Eric Scheske

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Easter

Easter

"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

How To Halt or Disengage From an Overtalker

How To Halt or Disengage From an Overtalker

From Well + Good

Epstein on Small Talk

Epstein on Small Talk

Small talk is best thought of as an art, a minor but nonetheless real one.

Mystery: Numinous, yet decipherable

Mystery: Numinous, yet decipherable

From the Hedgehog Review

The musical note that can trigger cold sweats and sightings of the dead

The musical note that can trigger cold sweats and sightings of the dead

From The Spectator

The Spokane Word

The Spokane Word

The Plague of Thoughtlessness

Photo by Vishnu R Nair on Pexels.com [https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-at-concert-1105666/]Sometimes modern perplexities call for ancient wisdom. Today, St. Thomas Aquinas’ warning about the vice of “thoughtlessness” may shine a light on contemporary discourse—if trite prattle even qualifies as discourse. More to the point, we

I Returned from my Annual Pilgrimmage to the Detroit Slums

Standing outside a gay bar in Highland ParkAnother whirlwind holiday weekend. I won’t bore you with the autobiographical details, but I made my annual daredevil trip down McNichols Road in Detroit, which is also known as “Six Mile Road,” which runs two blocks south of notorious Eight Mile. The

So, Were They Eating Pangolins or What?

Bric-a-Brac Thursday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RePybi45jO0 Today's TDE entry is, well, brick-a-brac: a selection of items of modest value. If I make you laugh and give you one interesting piece of information, my efforts on this post will be gratified. The title reminds me of

Miscellany

England after 1688 and bears in the gay community Rise of the Moneyed I'm enjoying volume 4 of Peter Ackroyd's history of England: Revolution: The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo [https://amzn.to/2GJFCCi]. I wanted to