Something for Sunday Morning
Learn to depend on God alone and serve Him with a wholly pure and detached
heart. Then you will be able to say 'I do not regret that I have given myself up
to Love.'
St. Edith Stein
Eric Scheske
The Weekend Eudemon
Day trip to Frankenmuth for the Summer Music Festival
[http://www.frankenmuthfestivals.com/?page_id=4]. Beer and polka music, both of
which are best enjoyed in moderation, but this trip makes it hard to be moderate
in either. There's music and beer everywhere. Of course, seven children
Brews You Can Use
Now you're just taking all the fun out of beer: 1st International Brewers
Symposium Hop Flavor and Aroma [http://www.mbaa.com/ibs/program.htm].
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Pretty neat site: Here's to Beer [http://herestobeer.com/]. You have to input
your age (prove you're over 21)
The Quick-Hitting Eudemon
Yikes, Michigan has lots of pikes: A lake in Austria has been closed to
swimmers
because a giant pike nicknamed 'jaws' has been putting the bite on bathers.
[http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2455000.html] It's a pretty scary fish, as
far as fresh
Swamped
Out of the vacation frying pan and into the work fire. I'm swamped at the office
and have no time for blogging. A few quick things:
For those who missed it, Amy Welborn closed Open Book
[http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/]. Quite shocking. She brought in nearly
4,
Hate Metric? Hate Bonds?
Over at Chesterton and Friends
[http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/2007/08/summer-slow-down.html], the
editor of Gilbert Magazine, Sean Dailey, made the following observation about
the metric system:
> The metric system was developed by French Enlightenment dullards and is
tailor-made for athiests: none of the measurements
The Return Eudemon
My paternal grandfather came to the United States in 1913, before WWI and the
Bolsheviks taking over. He came from a German colony in Russia. He floated into
Baltimore, then went to Cleveland, learned the trade of a tool and die maker,
and moved to Detroit and worked non-stop
Something for Sunday Morning
"Arrogance and boldness belong to those who are accursed of God."
St. Clement I of Rome
Something Religious for Saturday Morning
Good Christians are many, if it weren't for all those people: the whiners, the
manipulators, the crooks, the liars, the heretics, the greedy. But Christ put up
with all of them and remained sinless. The Bible recounts the disciples's
buffoonery and selfishness, yet Christ communed with
A Writer's Random Thought
There is an amiable muse and a mordant muse. I'm not sure which should be
indulged more. The amiable muse is more edifying; the mordant muse, more
entertaining.