Current reading

Here and there:

• vade mecum: Russell Kirk's The Roots of American Order
• bathroom: Aelred of Rievaulx: Spiritual Friendship
• bedroom, morning & naps: Philip H Sheridan's Personal Memoirs
• bedroom, evening: Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers
  
• dining room: CS Lewis's The Discarded Image: an introduction to medieval and renaissance literature
  
• at the computer: Alonzo Reed & Brainerd Kellogg's Higher lessons in English: a work on English grammar and composition, the book that introduced and defined sentence-diagramming
  

Eight years Thursday

We'll be camping Thursday, my eighth blogiversary, so I'll just note it now. I suppose if this blog has a saintly patron it would be St Mary Magdalen, upon whose feast I began this blog in 2002. Obscure calendar note: her feastday has been celebrated on July 22 since antiquity, being one of the celebrations that survived the scheming wreckovators of the twentieth century.