Miscellaneous

The Oath of Small Love I shall bear the idiosyncrasies of others with patience. I shall bear the clownish actions of my neighbor with patience. I shall bear the troublesome ways of my neighbor with patience. I shall conquer my moods. I shall conquer my passions. I will mortify my

Whew. Whatta week. In the aftermath of an NCAA auction party, a birthday dinner, and basketball watching, my Cave Man Diet has been crippled and I'm back on track to poor health. Hopefully, I can reverse the course today and actually eat right for an entire 48-hour

Today, I drink. I watch basketball, drink wine, and watch basketball. I should drink beer. I mean, last I checked, I'm a dude and dudes drink beer during the Tournament . . . I've been drinking beer and watching the first days of the Tournament for 25 years. But

Autobiographical Corner Another endorsement of the Cave Man Diet Two years ago, I hadn't sprinted in over a decade. I started trying it. It went poorly: I felt slow, stupid, and fat. The sprinting also resulted in severe pain in my feet. The orthopedic doctor told me I

A Dozen . . . . . . from Nassim Taleb: "The most painful moments are not those we spend with uninteresting people; rather, they are those spent with uninteresting people trying hard to be interesting." "The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases,

Fr. Martin points out [https://www.facebook.com/FrJamesMartin]: "Eight out of the 28 Jesuit colleges made it to the NCAA basketball tournament this year: Gonzaga, Georgetown, Xavier, Marquette, Creighton, Loyola Maryland, St. Louis University, and University of Detroit-Mercy. That's over one quarter of our schools.

Miscellany Seneca on Exercise Nassim Taleb is a fan of Seneca. Art De Vany (of Cave Man Diet fame) reads Taleb. Seneca, it turns out, backs De Vany's opinion regarding proper exercise. From Letter 15 [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_15]: > Now

"We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or munificence. However, gentleness, meekness, moderation, modesty, and humility are graces which ought to color everything we do." St. Francis de Sales

Not much blogging this morning. Our local high school played in the District Championship in Kalamazoo last night. We won. My godson (a Senior) is our starting point guard; my son is a back-up guard (a Freshman who was moved up for the playoffs). Late night=light blogging. * * * * * * * The

A friend sent along the above picture of his consolation after spending a long day at Disney with his daughter. I thought it was a great pic. BYCU Has anyone heard of the website Livability? From what I gather, it's a site dedicated to alerting people to great