Hope you guys have a great trip and that the food is beyond your expectations.

Congratulations to Amanda.

Another wedding that I am not invited to. Hmmpf, her loss.

Well, that's ok, I came pretty close to not being invited to my own.

EL, does that mean that you won't be able to celebrate National Cheesecake Day?

RoCK's getting pretty feisty these days......

מזל טוב !

I agree with Canon. (Should that be "the Canon"?)

Canon, should the exclamation point be to the left of the Hebrew characters?

Mazel Tov Amanda!

Have a good trip out there EL!

If you have a lot of days on the books, I'd use them up quickly. Especially the use or lose ones.

Have a wonderful time, EL and Gailor. I hope Amanda's wedding is as lovely as the bride.

Is it just me or does anyone else find it insanely ironic to be posting things in Hebrew for someone with an uber-WASPy name like Amanda Hasting-Phillips? I don't think it's possible to get any WASPier (not that there's anything wrong with that)

You can't guess religion by name, Rev'Ed. You could guess all month, and not get mine, based on name.

Um, Lissa, are you a fellow Druid?

Dahlink, I never know you were a Druid.

No, Dahlink, but you are closer than I thought anyone would get.

But, did you guess that based on my name? My guess is that you guessed that based on me being from Detroit.

Lissa, my guess was based on my impression of you gathered from your posts here.

I am actually a devout agnostic myself (sorry, Canon!), but I am sympathetic to those of the Druid persuasion. Any religion that honors tall trees is okay with me.

Bucky ... I am mindful of the fact that I am not the only canon living and working in these parts, so I have not been using the definite article. However, on further reflection -- and knowing that neither my wife the Cathedral canon nor the other canon with whom I worked for six-plus years reads or posts to this blog -- I should probably add the article for the sake of better grammar. Of course, if another canon starts posting, I'll happily switch to "A Canon."

hmpstd ... you are also correct. I was just so tickled that I got the Hebrew text to post that I forgot about the punctuation.

Rev'Ed ... perhaps the only thing more ironic is that the poster is Episcopalian.

Dahlink ... At the end of his life my father considered himself to be a "gotholic." He had figured out that it wasn't the preaching or the music that inspired him and gave him strength, it was the architecture! From him I learned to value and respect the thoughtful person's agnosticism.

Lissa & Dahlink ... it is no coincidence that Anglican and Druidic practice come from the same place. As I sit at my desk I can see not 40 feet away through my window the trunk of a tree (willow oak?) that is over six feet in diameter and which clearly predates the use of this property as a church. Whoever decided to build the church here 141 years ago clearly "got it."

Canon, the Episcopal church I was dragged to as a teen had a big glass wall behind the altar. It looked out on a small wooded courtyard with a big cross.

I swear, the only way I made it through most Sunday mornings was by watching the squirrels play on the cross.

I know your ilk Lissa. ;-P

The Canon - you're The Canon to me and if another comes along, I'll welcome him/her and call that one The Additional Canon.

Ah, yes, Loki, but you cheated.

Canon--your father and I would have seen eye to eye. I do believe there are sacred spaces on this earth.

Canon... if you like old Anglican Churches with a Celtic bent, I just posted about an amazing church in England. Dates originally from 650, but the current church is from the 1140's.
Here.

EL & Gailor... have a wonderful trip!

Isn't a canon a set of fundamental principles/texts and not personified? Or is it also a title in the Anglican religion?

There are so many canons, no one can keep them straight. I think of the contrapuntal type, myself.

Our canon, however, is of this type, I suspect.

I think a contrapuntal canon is the same thing as a round, isn't it? In the olden days, it was called a lay.

Technically, I believe a round is a type of canon. A round is designed to be sung over and over again, so the end must fit the beginning. A canon doesn't necessarily have that feature.

And then there are fugues, which start out like canons, but get all loose and varient.

According to Wiki, there is even a Star Wars canon... much of which comes from Yoda:

“Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.”

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

"Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.”

Gee, I forgot how lovely Amanda is. If her husband is even remotely good-looking, they're going to have GORgeous kids! Wish the happy couple well from the Sandbox, and let's hope your trip is only as eventful as you wish it to be.

BTW, EL, when I worked at The Sun, I was union-exempt, but still had the birthday and hiring anniversary holidays. The Univ of MD version is (3) "personal" days, which you could use pretty much any time you wanted. Cool, huh?

Will there be another pilgrimage to In-N-Out Burger during this trip? (I assume their burgers won't be on the menu at the wedding reception. On the other hand, since "Amanda is a serious foodie", I could be wrong.)

I have seen Amanda put away more than her share of In-N-Out burgers. :-) EL

LJ, "canon" in SF fandom has a completely different meant. I'm not depraved enough to be a SW geek, but it means the same thing in my corner of fandom, Star Trek.

"Canon" is what is in the movies and the TV shows (except the animated show) and in the series bible. It is not what is in the books or what fans have come up with, like the approximately 17.4 different ways to explain the differences in appearance between TOS (The Original Show) Klingons and TNG (The Next Generation) and beyond Klingons.

Fans usually try to stick to canon, but the non-canon stuff is so much more fun to argue about and some of the canon is so incredibly boneheaded that we can't resist it.

This, of course, often leads to folks getting out the plasma canons.

Pigtown--loved the link to the church! Fantastic corbels, and a great Celtic knot in sandstone. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks, Dahlink. It is an amazing little place.

I am getting ready to do a post on the abbey in the cotswolds village where we spent the summer a few years back. It also dates from the 1100's. The Abbey managed to survive the dissolution in the 1500s by having the parishioners buy the church for £453.

the plasma canons

Those would be cannons, yes?

And then there are fugues, which start out like canons, but get all loose and varient.

Sounds like my kind of music.

the plasma canons

Those would be cannons, yes?

Not during a ST religious war, no.

Indeed, Camille Quelquejeu, fugues are lovely things.