Fighting Back versus Resignation
(1) A quote from The Power Of Silence: Against The Dictatorship Of Noise by Robert Cardinal Sarah: “Today the danger lies in the unbridled activism of the modern world. We Continue Reading →
Month: December 2019
2018/2019 by the numbers…
I’m using my retreats as bookends so the timeline covers the period between December 7-9, 2018 and December 20-22, 2019. What I didn’t know before my first retreat ended is Continue Reading →
Christmas 2019 Sabbatical
(1) Glenn Gould’s U.S. Television Debut: Bernstein Conducting Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor (YouTube) (2) The link between Haruki Murakami / Seiji Ozawa and Kingdom Hearts via Continue Reading →
2019 Advent Retreat at St. Joseph’s Abbey (Part 1)
“Take away from a traveler the hope of arriving, and his courage to go on is broken.” — William of Saint Thierry My retreats are a bit like book ends Continue Reading →
Spitfire
“I didn’t know what to do. And I flew round in circles with ten people following me around in circles, them looking at me as a leader, and me not Continue Reading →
Weekend 455.0
Lead, Kindly Light“This world is a scene of conflict between good and evil. The evil not only avoids but persecutes the good; the good cannot conquer except by suffering. Good Continue Reading →
Penn Station
(1) This Is Why Your Holiday Travel Is Awful (Politico) “Penn Station is the second most heavily trafficked transit hub in the world, trailing only Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station. The station Continue Reading →
Advent 2019
“You know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed; the night is advanced, Continue Reading →