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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.
Eric Scheske
Monday
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
Sunday
“Christian joy is granted to those who understand natural joy.” Paul VI.
Happy Gaudete Sunday.
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> "Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity." - Thomas Merton
> — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) December 11, 2015
[https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/status/675322519692435456]
Friday
My gift to you: The Holiday Tom.
It's my own concoction, though I know with virtual 100% certainty that it's been
made many, many times. It's not very complicated and it's basically the Tom
Collins made with vodka.
Here goes: 1/2
Thursday
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
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Wednesday
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
Conan
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.
Tuesday
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