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Brian H. Gill
I was born in 1951. I'm a husband, father and grandfather. One of the kids graduated from college in December, 2008, and is helping her husband run businesses and raise my granddaughter; another is a cartoonist and artist; #3 daughter is a writer; my son is developing a digital game with #3 and #1 daughters. I'm also a writer and artist.
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Monthly Archives: December 2023
Swiss Guard: Their Finest Hour, So Far
Whether they’re called the Swiss Guard, Papal Swiss Guard, or Pontificia Cohors Helvetica, those 135 men wear what may be today’s most colorful full dress uniforms. Although they look like something straight out of the Renaissance, the uniform’s not much … Continue reading
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Pope’s Christmas Message: “Urbi et Orbi”, December 25, 2023
…I could get upset: either because Pope Francis mentioned unresolved problems here in the Americas; or because I can’t, personally, end poverty, hunger and human cussedness…. Continue reading
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Merry Christmas!
With rain and freezing rain in the forecast for today, I wanted something other than my favorite Christmas-season picture for that Christmas 2023 display in the upper right. So I selected part of a photo from 2021: this household’s Nativity … Continue reading
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Spokes in Saturn’s Rings, View With Hubble Space Telescope
That’s a one minute, four second, video with music and no narration. Cool, though. So was this three-minute (their estimate) read from NASA: And that’s all the writing I’m doing today: Christmas Eve, December 24, 2023. Aside from wishing you … Continue reading
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Happy Lille Julaften and Fourth Sunday in Advent
Happy Lille Julaften! It’s still December 23, here in central Minnesota: Lille Julaften, Little Christmas Eve, as my Scandinavian relatives put it, back in the day. A Catholic Citizen in America is on UTC time, where it’s already Christmas Eve. … Continue reading
