"I have always felt myself to be a stranger here on earth, aware that our home is elsewhere."
Malcolm Muggeridge in 1988, quoted in Joseph Pearce Literary Converts
A putt "scurrying across the green like a rat on fire."
An announcer on TBS August 15 1992
In my latest National Post column I ask how Canadians are meant to understand their system of government when party leaders like Elizabeth May clearly don't.
"the one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it."
G.K. Chesterton "Time’s Abstract and Brief Chronicle" according to Dale Ahlquist. It was paraphrased by Kara Kelley in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #5 (March-April 2005) as "The most romantic thing in the world is to fight a losing battle, and not lose." Which is almost the only case I know of where somebody rephrased Chesterton and may have improved him.
The switch to a new website platform lead to a new address for my iTunes podcast. It took a couple of days to sort it out but if you've been missing it you can now find it here.
It's also available on Google Play.
Thanks for your patience.
"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell."
Zora Hurston, quoted in Elie Nasrallah Hostage to History