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Archive: August 2006

cool website

Dom pointed me to Etsy, an e-Bay like site devoted to crafts and handmade goods. Browsing through the quilts section I noticed that many of the sellers were selling at very low prices. Some great deals here, I’d almost feel guilty buying them...

quote of the day

“The intellectual life is not the only road to God, nor the safest, but we find it to be a road, and it may be the appointed road for us.” —C. S. Lewis “Learning in Wartime” (in Weight of Glory). hat tip to Fr. James V...

Aphorisms from Aquinas

� Everything evil is rooted in some good, and everything false in some truth. � However much evil is multiplied, it is never able completely to swallow good. � Good can be realized in purer form than evil. For there is some good in which no evil is...

Bella’s first music video

At last, the footage of Bella’s first Exersaucer experience.

When I tested this out, Bella started singing along. Evidently she approves of Daddy’s choice of a theme song.

seen on a bumper sticker

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
Ugh. Dualism. False dichotomy. In fact we are both bodies and souls, both physical and spiritual beings.

another fine quote

Apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.
—St Rose of Lima
My patron saint, chosen at confirmation.
Hat tip to Curt Jester, Jeff Miller.

Wanna Laugh?

Put a three month old baby in an Exersaucer and watch her lunge about trying to put everything into her mouth at once. Including the objects that are not supposed to go into mouths. Tongue sticking out, little grunts of effort. Adorable. Until she...

Poetry Wednesday

I’ve been meaning for some time to start occasionally posting some poems. To get myself back into the habit of reading poetry and to share those poems with my few but faithful readers. This morning Danielle Bean sadly announced the death of...

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