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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Aww yiss — “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken” to Abbott’s Leigh will be the processional hymn on Sunday! So much better than singing it to Austria.

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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Lower Gambier Road, 7:41 a.m.

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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A prayer for peace by Eric Milner-White (1884-1963) from “After the third collect : prayers and thanksgivings for use in public worship, previously published as 'Memorials upon several occasions'”

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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Me too. I’ve never liked having gas in the house. It’s always made me nervous.

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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I did what my great-grandmother on the island had to do and heated water on the stove for the washing up.

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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

I like cooking, but I generally don’t like cooking for people with whom I’m not on fairly intimate terms. And I’m very funny about eating food that others have cooked in their own kitchens.

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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My parish is actually doing this.

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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

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 · 27/09/2026

McIntosh is what I’ll grab if I can’t have a Jonathan. Red Delicious are a disgrace!

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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sadly, after autumn, I have to wait another nine months or so to find more (I’ve never seen a Jonathan in a supermarket), so I take advantage of the bounty while it’s at hand.

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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A good Jonathan apple has a perfect tart-sweet balance and is amazingly juicy. (The one I just ate was so juicy that at times it felt as though I was eating an apple and washing it down with apple juice.) They are not so easy to come by, but a couple of the local orchards here have them in the fall.

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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 · 20/09/2026

I adore bread and butter pickles. My spouse thinks they’re disgusting. More for me!

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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m more or less there, too. I can still manage a short distance on a well-marked road, but I’ve never had good eyesight at night, and it’s gotten worse. A couple of years ago I nearly ended up in a ditch when I was blinded by an oncoming car.

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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ah, but learning the alto clef is good, and the viola is an underrated instrument!

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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

I was 20. I didn’t have classes that day, and I woke up just before 9. I logged into AIM (remember that?) and a friend sent me a message that said “Turn on your tv.” “To what channel?” “It doesn’t matter.” And it didn’t. I was roughly halfway between NYC & D.C. Weather was beautiful.

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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

I wish now that I’d appeared. I bet they would’ve dropped it.

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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

He wrote me a ticket anyway. And in those days your name was printed in the county paper if you didn’t pay and chose instead to appear in court. So I paid, because I didn’t want my name in the paper. Moneymaking racket!

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Graham @parishrecluse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

When I was in college, I was pulled over for running a four-way stop in Chestertown. I actually DID stop, but only for half a second or so. (It was a wide-open intersection with a good view and no traffic.) Officer asked me if I knew why he pulled me over. Said I, “Frankly, officer, no.”

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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

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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