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Rules and relations Tuesday of the 2nd Week of Ord...
Reflexión en las lecturas de hoy Lunes del la II s...
extra Missam Our pastor is heading out of town for...
I preached all four masses this past weekend, and ...
Back at it Not so bleak indeed. The highs may reac...
Currently reading: Elric of Melniboné by Michael M...
Currently reading: The Diary of a Country Priest b...
The not-so-bleak midwinter Only 3 more masses at m...
Homily for the Solemnity of the Holy Family It is ...
Feast of St. Stephen the Protomartyr (and deacon) ...
More pictures from Saturday, courtesy of my oldest...
Believe, Teach, Practice The buzz is just starting...
First Mass
On the cusp Starting tomorrow, I’m on PTO th...
This, that, and the other. Still tinkering with em...
Trees
There’s nothing in life that’s less r...
Notes on Notes I wrapped up Notes from Underground...
Currently reading: The Book of Disquiet by Fernand...
En route
As predicted, lots of putzing around. Hung some bl...
They say that people can be divided into two group...
Books on Deck I am closing in on the end of The Id...
The Diocese announced our assignments today, so I ...
Still kicking the tires on org-mode, but I don&rsq...
Sundogs
Got the other trees into the ground yesterday, as ...
Currently reading: I, Rigoberta Menchu by Rigobert...
Quite a weekend so far: grandsons over for most of...
Currently reading: Breakneck by Dan Wang 📚
This is the gist of the reflection-not-a-homily I ...
There and back again without incident. Neither of ...
Next was Nouember, he full grosse and fat,
As fed...
So I’m giving the helix editor a whirl. Usua...
Our formation weekend was cancelled, so the Trinit...
For our next formation weekend (which is actually ...
Lots going on, but not much to write about. Work i...
Saint Bernard Abbey Church, Cullman, Alabama
Next week, I will be taking my canonical retreat b...
Volume 2 of PKD’s short stories is underway....
I put Rayuela down, probably for good. I’m&h...
When life gives you leftovers, turn them into taco...
This one hits hard every year.
With Christians, a poetical view of things is a d...
The August formation weekend is behind us, and for...
There are a couple of things I avoid writing about...
I didn’t get a chance to deliver the reflect...
Stinging rose moth caterpillar
Our pastor is out of town for a while, so one of t...
Currently reading: Rayuela by Julio Cortázar 📚
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Currently reading: Encountering Artificial Intelli...
Yesterday, as part of preparation for ordination, ...
Luna moth
Botanic Garden, Oxford
Currently reading: La invención de Morel / The Inv...
Lavender cuttings. Let’s see how this whole propag...
So I managed to remove most of the hydrangea. It w...
We visited a couple of botanic gardens on our trip...
On one of our walking tours in the UK, we stopped ...
As you probably guessed from all the pictures, we ...
Codex Sinaiticus, British Library
Fairy Pools, Skye
St. Margaret of Scotland. Her book of the gospels ...
European robin
Lake Windermere
Magdelen College, from the Botanic Garden
Possibly the greatest book title ever.
Our Lady of Walsingham, Cathedral of Westminster
Chapel of St. John, Tower of London
A reference to Russell’s teapot came across ...
Currently reading: Complete Short Stories by Graha...
Carolina ruellia
Farm and forage report
Eastern whitelip snail
Tal vez sea el evitar la tentación de juntar pala...
Currently reading: El Escritor Y Sus Fantasmas by ...
Summer mode ☑️
More LatAm lit on the way: Ernesto Sabato, Adolfo ...
Finished 2666, which I liked a lot. Started Como a...
Climbing prairie rose, one of several wild ramblin...
Yep, it’s official!
Pawpaws. Here’s hoping they make it to maturity!
...
The next few days are going to be crazy: travel fo...
Assisting during the Easter Vigil (photo credit: D...
