This, that, and the other.

Still tinkering with emacs, but I’ve got my main use-cases more or less ironed-out: email, RSS feeds, and writing like this. I can toggle light and dark modes and even turn my my desk lights on and off. It’s easy to see why people just opt to do everything with it. I still need to get my head around the some of the text-editing shortcuts. Yes, I’m aware of evil-mode; I was running in to a lot of conflicts and whatnot with some of the packages I was using and was getting tired of continually adding exceptions and workaround in my config file.

Still dipping in and out of Pessoa. The individual texts are beautiful, but the overall tone is sort of depressing and the speaker (whoever that is) is continuously struck by the banality of life, but also seems to have come to peace with it. Most of the time, anyway. Religious references pop up here and there, but nothing that would have you conclude he’s any sort of believer. Pessoa himself was something of an occultist, apparently, but Soares sort of drifts along between the day-to-day grind of life and the interior castles of his books and dreams.

For study, I’ve started Congar’s I Believe in the Holy Spirit, which I got last year for Christmas. It’s slow going so far. Same for De Sales, but that’s only a chapter at a time as part of morning prayer.

Ordination is in one week’s time. Lots to do between now and then, including wrapping up some stuff at work in advance of a few weeks of year-end PTO. Last night was the middle school band concert, which was lovely. Today was a pair of basketball games. Next week has a couple of parties, and then family begins to arrive. Ordination, and I’m on the mass schedule as of the following day. I stay at my home parish until January 5, which is when my assignment officially starts. If you’re the praying sort, and I hope you are, remember me and the other candidates (two of which are preparing for the priesthood). And thank you.