In the comments section of the mail-generating post, reader Bender links to this interview with Michelle Obama in which she tells Soledad O’ Brien: I am a mother first. Where do I get my joy and energy? First and foremost, from my kids. In the midst of this campaign, what I’ve done is I don’t campaign every day. I’m not gone for weeks on end. I will not go on a trip that will have me away for more than... Read more
Reviewed the book here (and highly recommend it – for some it might even be Lenten reading). Thanks to Gloria.TV, came across EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo interviewing author George Weigel on the book – excellent! Quickly transcribed excerpt – somewhat paraphrased: Thomas Aquinas learned a lot of his Aristotle from Muslim philosophers…A religious community [Islam] which for several hundred years ad been the ground for great speculative accomplishment not only in philosophy but in math and other sciences suffered a kind... Read more
Super Tuesday is on, ummm…Tuesday. And then Ash Wednesday follows, and the forty days of Lent, a time of quietening down – playing less, praying more. It seems like a perfect time for the over-harried American electorate to get centered, look within instead of without, and to beg Christ to draw near, to teach us, and to give us wisdom. A time to back away from “the world” and all of its priority-skewering noise, and focus on matters of the... Read more
Am still under the weather, so here are a few videos. First up, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and BrynTerfel, Battle of the Baritones – kinda dumb, kinda cute – who do you prefer? That’s not really a very good comparison. Let’s try them separately with the same music – since they mention Ombra mai fu, we’ll try that. Here’s Dimitri singing the piece in concert And Bryn – not recording“>in concert, sadly, but a recording. They’re both wonderful, but I say Bryn... Read more
The Wall Street Journal has an editorial up entitled McCain’s Apostacies. Think about that for a minute. His differences with his party are not differences, they’re “apostacies.” He is, for some, a heretic who has departed too sharply away from the dogmas and sacraments of The Church of Conservatism. And he’s the pro-life guy! I’ve been thinking for a while that the hyperpartisanship on both sides was beginning to resemble the Protestant/Catholic sectarian troubles in Northern Ireland. Hate and malice... Read more
Loreena McKennitt, (Canadian singer, composer) Lyrics, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Scene 1, PROSPERO’S EPILOGUE And now my charms are all o’erthrown, And what strength I have’s mine own; Which is most faint; now t’is true, I must be here confined by you […] But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands: Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want Spirits to enforce, art... Read more
I’m feeling a bit punk – feverish and swollen glands – so I’m just going to throw this question out and invite answers from readers and from other bloggers: In 100 words or less: What’s Wrong With the World? About 100 years ago, a British paper invited many writers to answer the same question, What’s Wrong With the World? They extended the invitation to G. K. Chesterton who wrote back, Dear Sirs; I am. Sincerely, G.K. Chesterton I will take... Read more
I’m feeling a bit punk – feverish and swollen glands – so I’m just going to throw this question out and invite answers from readers and from other bloggers: In 100 words or less: What’s Wrong With the World? About 100 years ago, a British paper invited many writers to answer the same question, What’s Wrong With the World? They extended the invitation to G. K. Chesterton who wrote back, Dear Sirs; I am. Sincerely, G.K. Chesterton I will take... Read more
What is it about Florida? Every time the people in Florida vote, the whole nation seems to lose its mind. Hillary’s largely illusory Florida victory has Chris Matthews near tears, probably because he fears grovelling to President Hillary (who will make him pay for his past heresy) so that’s a little understandable, but there is a lot of hot-headed angst going on out there. My email is full of fulminating folks on the right who are either furious about McCain... Read more
My Li’l Bro Thom sent this video writing: I was in tears. A stunning and brilliant idea…the way the names keep going and going and going…and then it drops. Like I said: tears. I watched it and had the same reaction – the moment when the screen listing the names of our 9/11 dead collapses is reminiscent of the towers going down, and it’s like a punch to the gut. Terrible and beautiful and I wondered, “how could I have... Read more
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