Thursday

Stream of Consciousness I had a nice surprise yesterday morning. The morning Mass was being said for my father's soul. I dutifully went, planning to join the half-dozen or so regulars in the pews. I walked into the church during the opening hymn and saw Marie and

Slow Blogging Wednesday

I enjoyed a beautiful evening with my middle boys, playing baseball; with my five smallest children, riding our bikes to the new car hop and eating ice cream outside while traffic whizzed by on U.S. 12; shooting baskets; doing some light work in the garden. With all that going

Tuesday

Autobiographical Corner A first in my life: I removed a tree stump. Actually, three tree stumps, but two were rooted together and came out as one. They'd been in my backyard for 15 years, tacitly taunting me, mocking my virility. I resolved to take them out. A friend

Monday

Easter Greetings Happy Easter. Augustine said a Christian should be an "alleluia from head to toe." It's a beautiful idea. I wish I could be an alleluia from just my elbow to my wrist, but I can keep trying and this is a wonderful time of

Something for Easter Morning

“When the disciples saw the risen Christ, they beheld “him as a reality in the world, though no longer of it, respecting the order of the world, but Lord of its laws. To behold such reality was different and more than to see a tree or watch a man step

Holy Saturday

Nyssa, Tolkien, and Gibson By killing Jesus, Satan had swallowed God's bait. He didn't know he had swallowed the Godhead, thereby inviting Full Being into his fortress of nothingness and bringing about the ontological fall of his nothingness. In the words of St. Gregory of Nyssa:

Good Friday

In the 1930s, the Times (London) asked G.K. Chesterton and others to write on the topic of "What's Wrong with the World Today." Chesterton sent back a two-word response: Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely, G.K. Chesterton "For all that ever was wrong,

Something Light for Good Friday

When Ole quit farming, he discovered that he was the only Lutheran in his new little town of Catholics. That was okay, but the neighbors had a problem with his barbequing beef every Friday. Since they couldn't eat meat on Friday, the tempting aroma was getting the best

Thursday

Great Video Gotta check out this video [http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff80.1.html]. Peter Schiff engages in his usual (and justified) Bernanke bashing. An economist comes to Bernanke's aid. After Schiff says Bernanke has never gotten anything right, the economist responds, "He's gotten

Wednesday

Obama and the Frog Drudge slayed me yesterday with this picture and the caption: "DYNAMIC DUO LEAD CHARGE ON IRAN." . . . . Remember those health care upbeat stories I linked to last week, including the one about favorable polling figures? It looks like the polls have already gone back to