Blue-eyed grass
Currently reading: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 📚
Currently reading: Treatise on the Love of God by ...
I just took the last exam of the last class of the...
Coming up for a bit of air after some business tra...
Common Star-of-Bethlehem
Field madder
First peony bloom!
Stemless Evening Primrose, Stones River Greenway
Eight-spotted forester moth
Baby kieffer pears (the correct version)
One of our catechumens comes to me before class la...
Apple blossom. Now that the pears are done, the ap...
Currently reading: Los de abajo by Mariano Azuela ...
Butterweed
Fleabane
Stitchwort, pawpaw blossoms, and a yard shot.
This past weekend was our penultimate class. I&rsq...
Springbeauty grows in large areas which are beauti...
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the ben...
Common blue violets. These grow in the yard but on...
Met with my deacon mentor today, probably for the ...
Bluets, another backyard native. These are tiny an...
Thai Cashew Chicken from 177milkstreet. Consistent...
American field pansy
I started re-assembling my radio stack this past w...
Virginia springbeauty
Statement of the Bishops of the Province of Louisv...
Mariam Mahmoud calls for a return to The Lost Art ...
The corned beef and cabbage became Reuben sandwich...
Keiffer pear blossoms. Last year, a late frost clo...
Things I have used Claude for:
Write a plugin for...
Paz on pause for a bit and having another go at Do...
Back home again after another formation weekend. W...
Back from a bit of business travel to Las Vegas. T...
Tracey Rowland exhorts us to recover the weirdness...
Whoever attacks a brother in need, or plots again...
Thoughts on Pedro Páramo:
I liked it a lot. The na...
Currently reading: El llano en llamas by Juan Rulf...
For anyone in TN genuinely curious about the fundi...
From @emilyscartoons
I’m about halfway through Pedro Páramo. It&r...
Katherine Rundell answers the question, Why childr...
Will definitely look into this at some point.
St. Frances de Sales on the sin of detraction:
Th...
Currently reading: Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo 📚
...
Moss
Into the desert
I can’t seem to stick with Marquez, so it&rs...
The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way...
Excellent article by Luke Plant summarizing his re...
Relic of St. John Paul II I held several years ago...
Currently reading: The Street of Crocodiles by Bru...
Thomas Zak explores the paschal mystery by way of ...
Let’s make 2025 the year of the cozy Interne...
With Christians, a poetical view of things is a d...
More adventures with Claude: I set it to work on s...
They closed schools tomorrow so…
Currently reading: Little, Big by John Crowley 📚
...
So I just had Claude.ai iterate a few times over a...
On games
For the last few years, my go-to game for...
Currently reading: The Religion of the Day by Univ...
Currently reading: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa...
Last day of PTO, and I spent it doing all of those...
A low-key NYE for us: served at the vigil mass, lo...
We pledge that the Catholic Church in Kentucky an...
Santa keeping things full throttle for me this yea...
Currently reading: Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer 📚...
Currently reading: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 📚
...
Essays on eschatology and salvation turned in. Nee...
Somebody figured out the connections in the Beatri...
This post is a round-up of tools and tidbits that ...
Happy Memorial of St. Nicholas, who allegedly deck...
Just asked Claude for book recommendations based o...
We got our grades back for the last exam, and I&rs...
Currently reading: The Once and Future King by T. ...
Turkey: seasoned. Grill: cleaned out. Served at ma...
Another formation weekend is behind us, and all th...
So this morning, for the first time, I preached (o...
I spent last week in Las Vegas for work. The event...
The forgiveness of particular venial sins comes a...
Christian life on earth is eternal life already b...
Tiny nest. Hummingbird, maybe? I found it in the g...
Estoy empezando a soña en español como era joven y...
I subscribed to the paid version of Claude and wan...
In this age of artificial intelligence, we cannot...
Class this weekend was good; I’ve summarized...
I was not expecting a Herman Hesse reference in to...
Then came October full of merry glee:
For, yet hi...
