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Interesting bit from Wednesday’s meditation in Magnificat (Thursday is my Adoration night, and that’s when I catch up): It really isn’t up to us whether or not we’re going to pray, as though prayer were something we start. It’s up to us whether or not we’re going to agree to pray. Because prayer is going…
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The mention in comments earlier today of the recent Ayn Rand discussions (here and here) reminded me of something I ran across during those discussions and meant to link to, but never did. It’s an account by Michael Prescott, a former Objectivist, of why he was attracted to the philosophy in the first place, and…
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In my daily or almost-daily perusal of the new arrivals at eMusic, I often come across some great song and album titles. Best of the week so far: “The Truth Hurts So This Should Be Painless”. Another favorite which I swear I saw once but now can’t find was something like: “Depression Brought On By…
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The First Beautiful Thing I Ever Saw I was at the home of my maternal grandparents. I was probably about four years old, maybe a bit older. Some of the men had been out duck hunting. Later when I was old enough to hunt, I found it mainly boring, and I didn’t like killing things.…
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Just letting everybody know that I’ll be out of town for the weekend. I may have a chance to check in once or twice but will mostly be offline. Enjoy your weekend. Clare’s links to her pet photos in the comments (whatever thread that was) reminded me that I’ve been meaning to post this one.…
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Ok, I finally did this. If I tell you either the results or the length of time it took me to complete the test, you can probably guess the other: (1) melancholic (59%) / phlegmatic (41%) and (2) 45 minutes or so, i.e., too long. I kept getting hung up on questions that didn’t really…
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I was just reminded, at the Touchstone blog, that this is so-called “Banned Books Week.” Most of the incidents deplored in this posturing are simply disagreements about what books belong in a public or school library, or in a classroom, and it’s always irritated me (to an unreasonable degree, really, and I’m not sure why)…
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From The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes: It is alleged by a friend of my family that I used to suffer from insomnia at the age of four; and that when she asked me how I managed to occupy my time at night I answered, “I lie awake and think about the past.” —Fr. Ronald…
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Hope First One day last week Francesca Murphy said something in a comments thread that I wanted to pursue a bit further, but I was too busy. So I’ll do it now. Francesca said: In modern times, especially in the 19th century, Christianity re-presented itself, (partly) and partly was re-presented by others, as being essentially…
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Just finished watching it. Delightful. I can see why people are such big fans of it. I think I mentioned when it was discussed in the comments that I had seen bits and pieces while other family members were watching it, to which Ryan C replied that you really need to see it from the…
Light On Dark Water 