Our last pre-Covid-19 dive in the shallow channel between Goat Island and the mainland. The place is a marine reserve, it used to be full of fish, but it seems that the pressure from tourists, which are not allowed to feed them, causes them to move further off shore. However, in the evenings they return […]
“Why are boys sent to school, Robinson?” Robinson, with downcast eyes and an air of offensive virtue, replied faintly, “To learn, sir.” “No, boy, no,” said the old gentleman wagging his head. “It was because one day at breakfast Mr. Robinson said to Mrs. Robinson, ‘My dear, we must do something about that boy. He’s […]
Testing Panasonic AG-HVX200 in Gates housing in murky waters of Browns Bay right off the beach. Divers: Adam Poloha, Daniel Poloha Cameras: Adam Poloha (GoPro 4 Black), Daniel Poloha (HVX 200)
He is much less of an Imperialist than Dante, and even his Papalism is not very Imperial. He is very fond of phrases like “a mob of free men” as the essential material of a city; and he is emphatic upon the fact that law, when it ceases to be justice, ceases even to be […]
We have all heard of the humility of the man of science; of many who were very genuinely humble; and of some who were very proud of their humility. It will be the somewhat too recurrent burden of this brief study that Thomas Aquinas really did have the humility of the man of science; as […]
In the old pagan proverb about kings being philosophers or philosophers kings, there was a certain miscalculation, connected with a mystery that only Christianity could reveal. For while it is possible for a king to wish much to be a saint, it is not possible for a saint to wish very much to be a […]