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The Digital Diarist is a daily publication about discovering the meaning and magic in everyday moments.
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- Sep 16, 2026
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On First Seeing St. Peter’s Baldaquin (opens the original)
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Looking straight down the nave of St. Peter’s Basilica, you see a monumental structure that rises above the altar in the crossing.<img alt="Baldaquin_Bernin_Saint-Pierre_Vatican.jpg (1841×2456)" class="sizing-normal" height="851" src="https://substackcdn.
On First Seeing the Pietà (opens the original)
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I went to Italy almost totally ignorant about what great paintings and great statues were housed in which museum or church.So on my first day in Rome when I entered St Peter’s Basilica, walked through the portico and and turned to my right, I was startled to see before me, illuminated by bright white lights, the Pietà. The Madonna and Christ gleamed in immaculate marble behind a panel of bullet proof glass, so it was only possible to view the sublime figures from a distance. And I confess my fir
Watch Me Nēnē (opens the original)
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Here is a bird brought back from extinction’s brink—<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1497" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fRGD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.
Aftermath of the Storm (opens the original)
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The long cloud is a sopped dish cloth which the weather’s hands have left un-wrung.The bedraggled trees are bent in the direction the wind went.Thanks for reading The Digital Diarist! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</div
The First Plover of the Season (opens the original)
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Here, in elegant profile, is the first plover of the season.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1545" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kleG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%
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