In a world where most entertainment and humor have become coarsened, it’s nice to know that not all humor is base. The principle of intelligent humor is one of our topics here at Sacred Windows, and thankfully, there is much of it out there, even if we sometimes have to go looking for it. [...]
A train station isn’t exactly the kind of place you would be expected to slow down and do some serious art appreciation. But if you miss the two awesome sculptures in Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, you’ll be worse off than if you had missed your train. These sculptures will – pardon the railroad pun [...]
Mega country star Miranda Lambert is one of those feisty blonde bombshells who bursts onto the country music scene every so often and takes it by storm. She has earned a reputation as a take-no-prisoners femme fatale toward all those lyin’ and cheatin’ losers of country music legend. (If you doubt me, just watch [...]
The sense of sight. The sense of hearing. The senses of taste, smell, and touch. What would we do without these gifts? How would we know anything about the world? The point is: we wouldn’t. The senses are our gateways to the world and we usually take these raw endowments of the human person [...]
On a whirlwind trip to Europe after graduation from college, a friend of mine introduced me to a Spanish kid named Tico. I asked why his friends called him Tico, and he said – completely deadpan – that he started using a nickname after the third time he got beaten up for his real [...]
By Maurice Williams and Peter Darcy It is good to be reminded now and then of what an amazing and beautiful world we live in. For example, if you’ve ever seen the Grand Canyon and thought it was impressive, you would be even more amazed at the monster trench deep in the Pacific Ocean [...]
“Mont Saint-Michel has broken the English siege!” cried the messenger as he galloped into the little town of Domrémy at the far eastern edge of France. It was the year 1424 AD, and a twelve-year-old girl of that town named Jehanne received the news with open enthusiasm. “There is hope for the kingdom of [...]
Italian folk songs are often performed using an artistic technique the Italians have perfected. They call it “Bel Canto”, a name that literally means beautiful song or music. The Harvard Dictionary of Music describes the vocal technique as placing “emphasis on beauty of sound and brilliance of performance rather than dramatic expression or romantic [...]
My excellent Latin teacher in college caught me by surprise one day. I thought I’d impress him with my deep culture by telling him how much I liked listening to the Ave Maria in Latin. He responded, “Oh really? Which one?” (There I was – busted – I didn’t know there was more than [...]
Have you ever found yourself so transfixed by the beauty of something that you become totally absorbed in it, or found yourself listening to a single piece of music over and over because it speaks so deeply to your heart and soul? That is what happens to me each time I listen to the [...]