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Graham

@parishrecluse.bsky.social
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Perquackey enthusiast. Formerly of tidewater Maryland, currently in Ohio. Anglican (TEC). Avoider of coffee hour. Interested in history, music, religion, politics, & where they intersect. ⚓️🏳️‍🌈 tidewateranglicanism.substack.com

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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Came home from dinner to find the house smelled of gas. Called the gas company. Something on the hot water heater is leaking, so he shut off the gas to it. I wanted to make some bran muffins but didn’t want to waste hot water on washing up (hoping enough left for a shower tomorrow morning).
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just picked up my copy
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I still haven’t made any concrete plans for my week off in early November, and it’ll be here before I know it.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was 21 once.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The fact that this inexpensive hoodie that I bought (in advance of a trip to Vancouver) seven years ago is still wearable strikes me as something of a minor miracle.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Growing up, I never really liked apples. McIntosh were acceptable, but Red Delicious, which in the ‘80s and ‘90s were at times all you could find in a small supermarket, are like cardboard. A couple of years ago, a colleague turned me on to an old cultivar called the Jonathan. Love at first taste.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mondonville has never really been on my radar, but this is a glorious piece in the tradition of Lully’s earlier grands motets. youtu.be/BK5OJZtjqwQ
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Jean-Joseph de Mondonville - Grand motet "Dominus regnavit" (Psalm 92) (1734) (Christie 1996)
YouTube video by Ben van Geest
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Autumn’s Garland” (1915-16) by Tom Thomson (1877-1917), from a visit to the National Gallery of Canada some three and a half years ago.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have seen four of these. That’s how little television I watch.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Apple IIe 💀 My father bought one when I was two or three years old. I can vaguely remember playing games on the green and black screen.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For reasons I don’t entirely understand, I’ve been mildly obsessed with this early 1980s Québécois pop album for about ten years. I even own a vinyl copy.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lower Gambier Road, 7:35 a.m.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have been awake since 7 o’clock yesterday morning. 😐
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In an era of increasingly AI generated SM posts, reading things that are clearly just people posting things that popped into their brains 2 minutes ago is actually nice, so I am all for this
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When I was 10 or 11, my parents took me up to the outside observation deck that was on the roof of the south tower. I took a couple of photos on disc film (how many remember that?), and these are bad scans of the photos I took that day.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A long time ago
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Buying beer at 9:45 a.m. feels decidedly odd. "It's not for me, honest!" (It's actually for my priest for Buy Your Priest a Beer Day.)
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Eleven years ago, I jotted down the first few bars of a nocturne that I wanted to write in the style of the Irish composer John Field (1782-1837), who invented the form. Like most of my compositions, I never finished it.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is the problem with America: It is so car-bound. People always talk about age limits for elderly drivers, but those still in their own homes would starve if they didn’t keep driving.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Doing my anonymous ecumenical bit to help the Roman Catholics to get to Mass.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Tonight’s feature: Cecil B. DeMille’s final silent, “The Godless Girl” (1928)
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Props to the Nashotah House library for providing these scans within two hours of my submitting an ILL request!
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Dreyer’s later (by a decade) film is more famous today, but tonight I’m watching Cecil B. DeMille’s “Joan the Woman” (1916)
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A really weird irony about the "authenticity" debate wrt rural volk vs cosmopolitan elites is that the actual culture of rural red state America in the 2020s is not actually authentic in any meaningful way?
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A 1922 recording of “Onward, Christian Soldiers” on the budget Cameo label
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Sunday morning
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Tonight’s feature: “The Affairs of Anatol” (1921) with Gloria Swanson and the doomed Wallace Reid.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Finally bought a new pair of glasses.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
For my sins, I have agreed to serve another three years as parish vestry clerk.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Apropos today’s D.O. Old Testament lesson
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Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hey real quick are people still into macarons or did they finally realize they’re pretty but not that good?
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Today's earworm. youtu.be/4TEWzMtmjXQ?...
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I Want Somebody To Cheer Me Up - Cliff Edwards (Ukelele Ike) and his Hot Combination - 1926
YouTube video by Mr. Jive
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’ll take signs that have been taped up since 2020 for $200, Alex.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Guys if you are sharing a NY Post headline deliberately mischaracterizing an out of context Hillary Clinton quote from a podcast to make it sound like she's attacking the left, *she* is not the one who is hurting her own side
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
At its core, an indictment (by an Episcopalian) of theft and gambling
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Since I was unable to go to the moving pictures this evening, I brought one of my favorite moving pictures to me. Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Whispering Chorus” (1918), with Kathlyn Williams, one of my favorite actresses of the 1910s.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
August
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Did PECUSA nearly become The Catholic Church in the United States? A story in which Father. Denroche is a supporting — rather than a leading — character. Link in replies. ⚓
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Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A Pleasant Morning On The Wolds. 22°C. Sheep in the valley.
A Pleasant Morning On The Wolds. 22°C. Sheep in the valley.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Neither is introversion.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
If you look closely, you will see that this very record is advertised in the window of this shop in Washington, D.C. “Love Nest” was on the other side of the record.
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“A Young Man’s Fancy” by Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra (recorded 25 May 1920), played on my Victrola.
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Successor of the Apostles for $1000 please, Ken
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
In January 1907, a friend of Denroche published a brief personal recollection of the recently-deceased priest in one of the local newspapers. I missed this when doing my initial research into Denroche's life. Sharing here in full. Link in replies. ⚓
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
In 1926, my grandparents were in the 10-12 age range. My great-grandfathers were a sea captain, a farmer, a farmer (I think?), and the last did something with the family business in Baltimore. Two great-grandmothers were housewives in 1926. One was dead, and the last was a single, divorced mother.*
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Joyce Grenfell - Lady in church youtu.be/CTNyt6PxvJU
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Joyce Grenfell - Lady in Church
YouTube video by Quityertalkin
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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Today's also the feast of St Olaf or Olave, 11th Century King of Norway who was a popular saint on the eastern side of England. Here he is on the early 16th Century south aisle screen at Barton Turf, Norfolk holding a loaf, a pun on his name. Barton Turf: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bartonturf/b...
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Society circling down the drain
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Trying to decide if I’m going to make a pilgrimage to the Promised Land* again this autumn, or if I might go somewhere else. *southeastern Virginia
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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Prayed for all my friends in my phone this morning at St. James, Zanesville ⚓️
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