Author: Dorothy McLean
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Restoring the culture
I had many opportunities this week to think about Western Civilisation and its 20th century rupturing. First, I got down to writing my review of Anna Kalinowska’s Clothed with Beauty: […]
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The Joy of Dance Cards
I was thinking today that I first came across properTanzkarten at the May 2022 Order of Malta Ball in Edinburgh. However, I suddenly remembered that I had seen them as […]
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Friends with anyone who is friendly
The other day I was in the loft of a converted garage reading Chapter One of the newest Polish translation of C.S. Lewis’ The Horse and His Boy. I have […]
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Looking forward to Easter
Carnival is over, as is the Vienna ball season and, indeed, the activities of Mrs McLean’s Waltzing Party until Easter Sunday. I haven’t yet thought of a dancing event specific […]
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Marriage, Merriment, Meaning
Our club is called Mrs McLean’s Waltzing Party instead of Saint Teresa’s Terpsichoreans or Saint Michael’s Merrymakers because of a chance remark made by a small boy years ago when […]
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Snowdrops and Carnival
Coming home from Poland on Saturday was like flying from winter into spring. It is as yet very early spring in Scotland, mind you. Only two snowdrops in our garden […]
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Things that are of edification
Back home in Canada my father has U.S. Civil War battlefield letters written or preserved by some American ancestor. One epistle is dated July 4, and the writer reminisces about […]
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What I wish everyone knew about social dancing
I used to participate in a martial art. Many people have opinions about this practice, but the more they know about it, the more they respect it. And if such […]
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A Legacy of Dance
It is the birthday of my Scots-Canadian grandmother Gladys, the first person who tried teach me to dance, and it is my St Agnes’ Day tradition to write about her, […]
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Hosanna in excelsis!
Our first New Year’s Ceilidh for Parents who love the Traditional Latin Mass (and their Bairns) took place yesterday afternoon in Ravelston. It was for many an all-afternoon event: Noon […]