is difficult, when we have no kind of barrier, to command our feelings. But this shall teach me. It humbles me beyond anything I have met, to find myself for a moment affected with hope, fear, or especially anger, about interest. But I did overcome and return
kindness for the repeated provocations. What is it ? My uncle has been the means of lessening my property. Ridiculous to wound him for that. He was honestly seeking his ow a. But at last, this very night, the bargain is closed, and I am delighted with my-self : – my dear self has done well. Never did I so exult in a trifle. Happy beginning of my bar-gain, though the sale of the place appears to me one of the worst things for me at this time."
"Jan. 21. Weary at times of objects so tedious to hear and see. C) the power of vision, then the delicate power of the nerve which receives impressions from sounds ! If ever I am blest with a social life, let the accent be grateful. Could I at times be regaled with music, it would remind me that there are sounds. Shut up in this severe weather with careful, infirm, afflicted age, it is wonderful, my spirits : hopes I can have none. Not a prospect but is dark on earth, as to knowledge and joy from externals: but the prospect of a dying bed reflects lustre on all the rest.
"The evening is fine, but I dare not enjoy it, The moon and stars reproach me, because I had to do with mean tools. Should I take so much care to save a few dollars ? Never was I so much ashamed. Did I say with what rapture I might dispose of them to the poor? Pho! self-preservation, dignity, confidence in the future, contempt of trifles! Alas, I am disgraced. Took a momentary revenge on for worrying me."
" Jan. 30. I walked to Captain Dexter's. Sick. Promised never to put that ring on. Ended miserably the month which began so worldly.
It was the choice of the Eternal that gave the glowing seraph his joys, and to me my vile imprisonment. I adore Him. It was His will that gives my superiors to shine in wisdom, friendship, and ardent pursuits, while I pass my youth, its last traces, in the veriest shades of ignorance and complete destitution of society. I praise Him, though when my strength of body falters, it is a trial not easily described."
" True, I must finger the very farthing candle-ends, – the duty assigned to my pride ; and indeed so poor are some of those allotted to join me oil the weary needy path, that 't is benevolence enjoins selfdenial. Could I but dare it in the bread-and-water diet ! Could 1 but live free from calculation, as in the first half of life, when my poor aunt lived. I had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of earning my home. That ten dollars my dear father earned, and one hundred dollars remain, and I can't bear to take it, and don't know what to do. Yet I would not breathe to—or—my want.'T is only now that I would not let pay my hotel-bill. They have enough to do. Besides, it would send me packing to depend for anything. Better anything than dishonest dependence, which robs the poorer, and despoils friendship of equal connection."
In 1830, in one of her distant homes, she reproaches herself with some sudden passion she has for visiting her old home and friends in the city, where she had lived for a while with her brother [Mr. Emerson's father] and afterwards with his widow. " Do I yearn to be in Boston ? 'T would fatigue, disappoint ; I, who have so long despised means, w ho have always found it a sort of rebellion to seek them ? Yet the old desire for the worm is not so greedy as [mine] to find myself iii my old haunts."
1833. " The difficulty of getting places of low board for a lady, is obvious. And, at moments, I am tired out. Yet how independent, how better than to hang on friends ! And sometimes I fancy that I am emptied and peeled to carry some seed to the ignorant, which no idler wind can so well dispense." " Hard to contend for a health which is daily used in petition for a final close." " Am I, poor victim, swept on through the sternest ordinations of nature's laws which slay ? yet I 'll trust." " There was great truth in what a pious enthusiast said, that, if God should cast him into hell, he would yet clasp his hands around Him."
" Newburyport, Sept. 1822. High, solemn, entrancing noon, prophetic of the approach of the Presiding Spirit of Autumn. God preserve my reason! Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I have deserved nothing ; according to Adam Smith's idea of society, `done nothing ; ' doing nothing, never expect to : yet joying in existence, perhaps striving to beautify one individual of God's creation.
" Our civilization is not always mending our poetry. It is sauced and spiced with our complexity of arts and inventions, but lacks somewhat of the grander that belongs to a Doric and unphilosophical age. In a religious contemplative public it would have less outward variety, but simpler and grander means ; a few pulsations of created beings, a few successions of acts, a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us to talk of Time, make epochs, write histories, – to do more. – to date the revelations of God to man. But these lamps are held to measure out some of the moments of eternity, to divide the history of God's operations in the birth and death of nations, of worlds. It is a goodly name for our notions of breathing, suffering, enjoying, acting. We personify it. We call it by every name of fleeting, dreaming, vaporing imagery. Yet it is nothing. We exist in eternity. Dissolve the body and the night is gone, the stars are extinguished, and we measure duration by the number of our thoughts, bV the activity of reason, the discovery of truths, the acquirement of virtue, the approach to God. And the gray-headed god throws his shadows all around, and his slaves catch, now at this, now at that, one at the halo he throws around poetry, or pebbles, bugs, or bubbles. Sometimes they climb, sometimes creep into the meanest holes – but they are all alike in vanishing, like the shadow of a cloud."
To her nephew Charles: " War: what do I think of it ? Why in your ear I think it so much better than oppression that if it were ravaging the whole geography of despotism it would be an omen of high and glorious import. Channing paints its miseries, but does he know those of a worse war, – private animosities. pinching, bitter warfare of the human heart, the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which corrupts old worlds ? How much better, more honest, are storming and conflagration of towns! They are but letting blood which corrupts into worms and dragons. A war-trump would be harmony to the jars of theologians and statesmen such as the papers bring. It was the glory of the Chosen People, nay, it is said there was war in Heaven. War is among the means of discipline, the rough meliorators, and no worse than the strife with poverty, malice and ignorance. War devastates the conscience of men, yet corrupt peace does not less. And if you tell me of the miseries of the battle-field, with the sensitive Channing, (of whose love of life I am ashamed), what of a few days of agony, what of a vulture being the bier, tomb and parson of a hero, compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away ? For the widows and orphans- "Oh, I could give facts of the long-drawn years of imprisoned minds and hearts, which uneducated orphans endure!
