Today at the Editor’s glance: Weather: Areas of fog in the morning. Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Friday Night: Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 5 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.
Free For All Fridays on WNZF: Host David Ayres welcomes Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin and City Manager Denise Bevan, with a legislative update, starting shortly after 9 a.m. with my commentary on WNZF.
“The Mountaintop,” at City Repertory Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Directed by John Sbordone, with Brent Jordan as Martin Luther King Jr., and Phillipa Rose as Camae. Thursday Feb. 17 through Saturday Feb. 19. Performances will be in CRT’s black box theater at City Marketplace, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B207, Palm Coast. Tickets are $20 adults and $15 students, available at crtpalmcoast.com, by calling 386-585-9415, or at the venue just before showtime.Katori Hall’s 2009 two-person play imagines – key word: imagines — Martin Luther King Jr. during his last night on earth, as a pretty motel maid named Camae visits him to deliver room service and finds the civil rights icon in a very un-glorious state indeed: Smokin’. Cussin’. Drinkin’. Flirting. Stinky feet. See the preview, “Reimagining Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last Night Before Assassination in CRT’s ‘The Mountaintop,’ Warts and All.”
St. Mark by the Sea Bazaar and Sale: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Parkway NE, Crafts, quality clothing, tools, books, household items, jewelry, Silent Auction sale.
Where Languages are Dying: From Statista’s Daily Infographics: “As UNESCO prepares to celebrate International Mother Language Day 2022 on February 21, data from the Endangered Languages Project analyzed by Statista reveals that thousands of languages from around the world are currently in danger of dying out. The role of languages in the DNA of cultures and the importance they hold as frameworks upon which our societies develop, cannot be understated. […] Globalization is a significant killer of languages, as a 2014 research paper by Amano et al. states.”
Now this:
One of my favorite Bach cantatas, BWV 32, not so much for the valentine (“Dearest Jesus, my desire”) but for the music, the violin, the dialogue between bass and soprano, and that violin in the second aria (“Here, in My Father’s place”), which you can go to directly here. This is the Netherlands Bach Society, not necessarily the best recording out there but the Society’s videos are a gem for their attempt to give us all of Bach. Here’s the second aria’s brief, moving text. Note the violin’s tone when the bass sings of his distressed spirit. The text and translations are thanks to the Bach Cantatas Website:
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November 2025
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
Tree-Lighting Ceremony in Central Park
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
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“No, it is not by dangerous convulsions, it is not by struggles, regicides, and useless crimes that the wounds of the nations will be healed… It is by correcting opinion, combating prejudice, by acquainting princes and peoples with the value of justice, that reason can promise to cure the ills of the human race, and to establish firmly the reign of liberty.”
–From d’Holbach’s “Systeme Social” (1773).
Ray W. says
One of many excellent descriptions of liberalism. Thank you, Mr. Tristam.
Ray W. says
Churchill provided my favorite description of liberalism:
Liberalism has its own history and its own traditions. Socialism has its own formulations and aims. Socialism seeks to pull down wealth; Liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests; Liberalism would preserve private interests in the only way in which they can be safely and justly preserved, namely, by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the pre-eminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks, and shall seek more in the future, to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capital; Liberalism attacks monopoly.
Jim says
“If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal”, then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.” – JFK.