{"id":6331,"date":"2005-12-15T22:43:54","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T22:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/12\/blog-notes-1.html"},"modified":"2005-12-15T22:43:54","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T22:43:54","slug":"blog-notes-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/12\/blog-notes-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Blog notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some from all over:<\/p>\n

Kathryn Lively has re-started her blog, with the best banner of any Catholic blogger. I’m jealous.<\/a><\/p>\n

Your Pastoral Coach has high praise for a new rosary book.<\/a><\/p>\n

Dom Bettinelli has a new blog URL<\/a><\/p>\n

Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex has startling news about a startling new book<\/a><\/p>\n

Terry Teachout updates us on his condition<\/a><\/p>\n

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Time finally ran out on me last Thursday night. I took a cab to Broadway to see a press preview of Chita Rivera: The Dancer\u2019s Life<\/a><\/em>, and no sooner did I arrive at the theater than I knew something was very, very wrong. After the show was over, my companion for the evening (bless her!) helped me up the aisle and a press agent (bless him!) hailed a cab. It took me ten minutes to climb the two flights of stairs to my apartment. I collapsed on the couch and spent the small hours deciding what to do. I packed a bag and straightened up the apartment\u2014very, very slowly. My plan was to descend carefully to the street in the morning and hail a cab on Columbus Avenue, but when the sun came up and I saw that it was snowing, I came at last to my senses, called 911, and unlocked my door. Two minutes later a two-man team of paramedics was slapping an oxygen mask on my face and slipping an IV into my right arm.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you\u2019re a drama critic, huh?\u201d one of them asked as they carried me down the stairs. \u201cMy grandma is coming to town for Christmas\u2014I want to take her to a show. What do you suggest?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, definitely The Trip to Bountiful<\/a><\/em>,\u201d I said, my voice muffled by the mask. \u201cI guarantee she\u2019ll like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Is it crass of me to mention that Terry mentions The Edge of Sadness<\/a> in this post? . Probably. But the passage he quotes is one that stuck with me as well for years as well, after I first read the novel in my late teens (when I read everything in my parent’s house). Do go read the post – it will lift you up and open your eyes a little bit more to how precious this gift of life is.<\/p>\n

Well, God bless you Terry, and here’s to your recovery and improved health. <\/p>\n

By the way, my father was in New York over Thanksgiving, and based on Teachout’s review, went to a production of Bach in Liepzig – and enjoyed it very much. <\/a>A critic you can trust!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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