Weekend 629.0
I was scanning old hard drives to find an image and realized I could post one image every day from those archives and have enough content for years. Digital footprint Continue Reading →
Weekend 628.0
A veritable hodgepodge of quality articles and excerpts from my weekend wanderings. (1) Excerpt from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage by Lord Byron: The Niobe of nations! there she stands,Childless and crownless, Continue Reading →
The s(pace) between football matches: post sabbatical ruminations
This rootedness of reality in the concrete presence of the past is one of the things which makes history so important. We need to know where we’ve been in order Continue Reading →
Weekend 627.0 (Grief at the Frontier)
“The artist is continually going round in egocentric circles. He has consciously severed himself from the past, whose heritage means nothing to him.” — J.B. Lotz This is my sabbatical Continue Reading →
Weekend 626.0
Here we are.
Weekend 625.0
Just back from Portland and catching up. TO-DAY is the last Sunday of Ordinary Time and the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. (1) The Church Continue Reading →
2024 Retreat at St. Joseph’s Abbey
“Settings became ‘silent characters.’” — Ruth D. Nelson “Man’s being reaches out beyond what is seen, towards the unseen: he comes from God and makes his way towards God, at Continue Reading →
Weekend 624.0
We hope that it will be unlike anything else on this earth: a fair, amusement park, an exhibition, a city from the Arabian Nights, a metropolis of the future; in Continue Reading →
Weekend 623.0
“…clad in a mantle of silver and blue, fair as the twilight in Elven-home; her dark hair strayed in a sudden wind, and hew brows were bound with gems like Continue Reading →
Weekend 622.0 (fragments that can shore up one’s ruins…)
The powers of evil have, theologically, two characteristics. First, they are really evil: evil is not merely in the mind as some philosophers have suggested, but is a force which Continue Reading →