Category: A Sampler of Posts
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Short lived.
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2 comments on Short lived.Something about this memoir of a severely malformed baby's short life, written by his 16-year-old sister, brought something home to me. One of those things I knew in my mind but that nevertheless struck me with new, raw power as I read her words. How crazy that a substance as unimaginably beautiful as the soul…
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Feeling fear.
I've never had trouble with the concept that Jesus felt physical pain, that He physically suffered. Seems obvious to me: If you have a body, it hurts sometimes. And that doesn't feel good, even if you know the pain is necessary and a sign of something good. Anybody who's given birth knows this. Pain is…
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I hope you are still reading Charlotte Was Both.
My heart leaps into my throat every time that blog comes up highlighted in my feed reader. I think: Oh Amy, how are you doing? And what have you got to tell us? She is writing about how things knit together, and I am experiencing a certain knit-togetherness too. Her Michael died suddenly, on the…
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Self awareness.
Here is a thesis that occurred to me over the weekend as I mused about success and failure, about weakness and willpower, about competing selves: Could it be that… once you KNOW what you should do… moral behavior, or "good" behavior, or "healthy" behavior (take your pick) is nothing more than the setting-up of…
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Via dolorosa.
Last Friday I was staying at a high-end casino and spa in Las Vegas, part of a vacation we take with Mark’s family, on his parents’ dime, every couple of years. (Vegas was chosen for its something-for-everybody nature. Even though I don’t think any of us did any gambling.) You know how when you’re…
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Speak, show, argue, listen, rebut, correct, pray.
Doctrinal Note On Some Aspects of Evangelization, a clarification on the faithful's responsibility to evangelize, produced by the CDF. (link is a pdf file of 14 pages). It's an argument that positive evangelization is still necessary, as well as a caution against attempts to put dishonesty and coercion at the service of the Gospel. This…
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Faith —> hope —> charity.
A friend of mine wrote to me on my post about Spe Salvi, where I'd written B16 begins with a discourse about the nature of Christian hope and how it intersects with faith. He talks about the "certainty of hope," which sounded paradoxical to me at first (isn't hope something that concerns the thing you…
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Specializing in generalities.
When I was a very little child someone bought for me a book. It lived at my grandparents’ house; I browsed through it whenever I visited. I remember it was a fat, large-size paperback, with cheap pages. I do not remember its name, but I think of it as the Big Book About Everything. That…
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The Dawkins delusion.
Amy has a link up to a debate between Richard Dawkins, atheist author of The God Delusion (yes, I know, he is also a biologist author of many excellent books about evolutionary science, including one that I like very much, but when you write a book called The God Delusion, you must be speaking either…
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Hot air.
My husband is being haunted by the ghost of Buckminster Fuller. I admit I didn’t know that much about the guy. If it weren’t for buckyballs, I might never have really noticed or cared that he is credited with the invention of the geodesic dome. I suppose that, up till a couple of days ago,…
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No experiments here.
I was helping Hannah pack boxes in her living room when I came across a plastic box containing what looked like someone’s forgotten snack. "Ew, what’s this?" She came over and peeked in the box. "Oh, it’s the mummification project!" I looked at her quizzically and she took it from me and showed me how…
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I wish I had been able to do this when I was studying for my oral prelim.
Going through our homemade phonics flashcards today: ou, ie, th, ck, ch, oy, oe, or, ar. ou as in "pronounce" was a new one, introduced yesterday. Oscar turned it over and stared at it for several seconds. I started to give him the answer and he held up a hand to stop me, screwing up…
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