Eric Scheske

> Autumn Ocean pic.twitter.com/6SRY4EryvP [https://t.co/6SRY4EryvP] > — Ellen Fraher (@ellenfraher) October 6, 2016 [https://twitter.com/ellenfraher/status/784157824783937540]

“There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.” I remembered those words by Dorothy Day as I walked through my community garden plot yesterday, discovering that some dirt bag had stolen half of my winter squash: my non-gmo, organically-fertilized winter

Sir Gavin unleashes the Pen of Truth yet again: "Now, obviously we're angry at the Muslims responsible. Dahir Adan was the Somalian who did the stabbings in Minnesota, while Afghan Ahmad Khan Rahami appears to be responsible for the ten bombs surrounding NYC. They were both immigrants

More Miscellaneous Rambling St. Francis' feast day today. One of my favorite anecdotes: St. Francis journeyed to Egypt in the middle of the Fifth Crusade and walked into Saracen territory to convert the “Soldan of Babylon” (the Muslim ruler of Egypt and the Holy Land), even though the Soldan

Miscellaneous Rambling This was wardrobe-changover weekend. For a large family, we live in a small house. Only 2,100 square feet, a "hardship" that is significantly alleviated by an additional 2,100 square feet of living space in the basement but alleviated enough. The result: Marie and my

> Things I trust more than Hillary and Trump pic.twitter.com/gEhVzDCPSw [https://t.co/gEhVzDCPSw] > — Meninist (@MeninistTweet) October 1, 2016 [https://twitter.com/MeninistTweet/status/782283220826009600]

The Month of the Saints: Lisieux, Francis, Avila, Bruno, Ignatius of Antioch, Luke, Anthony Claret, Simon, Jude, John Paul the Great, and John XXIII.

Great police report. Note: I haven't verified the reliability:

Wednesday was "National Drink Beer Day." Wednesday isn't a bad drinking day. When I was in college, it was Number 3 on list of party days (Friday, Saturday, Wednesday, Thursday, Tuesday, Monday, Sunday . . . at least in my cloudy estimation/recollection). But still, you'd think

"The reality of scheming, planning, wondering, planning, uncertainty as to what to do. The lot of most people. It occupies so much of one's thoughts, one can well see how people can think these days so little of God." Day "It is so hard to