The Miscellanies of a Baptized Imagination…
Welcome
to Wit & Whimsicalities – a webpage reflecting a life of ministry, ongoing projects, and creative adventures – both real and imagined.
“The older I get – the better I was…”
Anonymous
Discover documentaries such as A Nation’s Story: Remembering Our Presidents through the American Presidential Libraries and a compilation of mystical vignettes by D.S. Lamoureux . Find links to a video archive of church homilies and lectures – “From the Crossing” – given over the last decade.
Chronicled are over thirty Mission Trips; personal experiences creating New Liturgies and Worship Environments; and a growing library of original “Virtual Mediations”. The newest additions fondly remember family recipes – “Good Food” – which live on both in spirit and on waist-lines.
The pages of “Wit and Whimsicalities” are illuminated by myriad of quotations from across centuries and cultures – “companions” to accompany us, joining together with those who went before.
Our path is illustrated with photographs – some curated from a century of family material. Many were taken during outer travels of feet – and others inspired by the Spirit’s inner journey.
“And as He spoke –
– He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and so beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they lived happily ever after.
But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”
C S Lewis: “The Last Battle”
Author, philosopher, and Christian apologist
20th C. Professor – Oxford and Cambridge Universities
About the page author:
Paul has served parishes in the Midwest for more than thirty years. A native of Vermont, he feels blessed to be back in New England – and closer to the mountains and waters of home.
Images:
(LOGO) “Toile de Jouy” – Textile. 18th Century French – Air Ballooning
W.M. Britains – Miniatures on Royal Parade – Irish State Coach and Life Guards – 1998
Heraldic Arms: Beauchamp de Saint Germain – detail – (Gallic – 14th Century)
C.S. Lewis Signature (original) – KPS – 2000