Inspired by my anonymous friend Ken Latke, I’ve been brushing up my portfolio. I actually have two portfolios; one on this site for my writing and art, and another for my business of the book craft, Wineskin Media. While I plan to post pages from my recent layout projects such as This Is My Body, by Mark Shea, and an upcoming biography on Christopher Dawson by Bradley J. Birzer, at the moment you can read elegant selections from a few classics: Manalive, On Democracy in America, and Europe and the Faith.

That is, I hope they’re classics. Manalive, of course, goes without saying, and Europe and the Faith, if I’m rembering it properly, has many a shock in store for the historically challenged (defined here as conventionally educated). I am pretty darn sure I have never read On Democracy in America, and I think I would remember if I had; the Penguin Classics edition clocks in at 992 pages. But it’s one of those infuriating books everyone quotes, probably trying to give the impression they’ve read it. Anyhow, the chapter I picked, “Unlimited Power Of Majority, And Its [Bad] Consequences,” makes the rest look promising indeed. I like to hear people talk politics in a cool, steady voice and use words like tyranny.

Leaving aside the subject of classics, I’ve also tracked down and linked to all but one of my over eighty lessons on abcteach.com. You need to be a member to access most of them, but several are available to the public.

But now the sun has set, and the Lord’s Day has begun.
Work, be gone, be banished! I’m off to have some fun.

And maybe write a better couplet.