Miscellaneous

Regular blogging resumes tomorrow.

Happy New Year, everyone. Be careful out there tonight. > Episode 15: Autobiographical Holiday Ruminations https://t.co/iDQkngVFYJ > — The Weekly Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) December 31, 2018 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/1079561550019678208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > Planned Parenthood Defends Bill Cosby: 'Sexual Assault Is Only 3% Of

Detroit Another trip to Detroit Thursday. We spent yesterday downtown, exploring the sites. I continue to be impressed. This time, we ventured to New Center [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Center,_Detroit], taking the QLine from the Detroit River through the gut of Woodward Avenue for about two miles

Marie bought me this book [https://amzn.to/2AiimFB] for Christmas. I'm only 5% of the way through it, but so far, highly recommended. I've laughed out loud at least three times. Hungover: The Morning After and One Man's Quest for the Cure

Miscellaneous Rambling Little Kid: Santa gave me coal in my stocking last year. I tried to get even with him by putting out cookies laced with cyanide. That bastard found out and killed my dad." Wow: Witches now outnumber Presbyterians in the U.S. Link [https://sg.news.yahoo.

Another Christmas whizzes by. They're getting easier, though. I told my kids that, when they were little, we would finish opening presents and they'd all be standing there, wanting Marie and me to put together or play X, Y, or Z. We then had to play/

"He is born poor, and he teaches us that happiness is not to be found in an abundance of earthly goods. He comes into the world without any ostentation, encouraging us to be humble and not to depend on the applause of men." Francis Fernandez

“He rules the world with truth and grace.” –Isaac Watts ++ “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” –Charles Dickens ++ “The Incarnation”¦illuminates and orders all other phenomena, explains both our laughter and our logic, our fear of the dead and our knowledge

Link to Episode [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2018/12/22/episode-14-pagan-practices-in-christianity-the-jesus-prayer-autobiographical-tao] . Link to Show Notes [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/blog/2018/12/22/episode-14-pagan-practices-in-christianity-the-jesus-prayer-autobiographical-tao] : Next Week: I plan on producing a podcast next week, over the holidays, but it'll probably be unusual fare. Sol Invictus. No, Christmas

> "As an event in the history of war, the Christmas Truce of 1914 is barely a footnote; it had no major effects on the fighting or outcome of World War I. But in the history of peace, the truce is a powerful story." https://t.co/e249ImCDwg