Eric Scheske

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

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

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

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