A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
— Chanakya, 370-280 π.X., Indian teacher & philosopher
So much overdevelopment has taken place since 1996 and even 2015 when we traveled through Barossa, Clare Valley and McLaren Vale … traffic lights 🚦 had to be installed to help ‘wombats to cross’ the busy main road.
Tatachila winery and Oscars somehow stayed the same. While
Unfortunately, spots like St Francis Winery are now surrounded by noisy highways
Hollywood Oscars is Mediterranean-inspired family-owned restaurant blends casual dining with a diverse menu, in rustic surrounds of exposed brick, vibrant artwork and friendly service. Using fresh local produce, there’s a dish for everyone from gourmet pizzas, pasta and salads to an extensive a la carte menu; think starters like classic Port and orange chicken liver paté, with flatbread, crudites, cornichons and apple-pear chutney. For the main, twirl your fork around gamberi fettuccine – pan-fried prawns, pine nuts, chilli, spring onion and tomato in a rosé sauce, finished with baby spinach and Parmesan; or slow-cooked lamb shank, in tomato, garlic and red wine sauce.
Tender beef rump scaloppine in creamy mushroom sauce, finished with a hint of truffle oil, served with duck fat roast potatoes and seasonal vegetables.
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Longtime readers know of my obsession withinterest in Hamilton (see links below). Religion News Service, Why Alexander Hamilton Gave His Heart to Jesus at a Texas Church This Weekend
The whiteboard, the secret lover and Berejiklian’s first fling with leadership
New York Times Op-Ed: New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church, by Julia Yost (Senior Editor, First Things):
As senior churchmen seek to make Catholicism palatable to modernity, members of a small but significant scene are turning to the ancient faith in defiance of liberal pieties. The scene is often associated with “Dimes Square,” a downtown Manhattan neighborhood popular with a pandemic-weary Generation Z — or Zoomer — crowd, but it has spread across a network of podcasts and upstart publications. Its sensibility is more transgressive than progressive. Many of its denizens profess to be apolitical. Others hold outré opinions, whether sincerely or as fashion statements. Reactionary motifs are chic: Trump hats and “tradwife” frocks, monarchist and anti-feminist sentiments. Perhaps the ultimate expression of this contrarian aesthetic is its embrace of Catholicism.
New York Times Op-Ed: The God I Know Is Not a Culture Warrior, by Tish Harrison Warren (Priest, Anglican Church; Author, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep (2021) (Christianity Today's 2022 Book of the Year)):
Two Sundays ago, my church had a baptismal service. Baptisms at our church are a mixture of solemnity and unbridled glee, often full of laughter and tears of joy. Those who were being baptized or, in the case of infants, their parents, took vows to put their trust in God’s grace and love and to renounce spiritual darkness, evil and “all sinful desires that draw” us from the love of God. After the baptism, the kids in our service ran forward, giggling, trying to get sprayed with the baptismal water that our priest, Ryan, slung over the congregation as he called us to “remember your baptism.”
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