Papers submitted. They’re out of my hands an...
Currently reading: Collected Fictions by Jorge Lui...
All three papers for my concluding exercise are do...
Katydid
The first paper is in the ‘revise and editin...
I took this in Costa Rica years ago but didn&rsquo...
Currently reading: The Soul of the Apostolate by J...
I gave this talk the other night to a high school ...
Was asked to speak to our high school youth group ...
Green frog
Alan Jacobs writes about the diaconal charism root...
OCIA team meeting tonight. It was good to get the ...
You dolphins and all water creatures, bless the Lo...
The weather is not looking great for the upcoming ...
Church of Our Lady of Einsiedeln, Saint Meinrad Ar...
For those about to smoke…
Enjoying a bit of liminal time between classes and...
Currently reading: Collected Stories of Carson McC...
Same energy
Currently reading: Oedipus the King ; Oedipus at C...
“Everywhere and always, when human beings either c...
Deep in Girard again, and I’ve been thinking...
It’s the season for weird clouds, tall weeds, and ...
Currently reading: All Desire Is a Desire for Bein...
Giant Leopard Moth
Was on a vocations panel for high-schoolers last n...
Currently reading: An Introduction to Philosophy b...
Currently reading: Time for God by Jacques Philipp...
The rooster is the last survivor of our chicken-ke...
Today I repaired an appliance, got a haircut, and ...
Pear, elderflower, and pawpaw
Today we were instituted as acolytes! Preparation ...
I was visiting my 96-year-old grandmother in the h...
Served Mass this morning with our pastor. There ha...
Aurora borealis in TN!
Hello cicada!
Dcn. Bill Ditewig writes about re-thinking the ide...
Feeling a little fried. Just wrapped our class on ...
Some stuff is still amazing
Peony bloom
Pawpaw covered in blossoms. Here’s hoping they set...
On Free Choice of the Will…
This image may be a bit too large; here’s a ...
Currently reading: Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky 📚
...
Let’s get things started.
I wonder what it would take for the Holy See to st...
Bishop Erik Varden of Norway delivered the Navarra...
Backlit stained glass in the chapel
After ditching FreshRSS and riding with just plain...
I’m in San Jose for work at the moment and remembe...
I took a closer look at Pi-hole’s administra...
This past formation weekend was very fruitful. God...
Pondering Taylor’s formulation of porous vs....
Currently reading: A Secular Age by Charles Taylor...
Everybody say cheese!
And here it is, in situ. Initial tests show a beau...
Antenna for GOES imagery. Got the whole kit (inclu...
This years book haul. Another Girard book is on pr...
Burning down the year’s accumulation of brush on N...
I’m now midway through the third year of for...
Currently reading: Wanting by Luke Burgis 📚
The Council of Ephesus, 431
Seasonal Auden
When the final dish matches the picture…
Currently reading: Dominican Life by Walter Wagner...
Advent is here, which means that it is about time ...
Little sundog
Almost time to drop the bird…
Can’t resist one more.
Having some fun with Bing and Dall-E. It doesn’t d...
Big pot of feijoada to feed a crowd tonight. Been ...
The pears out front are putting on a real show thi...
It’s been a hot minute or two since the last...
Bill-a-palooza continues….currently reading...
Finished reading: Snopes by William Faulkner 📚
Annular eclipse beginning here…
Sunday studies…
Smoking some briskets, drinking beer, and sitting ...
Guilty, defiant, and ejected from the pool…for the...
August, being rich arrayd
Must be time for another permanent #deacon formati...
Annual Cicada, rescued from the web of a bored spi...
Enjoying the last bit of relative calm before clas...
Eastern Fence Lizard
Our parish celebrated our patroness today with a p...
Big shelf cloud action heading our way.
Currently reading: Snopes by William Faulkner 📚
...
