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I treated myself to a leisurely day yesterday, in hopes of re-fueling for the office fire: three short naps, a movie with my boys (Cloverfield, not recommended, but not horrible either), practiced baseball hitting with my second son and sports fanatic, watched football, and read whenever the mood struck me. I'm now ready to go back into the hellfire. It reminds me of Joseph Pieper's observation that leisure isn't meant to ready us for work and that only a work-obsessed culture could think such a thing. Pieper's right, of course, but right now, it's unavoidable.
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Good heads up from Danielle Bean: Do you own a paper shredder? Do you leave it where small children might reach? A friend of mine recently went through a horrific experience. Her 2 year old's hand was seriously injured in a paper shredder. After surgery, he is recovering well, but his hand will never be the same, and his mom wants other parents to know: Paper shredders and children don't mix.
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I stumbled across this blog yesterday: From Burke to Kirk and Beyond. It's pretty good.
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This pair of books looks like a contemporary follow-up of Norman Cohn's excellent The Pursuit of the Millennium. Five years ago, I would've ordered them in a heartbeat. With my reading time so limited at this stage of my life, I'm holding off, but my wife is on notice that they'd make good birthday presents.
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Remember: I'm looking for “charitable blogs.” Not blogs written with kindness, but blogs either dedicated to promoting charitable efforts (or a blog sponsored by a charity) or blogs that regularly/frequently make charitable appeals. Please email me (link on left) or post a link in the combox. I made this appeal Friday and didn't get a single response. Quite odd. I expected to get peppered. Please don't assume I've heard of one, no matter how obvious it seems to you.

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