Something for Sunday Morning
“In so far as it is loved, everything becomes a source of pleasure.” St. Thomas
Aquinas
Eric Scheske
Happy New Year
What would de Caussade [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Pierre_de_Caussade]
say about the new year? Would the author of The Sacrament of the Present Moment
condemn the constant "looking back/looking forward" disposition that marks these
days? I suspect he'd find it harmless
Something for Sunday Morning
"I want you to be happy on earth. But you won't be if you don't get rid of that
fear of suffering." Escriva
BYCU
New Years Edition
It's the last day of the year. 2010 was far better than 2009, and for that I'm
grateful. I plan to celebrate the end of the year with friends and family at the
local drinking club this afternoon, while watching bowl games. I
Thursday
Gearing Back Up
I have returned from my trip to the in-laws in Detroit, and now the Christmas
festivities are over, except for the 12 days of Christmas presents that we give
the kids. We give each kid a small present every day until the Epiphany, at
which time
From the Notebooks
Gabriel Marcel: "The less life is experienced as a captivity the less the soul
will be able to see the shining of that veiled, mysterious light." Homo Viator,
32.
Placed on the flipside: The more a soul experiences its captivity, its
limitations, and its darkness, the more it
TEE
Grosse Pointe, Michigan: home of residents rich enough to buy million-dollar
homes, but too cheap to keep their sidewalks clear of snow. Perhaps the
most-treacherous walking in Michigan's lower peninsula.
-- Mobile post
TEE
Mediterraneans scorn instructions but bow to authority; Anglo-Saxons bow to
instructions but scorn authority. Nassim Taleb
-- Mobile post
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"Demagoguery: a popular idea disliked by liberals." Bill Kauffman.
Random Thoughts
Tom Bombadil is kinda like Switzerland.
Hubris leads to humility, but normally against one's will.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and
hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of
hobgoblins, all of them