Eric Scheske

"Santayana, who was very smart on the subject of the end of life, remarked that one of the reasons older people often grow grumpy about the world is that they, with the presentiment of their own death, can't see what good it can be without them in

I was explaining to my wife last night that when you die you get reincarnated but must come back as a different creature. She said she would like to come back as a cow. I said "You're obviously not listening."

So why haven't I weighed on on Trump? I don't know. Maybe I just haven't had enough time, but, like pretty much American, I've been thinking about him a lot. Here, in no particular order, are some of my thoughts: 1. I

My neighbour knocked on my door at 2:30 a m. Can you believe that ... 2:30 a m? Luckily for him I was still up playing my bagpipes.

Miscellaneous Rambling So I searched the TDE archives for any reference to "gaudete," and I came across this excerpt from the Monday after Gaudete Sunday: "I kinda feel like Gaudete Sunday ushered in the Advent season for me. Everything . . . was [busy]/ While at Mass Saturday night, it

“Christian joy is granted to those who understand natural joy.” Paul VI. Happy Gaudete Sunday.

> "Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity." - Thomas Merton > — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) December 11, 2015 [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/status/675322519692435456]

A Random Passage "Jack [Kerouac] 'believed in a conservative working-class America' and in 'baseball, the Virgin Mary, Buddha, and apple pie,' according to his friend, the Beat publisher John Montgomery. Naturally, he supported constitutional Republican Robert Taft for president in 1952." Bill Kauffman "