Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous Rambling Whew, I've nearly survived the basketball season: four kids, four leagues, including two in high school competition (JV-varsity). It felt like a part-time job occasionally. Marie and I got back from our last six-hour trip Friday evening and sighed relief. We have a couple of home

For the oriental gardeners out there: > Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson http://t.co/3y5tDOfumD > — Zen Moments (@Zen_Moments) February 28, 2015 [https://twitter.com/Zen_Moments/status/571762135564488704] I planted five pots

Time-is-tight weekend. Just this great quote today: "There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact." Mark Twain

I just learned that my professor, mentor in the faith, and friend Charles Rice died Wednesday [http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4015/Professor-Charles-Rice-Who-%E2%80%98Epitomized-All-That-Is-Best%E2%80%99-at-Notre-Dame-Passes-Away.aspx] . We lost touch over the years, last corresponding by email a few months ago, but he

Brews You Can Use I read once that the average lifespan of a blog is six months. I actually would've guessed three months, but maybe they count the blogs that start off strong, then peter out to one or two posts a month, limping along like that for

H.I.F. There's a race war going on, but it's black on black. This from talk show host Byron Allen, criticizing Al Sharpton for selling out to big media interests: “Why is Sharpton on TV every night on MSNBC? Because he endorsed Comcast's

Jamaica has officially decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use. Which would be great news if anyone in Jamaica had small amounts of marijuana.

Boston's city council is considering increasing its alcohol tax. The plan would raise an estimated $900 million billion trillion.

I recently re-ran across this passage from John C. h. Wu's (the Chinese Chesterton's) The Golden Age of Zen: "The first and second chapters of the Tao Teh Ching constitute the metaphysical background of Zen." I'm not exactly sure what to think

A group of teenagers in Colorado surprised their neighbors by shoveling 50 driveways and walkways for free. They didn't mean to. They were just too stoned to remember which house was theirs.