"O Time! Thou loiterer. Thou. whose might has laid low the vastest and crushed the worm, restest on thy hoary throne, with like potency over thy agitations and thy graves. When will thy routines give way to higher and lasting institutions ? When thy trophies and thy name and all its wizard forms be lost in the Genius of Eternity ? In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no fantastic illusions, no riddles concealed by thy shrouds, none of thy Arachnean webs, which decoy and destroy. Hasten to finish thy motley work, on which frightful Gorgons are at play, spite of holy ghosts. 'T is already moth-eaten and its shuttles quaver, as the beams of the loom are shaken.
" Sat. 25. Hail requiem of departed Time! Never was incumbents funeral followed by expect-ant heir with more satisfaction. Yet not his hope is mine. For in the weary womb are prolific numbers of the same sad hour, colored by the memory of defeats in virtue, by the prophecy of others, more dreary, blind and sickly. Yet He who formed thy web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow, – labors, rather – evanescent efforts, which will wear like flowerets in brighter soils ; – has attuned his mind in such unison with the harp of the universe, that he is never without some chord of hope's music. 'T is not in the nature of existence, while there is a God, to be without the pale of excitement. When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds, and he adores the eternal purposes of Him who lifteth up and casteth down, bringeth to dust, and raiseth to the skies. 'T is a strange deficiency in Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology, when the moral constitution of the being for whom these contrivances were made is not recognized. The wonderful inhabitant of the building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out as to that part where the Creator had put his own lighted candle, placed a vice-gerent. Not to complain of the poor old earth's chaotic state, brought so near in its long and gloomy transmut- by the geologist. Yet its youthful charms as decked by the hand of Moses' Cosmogony, will linger about the heart, while Poetry succumbs to Science. Yet there is a sombre music in the whirl of times so long gone by. And the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the In-finite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry : – its oceans, when beating the symbols of ceaseless ages, than when covered with car-goes of war and oppression. How grand its preparation for souls, – souls who were to feel the Divinity, before Science had dissected the emotions, and applied its steely analysis to that state of being which recognizes neither psychology nor ele-
"September, 1836. Vale. The mystic dream which is shed over the season. 0, to dream more deeply ; to lose external objects a little more ! Yet the hold on them is so slight, that duty is lost sight of perhaps, at times. Sadness is better than walking talking acting somnambulism. Yes, this en-tire solitude with the Being who makes the powers of life ! Even Fame, which lives in other states of Virtue, palls. Usefulness, if it requires action, seems less like existence than the desire of being absorbed in God, retaining consciousness. Number the waste-places of the journey, – the secret martyrdom of youth, heavier than the stake, I thought, the narrow limits which know no outlet, the bitter dregs of the cup, – and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I love. The idea of being no mate for those intellectualists I've loved to ad-mire, is no pain. Hereafter the same solitary joy will go with me, were I not to live, as I expect, in the vision of the Infinite. Never do the feelings of the Infinite, and the consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance, harmonize so well as at this mystic season in the deserts of life. Contradictions, the modern German says, of the Infinite and finite."
I sometimes fancy I detect in her writings, a certain – shall I say – polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus, not at all spontaneous, but growing out of her respect to the Rev-elation, and really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being, assurance of whose direct dealing with her she incessantly invokes : for example, the parenthesis Saving thy presence, Priest and Medium of all this approach for a sinful creature! " Were it possible that the Creator was not virtually present with the spirits and bodies which He has made:- if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself, – I would hold on to the faith, that, at some moment of is existence, I was present : that, though cast from Him, my sorrows, my ignorance and meanness were a part of His plan ; my death, too, however long and tediously delayed to prayer, – was decreed, was fixed. "Oh how weary in youth – more so scarcely now, not when-ever I can breathe, as it seems,, the atmosphere of the "Omnipresence : then I ask not faith nor knowledge ; honors, pleasures, labors, I always refuse, compared to this divine partaking of existence ;-but how rare, how dependent on the organs through which the soul operates!
The sickness of the last week was fine medicine ; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual. I rose, -I felt that I had given to God more perhaps than an angel could, – had promised Him in youth that to be a blot on this fair world, at His command, would be acceptable. Constantly offer myself to continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of, with one proviso, – His agency. Yes, love Thee, and all Thou dost, while Thou sheddest frost and darkness on every path of mine."
For years she had her bed made in the form of a coffin ; and delighted herself with the discovery of the figure of a coffin made every evening on their sidewalk, by the shadow of a church tower which adjoined the house.
Saladin caused his shroud to be made, and carried it to battle as his standard. She made up her shroud, and death still refusing to come, and she thinking it a pity to let it lie idle, wore it as a night-gown, or a day-gown, nay, went out to ride in it, on horseback, in her mountain roads, until it was worn out. Then she had another made up, and as she never travelled without being provided for this dear and indispensable contingency, I believe she wore out a great many.
