Eric Scheske

One doesn't often run across this dichotomy: > Professor Morson puts it: “Dostoyevsky believed that lives are decided at critical moments, and he therefore described the world as driven by sudden eruptions from the unconscious. By contrast, Tolstoy insisted that although we may imagine our lives are decided

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West had their baby over the weekend but they waited until today to reveal the name. When asked why they waited so long, Kim and Kanye said, "We're very private people." In the United Kingdom, a sperm donor has fathered 54 children.

Pictures of a pile of spinach and kale that I harvested on December 1st. None of these greens were taken from the cold frame, which is bursting with spinach right now. I have a legitimate chance of providing fresh non-gmo greens from my garden until Christmas. It's always

Miscellaneous Rambling Happy Pearl Harbor Day, so to speak. * * * * * * * It's a good day to remember the large degree of fiction fed to us by our country's institutions. WWII is often touted as America's greatest moment. And allow no doubt: America flexed some serious muscle

> "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." - Charles Dickens pic.twitter.com/UkWQnAgkAN [https://t.co/UkWQnAgkAN] > — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) December 3, 2015 [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/status/672223570572009472]

> The untold story of the Titanic's Catholic priest who went down hearing confessions | Blogs | LifeSite https://t.co/Q8jgIr9k3a > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) December 4, 2015 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/672914284142321665]

Man, I really, really wish I liked bourbon and whiskey: > Southern writer Walker Percy insisted that a good julep should hold at least 5 ounces of bourbon: 5 ounces bourbon/Several sprigs fresh spearmint/4 to 5 tablespoons superfine sugar/Crushed ice . . . Into a silver julep cup, a highball

From the Notebooks A Buddhist tries to answer that age-old question: How to live in the present but also plan prudently for one's future. I'm not sure he gets us there, but I think it's helpful: "Living mindfully in the present does not

Related to posts for the past two days. Also calls into question the whole Pascalian criticism of "busy-ness" and the (supposedly, according to the classical tradition) numb-skull avoidance of ennui through constant activity. From Escriva's Furrow: > Sadness and uneasiness grow in proportion to the time