The Anchoress
Via Pianogirl. This is pretty wonderful: Read more
Via Pianogirl. This is pretty wonderful: Read more
“The temptation to acedia is an invitation to abandon involvement and leave the pangs of creativity to others.”, — Michael Casey, Fully Human, Fully Divine “…my capacity for joy shrivels up and, like drought-stricken grass, I die down to the roots to wait it out. The simplest acts demand a herculean effort…I am observing my life more than living it. I recognize in all of this the siege of what the desert monks termed the “noonday demon.” It suggests that... Read more
A Puffy-Eye’d Crybaby with Monkey Face Inside Catholic is reposting something I’d forgotten that I’d written, and upon re-reading, I think it’s worth recommending to you: I knelt at my seat, thanking and welcoming Jesus, as I’d been taught, and suddenly I was in the grip of something I had never felt before — an indescribable sweetness, an overwhelming sense of . . . what, exactly? I could not have then articulated the ringing sense, deep within myself, of “holy,... Read more
I’m going to ask a favor of my readers who pray, to keep the intentions of a few young women in their prayers, particularly for the next week. First up, Elder Son’s Sweet Girlfriend. This kid has been going to grad school full time (and earning all-A’s) while working full time, and managing to pull it all off as she commutes between two states. Last semester was an absolute killer, but she never gave up. Now, it looks like she... Read more
Collected in my tab-bar since I started feeling cruddy – might as well share with you all the things I have either read or “been meaning to get to reading…” All submitted mostly without comment, because I’m still not 100%. “We are at war…”: The president went on to say that while America will strengthen its defenses, “we will not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because... Read more
UPDATE: Good for Cafferty, who went all-in for Obama way back when: The differences between Barack Obama and John McCain couldn’t be more well-defined. Obama wants to change Washington. McCain is a part of Washington and a part of the Bush legacy. Yet the polls remain close. Doesn’t make sense…unless it’s race. Obama certainly has brought “change” to Washington; he’s brought Chicago to DC. As to the rest, some of us simply saw through the Obama-hype and MSM-burnish. It might... Read more
…sittin’ around, talkin’ about faith and society: William Buckley and Malcolm Muggeridge on Sharing the Christian Faith – Watch more Videos at Vodpod. Went looking for this after reading Peter Wehner’s thoughts on Brit Hume’s remarks on Tiger Woods. Also, Bill O’ Reilly touches base with Hume over what he meant by his initial remarks. To those who wonder if I am as uncomfortable with Hume discussing religion in this clip, as I was earlier, the answer is no; in... Read more
Neoneocon rouses me from my couch that I may link to her fascinating post, one that seems relevant to our day. She offers a quote from a book (written by an American “man of the left”) recounting the attitudes of his interviewees regarding a certain moment in the history of Germany: National Socialism was a repulsion of my friends against parliamentary politics, parliamentary debate, parliamentary government—against all the higgling and the haggling of the parties and the splinter parties, their... Read more
I know that header could describe the state of the whole nation, right now; we’re in a funk. But really, I am simply down with a bit of a fever/sore throat/immune system thing, and shivers. So I am taking it easy today. Woke up with this on my mind, though: “someone’s son has to be the priest; someone’s child must be the soldier, and the cop.” I have no idea why that was with me. When my kids were growing... Read more
Yesterday, Ed Morrissey looked at this piece by Peter Beinart: Peter Beinart makes an interesting, if somewhat contradictory, argument at the Daily Beast regarding Dick Cheney’s argument that the Obama administration doesn’t really think it’s fighting a war against terrorists. On one hand, Beinart argues that the Obama administration successfully rebuked Cheney through its reference to its own rhetoric, in which they used the term “war” as recently as the inauguration almost a year ago. Beinart then argues that Cheney... Read more
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