"1833. I have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying. In the lowest ebb of health nothing is ominous ; diet and exercise restore. So it seems best to get that very humbling business of insurance. I enter my dear sixty the last of this month." " 1835, June 16. Tedious indisposition ;- hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool, sweet grave. Now existence itself in any form is sweet. Away with knowledge ; – God alone. He communicates this our condition and humble waiting, or I should never perceive Him, Science, Nature, – 0, I've yearned to open some page ; – not now, too late. Ill health and nerves. O dear worms, -how they will at some sure time take down this tedious tabernacle, most valuable companions, instructors in the science of mind, by gnawing away the meshes which have chained it. A very Beatrice in showing the Paradise. Yes, I irk under contact with forms of depravity, while I am resigned to being nothing, never expect a pahn, a laurel, hereafter."
"1826, July. If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted, – were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion ? The vulture and crow would caw caw, and, unconscious of any deformity in the mutilated body, would relish their meal, make no grimace of affected sympathy, nor suffer any real compassion. I pray to die, though happier myriads and mine own companions press nearer to the throne. His coldest beam will purify and render me forever holy. Had I the highest place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy would be too strong for that rapt emotion, that severe delight which I crave ; nay for that kind of obscure virtue which is so rich to lay at the feet of the Author of morality. Those economists (Adam Smith) who say nothing is added to the wealth of a nation but what is dug out of the earth, and that, whatever disposition of virtue may exist, unless something is done for society, deserves no fame, – why I am content with such paradoxical kind of facts ; but one secret sentiment of virtue, disinterested (or perhaps not), is worthy, and will tell, iii the world of spirits, of God's immediate presence, more than the blood of many a martyr who has it not." " I have heard that the greatest geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence on the arts and sciences. I believe thus much, that their large perception consumed their egotism, or made it impossible for them to make small calculations."
" That greatest of all gifts, however small my power of receiving, – the capacity, the element to love the All-perfect, without regard to personal happiness : – happiness ? – 't is itself." She checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God ; – " I who never made a sacrifice to record, – I cowering in the nest of quiet for so many years ; – I indulge the delight of sympathizing with great virtues, – blessing their Original : Have I this right?" " While I am sympathizing in the government of God over the world, perhaps I lose nearer views. Well, I learned his existence a priori. No object of science or observation ever was pointed out to me by my poor aunt, but His Being and commands ; and oh how much I trusted Him with every event till I learned the order of human events from the pressure of wants."
" What a timid, ungrateful creature ! Fear the deepest pit-falls of age, when pressing on, in imagination at least, to Him with whom a day is a thou-sand years, – with whom all miseries and irregularities are conforming to universal good ! Shame on me who have learned within three years to sit whole days in peace and enjoyment without the least apparent benefit to any, or knowledge to my-self : – resigned, too, to the memory of long years of slavery passed in labor and ignorance, to the loss of that character which I once thought and felt so sure of, without ever being conscious of acting from calculation."
Her friends used to say to her, " I wish you joy of the worm." And when at last her release arrived, the event of her death had really such a comic tinge in the eyes of every one who knew her, that her friends feared they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they should for-get the serious proprieties of the hour.
She gave high counsels. It was the privilege of certain boys to have this immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood ; a blessing which nothing else in education could supply. It is frivolous to ask, – " And was she ever a Christian in practice ? " Cassandra uttered, to a frivolous, skeptical time, the arcana of the Gods : but it is easy to believe that Cassandra domesticated in a lady's house would have proved a troublesome boarder. Is it the less desirable to have the lofty abstractions because the abstractionist is nervous and irritable? Shall we not keep Flamsteed and Herschel in the observatory, though it should even be proved that they neglected to rectify their own kitchen clock? It is essential to the safety of every mackerel fisher that latitudes and longitudes should be astronomically ascertained ; and so every banker, shopkeeper and wood-sawyer has a stake in the elevation of the moral code by saint and prophet. Very rightly, then, the Christian ages, proceeding on a grand instinct, have said: Faith alone, Faith alone.


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Veterinarians donate vital supplies to coronavirus fight
Veterinary hospitals are donating breathing machines, masks, gowns and other vital equipment and supplies purchased with Fido in mind, but now being redeployed to help doctors fight the spread of COVID-19 among humans.
"We buy at the same stores," said Paul Lunn, dean of the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine in Raleigh, which on Monday turned over two full-service ventilators, 500 protective suits and 950 masks for use in area hospitals. "There's no difference in the equipment."
In response to a call last week by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue for materials to combat the pandemic, vet schools from North Carolina to Colorado to New York are stepping up.
There are 30 fully accredited veterinary medical schools in 26 states, according to the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges. Of those, 27 have veterinary teaching hospitals with comprehensive services treating everything from pet cats and dogs to horses and other large animals. Lunn said the schools have identified more than six dozen ventilators that could be commandeered for human treatment.
The 2009 outbreak of H1N1 influenza had veterinarians readying to help in this kind of emergency, he added: "This isn't the first time we've prepared for this, although it's the first time in my personal experience that we've actually had to pull the trigger."
Private institutions are also heeding the call.
Dr. Virginia Sinnott-Stutzman, chair of the Infection Control Committee at Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston, said members of the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society have identified about 100 full-service ventilators that can provide long term breathing support. She said there are also hundreds more relatively simple anesthesia ventilators—"basically like an automated hand squeezing a bag … to get air into the patient"—nationwide that could be pressed into service, though it amounts to just a dent in the overall need with officials saying tens thousands of ventilators are needed in New York alone.
"While that may not seem like a lot, if it's, you know, your grandmother, spouse that gets that ventilator, we're hoping it can save a life," she said.
For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death. The vast majority of people recover.
