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Eric Scheske

Tuesday

New Socks Max (6) was content Sunday night. He was sitting in front of eight pairs of new socks: four white, four dark blue. Marie said to me, "Look what Max has. New socks." Max was grinning. Marie explained, "He's never gotten new socks before.

Monday

Queer Winds Blowing Ahead The spring blitz continued over the weekend. We got a call at 9:00 Friday night, telling us that our son needed to be at a ball diamond sixty minutes away by 7:00 a.m. the next morning. Yuck. I spent all morning Saturday at

Something for Sunday Morning

"Without patience our expectation [of the spiritual life] degenerates into wishful thinking. Patience comes from the word 'patior,' which means 'to suffer.' . . . What seems a hindrance becomes a way; what seems an obstacle becomes a door." Henri J.M. Nouwen

Brews You Can Use

Hung Morning Small hangover this morning. A client hosted a "dry run" for its new restaurant/bar. Oberon is always good, especially when it's free. I'm paying for it this morning, though. * * * * * * * I'd always wondered about this: "Irish distillers, like their

Thursday

Thursday Miscellany I guess we have an Arab Miss America, which is fine with me, but this line from the Detroit Free Press puzzles me: "she is the first open Arab American to win Miss USA [http://www.freep.com/article/20100519/NEWS06/100519068/1001/rss01]." Are there

Painting

Spring concert at the parochial school went pretty late last night, so no time for blogging this morning. Seen at the Inn of St. John's in Plymouth, Michigan -- Mobile post Location:No Blogging Wednesday [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=No%20Blogging%20Wednesday&z=10]

Tuesday

More Conspiracy Seeds So, a man on the inside comes forward and says, "The big boys are artificially manipulating the gold and silver markets." It's a fairly damning accusation, from a guy (I've been led to believe) with the credentials to make the allegations.

Monday

Dollars, Happiness, Mass, and More Oh oh: "The beneficial impact of last weekend's $1 trillion “shock and awe” intervention by Europe to save Greece and safeguard the Euro is fading-even more quickly than officials had feared [http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/05/15/232281/el-

Something for Sunday Morning

"Holiness means the eager acceptance of every trial sent them by God. . . It is the philosophers' stone that changes into gold all their worries, their troubles, all their sufferings." de Caussade, Abandonment. Whenever I fear that I'm getting too holy for my own good (chuckle)

Brews You Can Use

Grappling with Grapes My grape vines arrived yesterday. I opened the box and read the instructions: "After the plants are set, select the largest, strongest cane and cut it back so that two nodes or buds remain. Cut off all other canes." Great. What's a "