Miscellaneous

From the Notebooks What can a man like DH Lawrence tell us about the afterlife? He may have intuited quite a bit, even if he didn't understand it himself. In his excellent little book, Studies in Classic American Literature, Lawrence wrote: > The central law of all organic

Graduation Day Alex graduated from high school yesterday. I'm not sure I've ever felt such mellow sadness. I wasn't crying or anything like that. But I was sad, no doubt about it, and if I could turn the clock back and give him another

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly The quiet Catholic convert and scholar Gerard Casey reviews the case for conservative libertarians. Required reading for everyone who clings to the worn-out idea that libertarians are godless antinomians. . . . more>> [http://lewrockwell.com/orig10/casey-g2.1.1.html] Gadgets zapping your brain power?

"You cannot learn humility from books; you learn it by accepting humiliations. Humiliations are not meant to torture us; they are gifts from God. These little humiliations--if we accept them with joy--will help us to be holy, to have a meek and humble heart like Jesus." Mother Teresa

Freaky May This wild May has blown me away. Not literally, thank goodness, but figuratively. I actually watched the Weather Channel this week for more than "Your Local Forecast." I don't remember a May with a mix of snow, 85-degree days, storm-after-storm, and a string of

My son has his final day of high school today. Sad, but life plods on.

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly Chesterton sighting, and it's a big one: Ian Kerr has written a new monster GKC biography. And the Telegraph reviews it. Unfortunately, the Telegraph pretty much pans it. . . . more>> [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8509157/G-K-Chesterton-ABiography-by-Ian-Ker-review.html] Do

Twisted Days Sacrilege! On a Sunday no less. I attended my daughter's Spring choir concert yesterday. We first had to sit through the middle school choirs. One of them sang Three Dog Night's Joy to the World, which contains this great lyric: "I never understood

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly New Olympic events: knifing, the bong hit, and the sexual assault course. No wait, that's just Rio's other side. What will the world see in 2016? . . . more>> [http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=110510/rio] Nobody