Experts say there is no evidence that household pets can contract the disease.
The Colorado State University vet school delivered to Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins a breathing machine that was "brand new, right out of the box," professor Tim Hackett said. "We did not get a chance to use it."
And in New York, the hardest-hit place in the United States by the new coronavirus, the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine has loaned two full-service ventilators and a high-flow oxygen unit to a hospital in Manhattan. It is also preparing to send three full-service breathing machines and 19 of the smaller anesthesia ventilators to Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, where the vet school is located.
Dean Lorin Warnick, whose institution has also provided hundreds of respirator and surgical masks, and testing materials, said the college is providing only essential emergency service to animal patients and following FDA guidelines on conserving protective equipment.
The aim, Warnick said, is "to make sure we can divert as much of our supply as possible to human health care."
Beyond equipment and supplies, veterinarians are looking to help out with operating and bed space, and even to detail staffers to coronavirus duty.
"We also made contingency plans to go a lot further," Lunn said. To provide our people … as technical experts who could work under the supervision of medical doctors, possibly to provide our physical facility. Because we have large hospital spaces with piped oxygen and a variety of other medical supplies."
Hackett said the veterinary and human health systems already collaborate a lot.
"There are times we have to run over there and get drugs that we don't carry, pieces of equipment or parts," he said. "They've always been very open. So it's really, it's really nice to be able to pay that back."
Kevin Unger, president and CEO of Poudre Valley, said he's heard stories animals coming to its facilities after hours for CAT scans and MRIs, and agreed it's a relationship that "goes both ways."
"Colorado State really stepped up in a big way," he said. "Go Rams!"
But fear not for the nation's furry critters—Warnick and others said they have retained enough equipment to care for people's pets.
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The top site for classified ads in the U.K. conducted a study recently that should send a wave or two to this side of the Atlantic. When it comes to scams, it's all about the bait. Gumtree found that even with the forethought that a listing was a scam, more than a third of their users would still go ahead with a transaction. As my mother would say … Actually, she'd probably just shake her head.
It doesn't matter where they happen. Scams are as international and ubiquitous as the human capacity to be tricked. And while some scams are super-nova dumb, that does not always mean that most people who fall for them are.
Scams rely on a simple fact of life: People are busy. Most of us aren't Zen masters of meditation. It's hard to fully occupy each and every moment because we lead distraction-filled lives. We're not constantly up on the fire tower scanning the horizon for smoke, and that's a good thing.
Unfortunately, there are some real slime balls out there who rely on this problem of ours.
Here are some recent scams that are making the rounds:
Amazon Phishing Scam
In this scam, you get an email from Amazon. It informs you that there's been a problem of some sort. Don't focus on what sort, because it's these nuances that will get you got. If you get an email from Amazon telling you that there's been a problem with an order, or that a recent order was canceled, it's time to focus. It could be a scam.
How it works: There's a link in the email that leads to a site that looks identical to Amazon, but you're not anywhere near the site. The scammers are looking to get your personal information to use in the commission of identity theft, and your financial information to drain your credit card or bank account.
What to do: Visit your Amazon account by logging in directly. Do not use the link in the scam phishing email.
[Editor's note: Keeping track of your credit scores can help you spot signs of fraud early on. A significant decrease in your scores could be a sign that someone has gotten hold of your information and using it without your permission. You can check your credit scores regularly using Credit.com's absolutely free Credit Report Summary.]
Smishing Scams
Smishing isn't terribly different from phishing, but if you're not expecting at least the possibility of a smishing text, you might fall for it. The text arrives and appears to be from your bank. It could be from your internet provider. Generally, it's from somewhere that can negatively impact your life, and that would also be in possession of your mobile digits.
How It Works: The smishing text informs you that someone has tried to access your account or it's been frozen (again don't get caught up on the details, the account or anything else), and your password or some other data needs to be updated. There's a link to use where you can authenticate yourself by entering your personal information (for example, your Social Security number), and secure your account.
What to Do: If you regularly use your smartphone to access the internet, bear in mind that there are hidden dangers everywhere, and pause before you pounce on text warnings.
Sweepstakes Scam
You get a phone call from someone very cheerful, and maybe even a little breathless in the delivery of their blue-sky greetings. You've just won the Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes. You're a millionaire or a $500,000-aire. The prize patrol is 20 minutes away, so get dressed and be ready for your photo op with a beach towel-sized check.
How It Works: This scam preys on the wonderful human trait that, no matter how our day or month or year is going, hope springs eternal. Part of your prep for the prize patrol, however, requires that you pay the processing fee upfront. There could be many explanations for it, but the bottom line is you're going to have to spend money to collect the prize.
What to Do: Hang up, and don't bother changing your clothes. If you really have money coming to you from the sweepstakes or lottery, they are legally obligated to get it to you.
IRS Phone Scam
You get a phone call from the IRS, which is not entirely far-fetched anymore because Congress directed the IRS to collect back taxes with help from collection agencies. So, you could get a legitimate call from one of these four collection agencies: CBE Group of Cedar Falls, Iowa; Conserve of Fairport, New York; Performant of Livermore, California; or Pioneer of Horseheads, New York.
How It Works: The caller says you owe taxes (never mind the particulars as this is the nuance stuff that fuels any good scam), and if you don't pay you're going to be arrested (or some other bad thing will happen). Payment can only be made through a prepaid debit card or gift card, because of the particular kind of hell you created with your fictional bad behavior. You are informed that the purchase of whatever card you are told to buy is linked to the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System.
