Eric Scheske

Twitterables Courtesy of Bill Kauffman: Henry James's definition of a cosmopolite: a little bit of everything and not much of anything. Three a.m., the soul's midnight, as Ray Bradbury calls it. Conversation is the casualty in the empire of noise. Ray Bradbury's Dandelion

Miscellaneous Rambling Whatta glorious Indian Summer! I'm really enjoying the extra time outdoors. I've done all sorts of stuff to get the garden ready for next spring, so much so that I'm reminded of Luke 12 and the parable of the fool who stored

> A must-read: Cardinal Danneels: A Wolf in Shepherd's Clothing | The Stream https://t.co/dHHa3YMfy5 > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) October 20, 2015 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/656611295920267265]

One of the best Catholic news pieces appeared last weekend at National Catholic Register: Monks, Beer and Christendom [http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/monks-beer-and-christendom]. It combines a handful of things that have interested me for awhile. First, it revolves around the Monks of Nursia, which I

From the Gardening Journals I had a great day last Sunday: getting the garden ready for winter. It's possibly my most pleasant task of the year: pulling up the tomato and pepper plants that were destroyed by Saturday night's freeze, adding to the compost pile, doing

Fascinating episode on EWTN Live earlier this month: "After suffering a spinal injury and praying for Cardinal Newman's intercession, Guest Deacon Jack Sullivan's healing on August 15, 2011 sparked calls for the Cardinal's beautification." Link to MP3 [http://www.ewtn.com/vondemand/

Speaking of Ayn Rand (see yesterday's Rambling), I think I found another Catholic libertarian: Jay Wesley Richards. He doesn't call himself a libertarian in "Why Libertarians Need God [http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2014/03/libertarians-and-religion.html] ," but he has clearly spent a

Miscellaneous Rambling Ah, one of nature's great gifts is unfolding: the Indian Summer. We had a freeze Saturday night, followed with gorgeous weather on Sunday and a gorgeous forecast for the next ten days. It's definitely my favorite time of the year, weather-wise. * * * * * * * Interesting essay

Rough sports day yesterday. First, Meg loses her cross-country meet at the last second (18:40:9 to 18:40:7), then Michigan loses to Michigan State even though MSU, literally, held the lead 00:00 minutes of the game. I thought MSU played a decent game and I