Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous Rambling I've started something new: hybrid reading. That's my own term to describe digital reading in traditional book format. I decided to try it out when I found myself wanting to know the history of Poland better. My first thought was, "I'll

Miscellaneous Rambling: Towns I'm blessed to live in my hometown. Not many people who spent seven years in college can claim such a thing (unless we include "big city" within the definition of "hometown"). I'm further blessed to have four kids who

Nashville Ramblings This is Thomas Hart Benton's The Sources of Country Music, which is on display at the County Music Hall of Fame. I like it. It reminds me of a Grant Wood painting, which I guess isn't surprising. They're both apparently representatives of

Return from Nashville Marie and I took the three little kids to Nashville for their spring break trip. Alex and Abbie were able to get days off work and joined us, giving us a clear super-majority (7 out of 9 . . . ain't bad). We got back yesterday. Needless to

"With respect to self-talk, I might be at the golf course having the best game of my life and then suddenly find myself triple-bogeying the last five holes. How does this happen? Our unconscious belief about who we are and what we are capable of sets parameters for our

Random excerpts from Dorothy Day's diary: There is a Russian saying that if a man plants 3 trees in his life he will never go to hell. My love of peace and quiet inclines me always to want to do nothing. I have his same faults so we

You'd have to be a full-on idiot to accept any of this. I'm sure it's kinda fun, to sit around and figure out what you are, kinda like the way people analyze their personality traits, but geesh, to endow this stuff with more credibility

Miscellaneous Rambling Happy Easter Monday. Day two of 50 days. Plenty of time to contemplate the Mystery. Somewhere, Russell Kirk wrote a great summary of the history of the Shroud of Turin, but the heck if I can find it now. Nifty article: 10 Social Media Networks to Use Instead

"Kirk first encountered the Shroud while offhandedly visiting the Cathedral of San Giovanni Battista in Torino, Italy, in 1957 when he attended a Mont Pelerin Society conference. Here, he claimed, he encountered the face of God. “The face was wondrously distinct, almost accurate as a plaster death mask: a