What to Do: Hang up and wait for a letter from the IRS notifying you of the situation, or call the IRS directly to inquire about any taxes you may owe.
The Grandparent Scam
Here's one that doesn't prey on the attention deficit disorder called daily life, but rather, it plays on the heartstrings. This scam relies on the sharing of information on social media, and the universal inability among some people to recognize a relative's voice.
How It Works: A targeted grandparent gets a call asking for emergency funds, either directly from the grandchild who is actually a scammer armed with family names gleaned from your social media account — or someone representing them (a lawyer, bail bondsman, police officer). The story is good. All scammers are good storytellers. The ask is doable. They need money wired now.
What to Do: Never wire money unless you are absolutely certain where and to whom it's going. If possible, double check a request with another relative. If you're told secrecy is necessary (because a parent or sibling will be mad), just say no. Bigger picture advice: Don't overshare. Set your privacy as tight as it will go, and don't let people tag you in photos. And while it's hard to sift through these days, get rid of any friends on social media who aren't actually friends. Perhaps you should use this as an opportunity to prune a few friends too. You know, the ones that are always asking you for money.
The One-Ring Scam
This one is simple. Your phone rings once. That's it. The scam relies on a couple things, though. First, there's a curiosity factor. Second, there's the very real possibility that most people have not memorized every area code used in the United States. But forget that, because caller ID can be be gamed with a spoofed phone number. Here's what you need to know: Your phone rang once.
How It Works: You call back the number, and you're automatically charged for a service that you didn't want, or money is otherwise sucked out of your phone account to appear at the end of the billing cycle.
What to Do: If your phone rings once, assume the conversation that didn't happen wasn't worth happening. Wait for whomever called to leave a message, and never (ever) return fire.
There are more scams happening all the time, and no way to chronicle every one of them. But the baseline behavior of pausing and thinking for a moment, "Could this be a scam?" is your best protection to keep fraudsters at bay.
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After a quarter of a century as a member, I'm this year's chairman of the Parliamentary Lobby. In spite of its sinister reputation, the Lobby is not an old boys' network in which politicians and hacks conspire to "keep it under their hats". We rarely hear secrets and, if we do, the public is informed pretty soon afterwards. In practice, it is the main interface between political journalists, the Government and parliamentary institutions. Our privileges are granted by the Speaker and the Serjeant at Arms, not 10 Downing Street – an important safeguard during the bumpy Blair decade. Blair and Alastair Campbell unilaterally trashed the way Government had interacted with political journalists. Brown is bound to have ideas of his own.
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As Speaker Michael Busch emailed lawmakers advising of the addition to the agenda, a number of legislators opposed the suggestion claiming they did not know enough about the subject to discuss it, and it would take up too much time reserved for debate on other aspects of gambling expansion.
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If you ask me what my favorite season is, I will promptly answer "Fallâ€, without a doubt. Why, then, am I resisting fall's arrival this year? I'm still buying summer squash, stone fruit, and corn. Hey, these things stay in season a lot longer here in California. Maybe my resistance comes from San Francisco's goofy summer weather. Our warm, sunny days just started last week and will be gone by early October. Cool, foggy mornings and brisk afternoon breezes were the norm all summer long. I don't have a problem with that, especially after living in the oppressive Caribbean heat for several months. I just can't get into fall until it really feels like fall.
Something about visiting the East Coast last week made me crave fall apples like nothing else. Lee and I made a last minute trip for his grandmother's memorial service but managed to visit three states in a short amount of time. We flew into Boston, spent the night in a nearby hotel with Lee's family, and spent the next day at the service and post-service gathering in the Connecticut. The Connecticut countryside feels almost mystical to me. The grass is so green and the little stone walls are so quaint. It's about at foreign as landscapes get to a Californian.
The next day, my 26th birthday, we were all the way up in Maine at Lee's parents house. We lived there for a few months last summer so it truly felt like home. I must say, Maine was having better weather than SF. It was sunny and warm. The trees had not started changing yet. Still, something in the air smelled or felt like fall.
Lee and I were driving his MGB down a winding country road when I exclaimed that it would be fun to pick apples on my birthday and it was too bad apple season hadn't started yet. It hadn't? The next curve we rounded brought us to the local orchard and we pulled off as soon as we saw the you-pick sign for apples.
The trees were loaded. I mean loaded. The branches were heavy with apples and the air smelled sweet. The early season Macintosh and Cortland apples were a little tart but I like them that way. We tried really hard not to pick too many, knowing we'd be leaving in a couple days anyway, but it was so hard not to fill our bags. We left with 13 pounds of apples and vowed to eat as many as possible before our flight home.
One can only eat so many apples in one day. When it came time to pack our things, I just couldn't leave our bounty behind. We boarded the plane with a bag of apples nestled in a carry-on.
I knew I had to bake something with the country-crossing apples. I guess this is an admission that fall has arrived to some part of my being. I started with a recipe from one of my thrift store cookbooks and adapted it to suit my pantry and my laziness. The millet flour was an experiment with a happy result. I expected these muffins to turn out dense and dry because of it but they surprised me with their fluffy texture. They are a bit crumbly, almost like corn muffins, and have that sandy, grainy texture as well. The millet flavor is sweet and subtle. It goes nicely with maple, I think. All in all, I'm excited about millet flour's prospects as an addition to my baked goods.
