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Lent for Dummies
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jmcgee
And one of those dummies would have to include Your Humble Blogger — who had no idea until a couple years ago that, in fact, it’s not really 40 days. (They don’t count Sundays.) Anyway, there’s a lot of stuff all of us need to know about the season that will be starting on February…
Still. Coming. Down.
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jmcgee
My sister in suburban Maryland (Howard County) reports that they’re getting hammered. Again. On top of the three feet or so they got last weekend, another foot or more is piling up. She sent me the picture below. It was taken Wednesday afternoon. Somewhere, in all that snow, alongside the lamp post and winding between…
A simply great ad
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jmcgee
On so many levels. It’s a PSA from the UK. H/T The A.
One more week ’til Lent
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jmcgee
Ash Wednesday is only a week away, and the purple will come out and the “Alleluias” will be silenced. So for now, enjoy this latest rendition — and a gorgeous one, at that — of a perennial favorite of The Bench. It’s Leonard Cohen’s mysteriously beautiful and enigmatic “Hallelujah,” performed by Justin Timberlake and Matt…
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