Eric Scheske

A few other thoughts related to yesterday's post about the world of total work and whether one ought to love his work. In his classic study, Pieper was not really criticizing the world of total work that I mostly live in right now. He was criticizing the notion

Here's a decent piece by Peter Lawler at The Imaginative Conservative about whether a person should love his work [http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/06/dont-make-love-and-work.html] . It criticizes the work notions coming out of Silicon Valley these days, so I like it, but I'm not

Miscellaneous Rambling Another whirlwind holiday weekend: Black Wednesday, followed by a (mostly) hangover-free Thanksgiving, then a 40-hour trip to Detroit that entailed a lot more driving once I was there, then over to Portage (a Kalamazoo suburb) to get my son to his high school basketball scrimmage, then to the

H.I.F. The Anglican Church will not be denied: It will lead mainstream Christianity to the pits of the absolute absurd: Church of England Lady Bishop Advocates Nudism [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/2015/11/church-of-england-lady-bishop-advocates-nudism.html] .

From Bill Kauffman's Poetry Night at the Ballpark and Other Scenes from an Alternative America: "Joseph Smith ran for president in 1844, at least until a mob killed him in Illinois. He was thus the first U.S. presidential candidate to be assassinated. (Those in the best

H.I.F. Seen at a Reddit thread. Funny stuff, and even though I think the Western policies since the fall of the Ottoman Empire have contributed to this problem, the attempt of the multiculturalists to absolve Islam is ridiculous . . . as outlined in this clever piece. The Jihadists are tired

“Thanksgiving Day originated in New England when the Puritans realized they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians.” Mark Twain “Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.” Samuel Johnson “Beggar that I

My final "outdoor" (i.e., "non-coldframe") harvest of the year. I brought it in Thursday evening. Big batches of lettuce, kale, and spinach. It's probably more than we can eat. I took these two pics of some of my coldframe spinach Sunday afternoon, after

Miscellaneous Rambling Whew. Quite the storm on Saturday. That was one of the top 5 weather turns in my lifetime. And now it's supposed to melt away. * * * * * * * Even though I forgot to put the cover on the cold frames Friday night, I got them on Saturday morning after