Apple Maple Muffins (With Millet Flour)
Adapted from the Better Homes and Gardens Bread Cookbook, 1963, Double-apple Fantans
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1 cup millet flour*
3 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup finely chopped tart apple
1 beaten egg, 3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup oil or melted butter (I used coconut oil)
1/3 cup maple syrup
12 apple slivers for muffin tops
Optional coating for apple topping: 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg (I skipped this but will try it next time)
*I bought my millet flour at the local co-op but you can make your own by grinding the grain in a coffee grinder until you have a fine powder.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Line a muffin pan with paper or silicone liners, or coat with a little oil.
If you plan to coat apple topping with cinnamon sugar, blend those ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.
Combine flours, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and chopped apple in a large bowl, stirring until completely mixed.
In a separate bowl, blend egg, milk, oil, and maple syrup.
Add liquids to dry mixture and stir until just combined.
Spoon batter into muffin cups.
Top each muffin with an apple sliver, either tossed in cinnamon sugar mixture or plain.
Bake at 375 for 20 minutes, or until the muffins are golden brown on top.
Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack


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Music Monday: Nine Inch Nails "The Downward Spiral" Turns 25
The second studio album by Nine Inch Nails turned 25 years old on March 8th
On March 8, 1994, the world was introduced to what would be a massive explosion from Nine Inch Nails.
Albums that came out in the 90's have been turning 25 years old for a few years now. This one is pretty monumental, as it's one of the game changers for industrial and hard-edged music that was played a lot on alternative radio stations when it first came out.
Not including the various mix albums and the 1992 EP "Broken", this is considered the first big production album for Trent and Co. NIN debut album "Pretty Hate Machine" was pretty much all Trent. And the production was all Trent, given how that album came together.
The sounds and experimentation on "The Downward Spiral" was new to many ears. Mentioning "Broken" again, we had a taste of what this second NIN album would be like. This album would go way beyond in all sorts of ways.
Track List
- "Mr. Self Destruct"
- "Piggy"
- "Heresy"
- "March of the Pigs"
- "Closer"
- "Ruiner"
- "The Becoming"
- "I Do Not Want This"
- "Big Man with a Gun"
- "A Warm Place"
- "Eraser"
- "Reptile"
- "The Downward Spiral"
- "Hurt"
With the exception of "Big Man with a Gun", I like pretty much every track on this album. I don't listen to "Closer" as often as I used to 20+ years ago. My favorite song is "Heresy", with "I Do Not Want This" being a close second. Overall, I think this album has stood the test of time and is just as listenable and relevant today as it was 25 years ago.
I saw the band on the Destruction Tour, where they had openers Jim Rose Circus Side Show and Marilyn Manson as openers. Although Marilyn Manson was banned from playing at the Delta Center here in downtown Salt Lake City, thanks to the owner of the Delta Center Larry H Miller refusing on grounds that Mr. Manson was harmful to the teens and that he ripped up a bible on stage.
Guitarists Robin Finck wore a t-shirt that had the words "Larry Miller is fucking pussy" written on with a Sharpie. I still really enjoyed the show [and would eventually see Marilyn Manson many times in concert over the the years] and it was a great experience seeing a band that was on the verge of becoming a world-wide act.
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I've been keeping this rock in my room since college. All I can remember is that I got it from a beach somewhere. But I can't remember from what beach, who am I with that time, and what special event happened, that I still cared to bring it home with me considering that it is so heavy. This rock must really be special. I really wanted to find out. I tried closing the lights in my room hoping that it would glow in the dark. But it did not.
While I was looking at it, I thought of Jason Mraz again! His latest video, I'm Yours reminded me of my college days when we used to go to beaches, lakes, waterfalls (unplanned). It maybe tiring at times especially when we walk on slimy wet rocks, but its all worth it. It made me miss my old friends. I haven't been going out lately because I've been concentrating on my personal geeky projects that consume my time and money. Plus, I have dayjob too! [image source: Van Agdon] Continue reading A rock from the beach


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MONTREAT, N.C. (AP) — The Rev. Billy Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, becoming a counselor to presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, died Wednesday. He was 99.
Graham, who long suffered from cancer, pneumonia and other ailments, died at his home in North Carolina, spokesman Mark DeMoss told The Associated Press.
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More than anyone else, Graham built evangelicalism into a force that rivaled liberal Protestantism and Roman Catholicism in the United States. His leadership summits and crusades in more than 185 countries and territories forged powerful global links among conservative Christians, and threw a lifeline to believers in the communist-controlled Eastern bloc. Dubbed "America's pastor," he was a confidant to U.S. presidents from Gen. Dwight Eisenhower to George W. Bush.
In 1983, President Reagan gave Graham the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor. When the Billy Graham Museum and Library was dedicated in 2007 in Charlotte, former Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton attended.
"When he prays with you in the Oval Office or upstairs in the White House, you feel he's praying for you, not the president," Clinton said at the ceremony.
President Donald Trump tweeted : "The GREAT Billy Graham is dead. There was nobody like him! He will be missed by Christians and all religions. A very special man."
Beyond Graham's public appearances, he reached untold millions through his pioneering use of prime-time telecasts, network radio, daily newspaper columns, evangelistic feature films and globe-girdling satellite TV hookups. Graham's message was not complex or unique, yet he preached with a conviction that won over audiences worldwide.
"The Bible says," was his catch phrase. His unquestioning belief in Scripture turned the Gospel into a "rapier" in his hands, he said.
A tall, striking man with thick hair, stark blue eyes and a firm jaw, Graham was a commanding presence at his crusades. He would make the altar call in his powerful baritone, asking the multitudes to stand, come down the aisles and publicly make "decisions for Christ," as a choir crooned the hymn "Just As I Am."