Rickhouse, Nearest Green Distillery
#catholic #iykyk
Warm sidewalk lazy dog cross post test
Reading Girard and then hitting the whole plankton...
Finished Selected Short Stories last night. On dec...
I've been thinking a lot about fictional geographi...
A wee Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad, which is actual...
Rainy day rabbit vibe
Science we can all get behind.
One of his studies...
For 20 years now, I have been heading from my nat...
Overheard in the frozen food section of the superm...
Grand Isle, LA
Currently reading: Selected Short Stories by Willi...
I finished The Gulf last night, and it was great....
Hesiod's late summer vibe
The apples are coming along nicely. These are eith...
St. Charles St
Two from Evagrius
The mystery of patience
The Three Angers
Killing time poolside while the smoker smokes…
St Peter & Royal
The road trip was lovely. We set the GPS to 'avoid...
Currently reading: The Gulf: The Making of an Amer...
Currently reading: New Orleans Sketches by William...
Rowan Oak, Faulkner’s home
Faulkner’s grave
Roadside lunch from Harry’s Po-boys, Larose, LA
Summer reading: A Canticle for Leibowitz and The N...
Currently reading: St. Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns On...
Currently reading: El Aleph / The Aleph by Jorge L...
Still the Sears Tower, no matter what.
I think these are fruit sets on the pawpaw tree. I...
Charlotte
Anole
Currently reading: Cien años de soledad / One Hund...
Currently reading: Introducción al cristianismo: L...
Ad cenam agni providi
οὐκ οἶδα
My Carmelite deep-dive continues with The Collecte...
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more my...
Currently reading: The Carmelite Way: An Ancient P...
Here’s a nifty fact for you: the Catholic di...
Currently reading: Carmelite Spirituality in the T...
Pollo borracho, or “drunken chicken.” I think ever...
Would you like to hear what happens when AI versio...
Today I learned how to have 2 apps open at once on...
First week in my attempt to go paperless for class...
Currently reading: Carmelite Spirituality by Cardi...
Pawpaw
Cambridge MA
Trying something new: feijoada, a black bean stew ...
To the Trinity and beyond!
Is your library fully equipped?
Currently reading: The Trinity (Works of Saint Aug...
Boreal chorus frog, according to Seek. Also showin...
Pivoting between two piles of reading this evening...
Today was a strong-cocktail-before-dinner sort of ...
Tonight’s food pic is an Asian-style mushroom omel...
I should probably credit the website - both of the...
One more bit of AI-artwork in honor of St. Meinrad...
AI-generated artwork is occasionally amazing stuff...
How much fun is a mobile in a math classroom? Too ...
Having some fun in the kitchen as I’ve recently ta...
What a bunch we are! Beautiful Mass and an importa...
Breaking retreat silence to ask for your prayers -...
Currently reading: Citizenship Papers by Wendell B...
Hackberry Emperor
Currently reading: Understanding the Diaconate: Hi...
It’s been awhile but we’re getting back in the sad...
These pork shoulders about 5 hours in; probably ab...
Enjoying a short summer break in classes before t...
Red Spotted Admiral
Currently reading: Ven Espíritu Creador: Meditacio...
Currently reading: The History of Black Catholics ...
Currently reading: On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Re...
Currently reading: From Christendom to Apostolic M...
Class is going well; we're covering a lot of grou...
St. Meinrad Archabbey Church. Here for the week.
Currently reading: Tu palabra me da vida by Ranier...
Ahora, una cosa diferente
Just finished the last class of the year - a two-m...
Grilled paella - one of our go-tos when we’re feed...
Reflecting on Girard
Currently reading: The Lonely Man of Faith by Jose...
Gray ratsnake. One of the kids spotted it the othe...
Muscadines are really taking off this year. This i...
Pitcher’s Stitchwort
Just got the email that Emergence Vol. 3 is availa...
Currently reading: The Institutes, translated and ...
So I’ve ventured back into the Fediverse aft...
