Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Showing posts with label clothing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clothing. Show all posts

Thursday, August 18, 2011

stuff

Selling my mother's dresses is a touching consideration of heirlooms and objects by Abbie Sher.





Wednesday, May 19, 2010

All about naking


Clothe the Naked

It might be an extinct word, but Mark Shea uses it with his usual insight, intelligence and sense of entertainment.

As he says, we don't find many homeless people naked here. They freeze to death in the Winter with clothes on, let alone without...





 

Friday, March 05, 2010

a different outfit at the Oscars

Ottawa firm's bomb suit gets Oscar attention

with all the land mines and bombs all over the place it is wonderful to think there is some protection for the people defusing them.


Saturday, November 22, 2008

One of those no-brainers

Foot pain associated with high heels

I would have thought that this was self-evident. I'm surprised there aren't more crippling disabilities as a result of wearing them.