By his final crusade in 2005 in New York City, he had preached in person to more than 210 million people worldwide. No evangelist is expected to have his level of influence again.
"William Franklin Graham Jr. can safely be regarded as the best who ever lived at what he did," said William Martin, author of the Graham biography "A Prophet With Honor."
Born Nov. 7, 1918, on his family's dairy farm near Charlotte, North Carolina, Graham came from a fundamentalist background that expected true Bible-believers to stay clear of Christians with even the most minor differences over Scripture. But as his crusades drew support from a widening array of Christian churches, he came to reject that view.
He joined in a then-emerging movement called New Evangelicalism that abandoned the narrowness of fundamentalism to engage broader society. Fundamentalists at the time excoriated the preacher for his new direction, and broke with him when he agreed to work with more liberal Christians in the 1950s.
Graham stood fast. He would not reject people who were sincere and shared at least some of his beliefs, Martin said. He wanted the widest hearing possible for his salvation message.
"The ecumenical movement has broadened my viewpoint and I recognize now that God has his people in all churches," he said in the early 1950s.
In 1957, he said, "I intend to go anywhere, sponsored by anybody, to preach the Gospel of Christ."
His approach helped evangelicals gain the influence they have today. Graham's path to becoming an evangelist began taking shape at age 16, when the Presbyterian-reared farmboy committed himself to Christ at a local tent revival.
"I did not feel any special emotion," he wrote in his 1997 autobiography, "Just As I Am." ''I simply felt at peace," and thereafter, "the world looked different."
After high school, he enrolled at the fundamentalist Bob Jones College, but found the school stifling, and transferred to Florida Bible Institute in Tampa. There, he practiced sermonizing in a swamp, preaching to birds and alligators before tryouts with small churches. He still wasn't convinced he should be a preacher until a soul-searching, late-night ramble on a golf course.
"I finally gave in while pacing at midnight on the 18th hole," he said. "'All right, Lord,' I said, 'If you want me, you've got me.'"
Graham, who became a Southern Baptist, went on to study at Wheaton College, a prominent Christian liberal arts school in Illinois, where he met fellow student Ruth Bell, who had been raised in China where her father had been a Presbyterian medical missionary.
The two married in 1943, and he planned to become an Army chaplain. But he fell seriously ill, and by the time he recovered and could start the chaplain training program, World War II was nearly over.
Instead, he took a job organizing meetings in the U.S. and Europe with Youth for Christ, a group he helped found. He stood out then for his loud ties and suits, and a rapid delivery and swinging arms that won him the nickname "the Preaching Windmill."
A 1949 Los Angeles revival turned Graham into evangelism's rising star. Held in a tent dubbed the "Canvas Cathedral," Graham had been drawing adequate, but not spectacular crowds until one night when reporters and photographers descended. When Graham asked them why, a reporter said that legendary publisher William Randolph Hearst had ordered his papers to hype Graham. Graham said he never found out why.
The publicity gave him a national profile. Over the next decade, his massive crusades in England and New York catapulted him to international celebrity. His 12-week London campaign in 1954 defied expectations, drawing more than 2 million people and the respect of the British, many of whom had derided him before his arrival as little more than a slick salesman.
Three years later, he held a crusade in New York's Madison Square Garden that was so popular it was extended from six to 16 weeks, capped off with a rally in Times Square that packed Broadway with more than 100,000 people.
The strain of so much preaching caused the already trim Graham to lose 30 pounds by the time the event ended. It remains his longest revival meeting ever.
As his public influence grew, the preacher's stands on the social issues of his day were watched closely by supporters and critics alike. One of the most pressing was the civil rights movement. Graham was no social activist and never joined marches, which led prominent Christians such as theologian Reinhold Niebuhr to publicly condemn Graham as too moderate.
Still, Graham ended racially segregated seating at his Southern crusades in 1953, a year before the Supreme Court's school integration ruling, and long refused to visit South Africa while its white regime insisted on racially segregated meetings.
In a 2005 interview with The Associated Press, before his final crusade which was held in New York, Graham said he regretted that he didn't battle for civil rights more forcefully.
"I think I made a mistake when I didn't go to Selma" with many clergy who joined the historic Alabama march led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. "I would like to have done more."
Graham more robustly took on the cause of anti-Communism, making preaching against the atheist regime part of his sermons for years.
As America's most famous religious leader, he golfed with statesmen and entertainers and dined with royalty. Graham's relationships with U.S. presidents also boosted his ministry and became a source of pride for conservative Christians who were so often caricatured as backward.
But those ties proved problematic when his close friend Richard Nixon resigned in the Watergate scandal, leaving Graham devastated and baffled. He resolved to take a lower profile in the political world, going as far as discouraging the Rev. Jerry Falwell, a founder of the Moral Majority, from mixing religion and politics.
"Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left," Graham said in 1981, according to Time magazine. "I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future."
Yet, in the 2012 election, with Graham mostly confined to his North Carolina home, he all but endorsed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. And the evangelist's ministry took out full-page ads in newspapers support a ballot referendum that would ban same-sex marriage.
His son, the Rev. Franklin Graham, who runs the ministry, said his father viewed the gay marriage question as a moral, not a political, issue. Graham's integrity was credited with salvaging the reputation of broadcast evangelism in the dark days of the late 1980s, after scandals befell TV preachers Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker.
He resolved early on never to be alone with a woman other than his wife. Instead of taking a share of the "love offerings" at his crusades, as was the custom, he earned a modest salary from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
His ministry was governed by an independent board that included successful Christian businessmen and other professionals — a stark departure from the widespread evangelical practice of packing boards with relatives and yes-men.
