> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://thedailyeudemon.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Tuesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/36806/
- Published: 2015-05-19T06:26:06.000Z
- Updated: 2015-05-19T06:26:06.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Miscellaneous-Photo-225x300.jpg "Miscellaneous Photo")

More Miscellaneous Rambling

Last week's spring blitz put me behind with blog post leads, so I broke this week's "MR" into two parts. \* \* \* \* \* \* \* Thanks, incidentally, to TDE readers who send me interesting links. It's greatly appreciative, especially in the spring when little league, other family commitments, and gardening makes time more scarce than a sense of decency at a Walt Disney Company Board meeting. \* \* \* \* \* \* \* A regular TDE reader tried to comment on my Waugh v. Merton post a few weeks ago, but comments were turned off (they turn off after about a week, to reduce spam). Anyway, he emailed me this: "I just loved the 7 volume *Journals*. Perhaps because within the Journal entries there are scores of comments about nature at the Abbey or outside his hermitage. Also think *Seeds of Contemplation* is a great book/instructional manual." He's right about *Seeds*. It is a good book, based on the small portions I've read. I've never read the *Journals*. Merton always makes me uncomfortable when he starts to stray. The mere fact that he (successfully) prevailed upon his Abbott to have Rachel Carson's *Silent Spring* read during dinner at the monastery (instead of, say, Scripture) jars me a bit. \* \* \* \* \* \* \* Still, I enjoy authors' journals, so I suspect I'd enjoy Merton's, but I'd want it in Kindle format so I could cut-and-paste easily for TDE commenting. Unfortunately, the Kindle version is pretty salty ($91). \* \* \* \* \* \* \* Why do I like journals? Hard to say, but it's probably a combination of seeing something "raw," which isn't much edited; seeing stuff that's a bit arcane; seeing stuff that wasn't good enough to publish by itself; seeing stuff that exposes the author's real soul, as opposed to stuff the author explicitly intended for public consumption. \* \* \* \* \* \* \* That being said, when you read journals, you get a lot of crap, too. There are a lot of bad thoughts that the author himself may not have agreed with, but since it's just a journal and not a piece that went through extensive inner debate and discussion with editors and peers, the thought never came to completion or a justifiably early death before publication. \* \* \* \* \* \* \* But that's part of the enjoyment, I suppose.