For years I asked myself: have I come to terms with the rainy sky, the everlasting winter, the grim and expensive train system, pie and mash, tea-less teabags?
Botticelli starts exactly as he continues, with a chart of hell as it drills like a tornado down beneath the earth: tier upon tier of theatrical balconies from which tiny figures topple, descending to that everlasting winter - a semi-circle of icy blue, drawn with the precision of a geometry-set protractor.
They made sure to equip their three-year-old house in Fair Harbor for an everlasting summer.
At this time of year, however, the word takes on a more glorious meaning: And the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
"Reelin' in the Years," especially, is a wise and wistful accounting of how time goes by: "Your everlasting summer / You can see it fading fast / So you grab a piece of something / That you think is gonna last," Fagen chastises.
The other day in the car, as I was belting out half-forgotten lyrics from my happy-go-lucky youth ("Your everlasting summer, you can see it fading fast, so you grab a piece of something that you think is gonna last"), Clem interrupted to ask, "Who was Steely Dan?" I sighed and turned down the volume.
There, even in winter, when my New York market stalls are all brown root vegetables, the stands still overflow with the colors of an everlasting summer.
Other works arising from his conversion were St. Francis of Assisi (1923), the essay in historical theology The Everlasting Man (1925), The Thing (1929; also published as The Thing: Why I Am a Catholic), and St. Thomas Aquinas (1933).
The filmmaker has directed and co-written countless of made-for-TV classics, including Angel of Christmas, Christmas Everlasting, and Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
"Saved and Saintified" (2005) and "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" (2008) show parishioners engaged in ecstatic worship, and one work commemorates Mr. Rembert's baptism at the age of 9.
"Tuck Everlasting" (Broadhurst, March 31) is drawn from the 1975 children's novel, about a family that has access to eternal life; Casey Nicholaw directs a cast that includes Carolee Carmello, Andrew KeenandBolger, and Terrence Mann.