Kitchen is out of commission while some work is b...
When you cannot see clearly and openly whether th...
Common Star-Of-Bethlehem
Welcome back, peonies
New strawberry patch!
Two pollinators at once
Currently reading: The Book of Forgiving: The Four...
Just finished another paper that will close out m...
Currently reading: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning...
Currently reading: Work by Louisa May Alcott 📚
7-year-old: I have a lot of reading to do.
Me: Sam...
“Where there is no love, put love, and you will d...
Currently reading: Jane Eyre (Enriched Classics) b...
When you fast, see the fasting of others. If you w...
Christopher Alexander, a towering figure in archi...
In him the Old Testament finds its fitting close....
Currently reading: St. Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns On...
Latest paper for Foundations is nearly in the can:...
Currently reading: In the First Circle by Aleksand...
Radio nerd aside: this Twitter thread is bananas. ...
“Teach us to be loving not only in great and excep...
Currently reading: Fundamental Theology (Sacra Doc...
RSS, classes, Synodality, and Spenser
Currently reading: Idylls of the King (Penguin Cla...
Not sure what I was expecting out of Kafka's The M...
“Be glad then that you are overwhelmed, and ...
“When I notice something wrong in my brother that ...
Still working through the Tolstoy collection. So f...
Draft of one paper (Liturgy!) is done. Will sleep ...
Current state: I have to write a paper for a class...
“And suddenly he was overcome by such a strange fe...
Facebook, said the director of diocesan media, is ...
A little more nerd stuff - I've fallen down the H...
Currently reading: Great Short Works of Leo Tolsto...
Spent most of Sunday and Monday installing a new c...
We finished up season 4 of Fargo and season 6 of T...
And now for something completely different.
Someone on Metafilter just referred to NFTs as &ld...
Today’s Wordle needs to be kicked to the curb. The...
The retreat for this weekend was canceled. The pri...
A sunny 40 degrees today and I took a few minutes ...
Ordinary Time
Currently reading: The Spirit of the Liturgy by Jo...
A heavy snowfall was nice, but nicer still is list...
Just a quick little board game that the kids have ...
Reflections on St. Gregory the Great
“A certain philosopher asked St. Anthony: Fa...
Into the Silent Land
We are perhaps too talkative, too activistic, in ...
This sense of separation from God and from one an...
I decided to splurge on a new keyboard for the off...
Very busy around here lately. Among other things, ...
So that's one more essay test and a final draft o...
Visiting our niece, who is studying engineering, a...
Traveling for work for the first time in nearly tw...
Day 3 of a formation weekend which has focused on ...
Mushrooms, Montgomery Bell State Park
Moths taking off at 6000fps, (h/t metafilter). Did...
Habanero jelly!
All of my radios are croaking! Recently the scanne...
This is another formation weekend - the second pa...
Tickseed Beggar-ticks
White-marked Tussock Moth caterpillar
Last step in the formal graduate admissions proces...
Passionflower, one of our state symbols
First formation weekend complete. A thousand years...
Fig tree is showing some fruit! It’s grown like cr...
Took a small break from studying to dip into Emerg...
Beautiful mild afternoon with low humidity here. C...
I am flexing some essay-writing muscles I haven’t ...
We attended the first formal meeting last night in...
Jumping spiders - new phone does pretty well with ...
Amazing bit of music here: Voodoo Child on a clav...
We’ve welded together Loki and Lovecraft Cou...
Sunset cumulus, adjusted slightly
📷
Poolside reading
As usual, I overthought this completely.
curl http...
For clarity - I’ve been happy with the iOS a...
Is anyone posting to micro.blog with a text editor...
Re-reading: The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Con...
John of the Cross and detachment
It’s Sunday, which means something is going on the...
Fox kits
Fox kits
Fox kits
I have a .edu e-mail address again after 30 years...
Currently reading: Agency by William Gibson 📚
Wild blackberries are coming in strong. We picked ...