"Why, I could make a quarter of a million dollars a year in this field or in Hollywood if I wanted to," Graham said. "The offers I've had from Hollywood studios are amazing. But I just laughed. I told them I was staying with God."
While he succeeded in preserving his reputation, he could not completely shield his family from the impact of his work. He was on the road for months at a time, leaving Ruth at their mountainside home in Montreat, North Carolina, to raise their five children: Franklin, Virginia ("Gigi"), Anne, Ruth and Nelson ("Ned").
Anne Graham Lotz has said that her mother was effectively "a single parent." Ruth sometimes grew so lonely when Billy was traveling that she slept with his tweed jacket for comfort. But she said, "I'd rather have a little of Bill than a lot of any other man."
She died in June 2007 at age 87.
"I will miss her terribly," Billy Graham said, "and look forward even more to the day I can join her in heaven."
In his later years, Graham visited communist Eastern Europe and increasingly appealed for world peace. He opened a 1983 convention of evangelists from 140 nations by urging the elimination of nuclear and biological weapons.
He told audiences in Czechoslovakia that "we must do all we can to preserve life and avoid war," although he opposed unilateral disarmament. In 1982, he went to Moscow to preach and attend a conference on world peace. During that visit, he said he saw no signs of Soviet religious persecution, a misguided attempt at diplomacy that brought scathing criticism from author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, among others.
"It's worth taking a risk for peace," Graham contended, although he was clearly stung by the controversy.
Graham's relationship with Nixon became an issue once again when tapes newly released in 2002 caught the preacher telling the president that Jews "don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country."
Graham apologized, saying he didn't recall ever having such feelings and asking the Jewish community to consider his actions above his words on that tape. Health problems gradually slowed Graham, but he did not cease preaching.
In 1995, his son, Franklin, was named the ministry's leader. Along with the many honors he received from the evangelical community and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Graham received the $1 million Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1982 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1996.
Graham will be buried by his wife at the Billy Graham Museum and Library.
"I have been asked, 'What is the secret?'" Graham had said of his preaching. "Is it showmanship, organization or what? The secret of my work is God. I would be nothing without him."


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Specialist brands find the sweet spot in UK retail
Tapping into lifestyle trends is key for retailers – and specialist brands often do it best.
Keeping up with the latest lifestyle trends and remaining relevant in a crowded marketplace is a tough challenge for today's retailers.
While many department stores are struggling – with challenging trading conditions adding to their woes – specialist brands in tune with the needs and preferences of today's shoppers are faring better.
Specialist food and drink outlets such as tea chain Whittard and athletic leisurewear stores such as JD Sports are among those riding the healthy living zeitgeist which has seen consumers of all ages place greater emphasis on high-quality food and drink and become more active in their daily lives.
Food-to-go is another niche area where time-poor consumers seeking convenience are happy to spend, especially on healthier options, with the UK market set to be worth £23.5 billion by 2022 – up from £17.4 billion in 2017, according to market research group IGD.
Linked to this are food halls and markets with a variety of unique offerings. Borough Market in London successfully promotes itself as a foodie destination to buy and experience authentic global produce in a cool, convivial setting while the former BHS department store on London's Oxford Street is due to open as a Try Market Halls venture.
"It's often the younger operators that have found a niche in the market that are growing," Colin Burnet, JLL director – UK research, says. "The successful retailers now are those who understand their customers' spending and what they want, whether its online or in-store shopping, convenience, or an experience. Getting the mix right is crucial."
Getting personal
Like all other retailers, specialist brands face intense competition from online players, where lower overheads often mean lower prices. Yet specialist brands have one big advantage; they can create an in-store experience, whether it's sampling a bottle of wine before buying, trying on nail polish or getting a make-up masterclass.
Beauty specialists know this well. They're now using the latest technology to create an immersive, personal in-store experience that keeps their audience coming back for more. Dior, for example, uses digital screens to beam backstage footage from its catwalk shows and fashion-savvy customers can then try the latest shades and products.
Burberry, meanwhile, has introduced an in-store digital nail bar, where users can select a shade and use technology to virtually match it to their skin tone to see how it looks.
Fashion retailers are also taking note. Next is introducing prosecco bars in some shops, including Manchester, to immerse its customers in a shopping experience they can't find online.
Rethinking retail real estate
Changes in shopping habits and the rise of new brands with more specialist offerings, which often have numerous smaller stores in select retail locations, has big implications for the wider retail real estate sector – especially as the stalwarts of UK retail face the headwinds of lower consumer spending and high business rates.
"We are seeing a lot of the big legacy retailers with store networks that are too big for their needs," Burnet says. "One of the things they are doing is sub-letting these larger stores and bringing in a lot of specialist leisure, experience and entertainment outlets to provide more variety and differentiate their customer experience while also ensuring they remain relevant to today's shoppers."
While large flagship stores will continue to have a place in UK retail – specialist brands still want high-profile venues to show off their wares – more smaller units in the right location and more flexible lease terms could help all retailers better respond to changing lifestyle trends and downturns in consumer spending.
"There's a lot of retailers, like Matalan, that are actually performing well, if you look behind the headlines," according to Burnet.
Nevertheless, as the current difficulties in UK retail lead to a reshuffle of tenants, it's creating opportunities for specialist brands.
"People are still heading to retail locations – it's just what they're buying and how much they're spending that's changing," Burnet says. "Plus, outside of the prime areas, retail units are becoming cheaper."
"There's money to be made for those retailers who come along with the right niche product, sell it through the right channels and get their digital offer right."


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