What fun! Thanks, @jean!!
Necessity being the mother of invention and all th...
Currently reading: The Collected Works of St. John...
Someone posted a Spotify playlist that neatly appr...
These just went on the grill - dry brined overnigh...
Late June
And we're (nearly) off!
This, that, and the other.
Three sisters
Currently reading: The Other Wes Moore: One Name, ...
Currently reading: A People’s History of the Unite...
Beautiful summer cumulus
The Church Forests of Ethiopia
Nice! Emergence Magazine vol 1 is back in stock!
✅...
My seeds came early so I was able to get started o...
Foxes and suchlike
Oxeye Daisies
Stonecrop
Corn, Bean, and Squash
Mulberries and whatnot
Charisms
Currently reading: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wa...
Long Hunter State Park hike
Grand news!
It’s raining today so I’m building the raised beds...
Currently reading: How to Read Water: Clues and Pa...
…and the vineyard (lol) is also done for no...
First peony has opened!
Got the grape trellises in. I’ll do the wire tomor...
Beautiful morning for a 5K. Negative splits, too! ...
Expanding our orchard! Today we picked up a pair o...
Currently reading: Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri 📚...
First pawpaw blooms!
Swarm trap
Top-bar hive
For the perpetual excuse
of Adam for his fall — &...
Dick Hoyt, RIP
Currently reading: Stories of the Old South by Ben...
…which means ‘Sent’
Liliana Porter
Keeping the World in Being
Come, let us reason together.
Tonight I teach the contraception and IVF session...
In this big family, Daft Punk’s music was so...
Currently reading: Photographically Speaking by Da...
I don’t think I’ve heard anything as lovely as the...
Beware the pogonip!
Today's birds
The bicolored redwings I saw yesterday are much m...
Been eyeballing the bird feeder and have spotted s...
No barbecuing today I guess.
View from inside…this is my amateur radio a...
Thwack
“The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him...
Elderberry cuttings are coming along nicely
Currently reading: John Cassian, The institutes by...
Tonight’s tasting selections…
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is...
I've been thinking a bit about the HBO series The...
I never understood the QAnon stuff. For me, big c...
Currently reading: Contemplative Prayer by Thomas ...
A list of text-heavy sites I visit regularly:
Tex...
A reminder: social media is not the Internet, and...
The Christmas Feast is already a fading memory, ...
The Real Deep State
Is it just me, or is half the fun of a new book fi...
A Little Office for Evening Prayer
Guardini on virtue
Happy New Year, everyone!
Last few books of 2020 are arriving today: Walker ...
Rachel
Monday thoughts
Quite a temperature drop over 24 hours…
Currently reading: Learning the Virtues: That Lead...
Merton
Calculating Christmas
A politics of conversion
Currently reading: Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Bened...
Books and thoughts on Lectio
Race day!
This is powerful, powerful stuff.
Building Bridges, Made for Love
The mint has grown back so I guess it’s mojitos in...
RIP Rabbi Sacks
It’s 75 here today so we’re barbecuing and hanging...
Sunny window nap
Merton prays
Currently reading: Compensating the Sales Force, T...
Ongoing gratitude
Books...
Political homelessness
Low blow, Amazon. Low blow. Holiday wishbook? Choc...
Pickling and fermenting
Working my way through Fratelli Tutti
Running haunt
What sort of thing?
TU 599 TN 04
Deus in adiutorium meum intende
Oh happy day!
Waxing gibbous cat
Two briskets rubbed down and ready for the smoker ...
We just found a baby snapping turtle on our back p...
More on discernment
Maxfield Parrish evening
Early into Cassian's Conferences
St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church, Eureka S...
Approaching wall cloud, NW Arkansas
What is gained by fasting is less than what is spent on anger
Have you ever seen a pawpaw tree? Now you have. Pa...
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Walker Percy
Migrating from jekyll
Cicada