Muscadines are really taking off this year. This is ‘Triumph;’ we also have a ‘Tara Gold’ that’s doing well.
Pitcher’s Stitchwort
Just got the email that Emergence Vol. 3 is available for pre-order! Pre-ordered! Such great work and beautifully produced too.
Currently reading: The Institutes, translated and annotated by Boniface Ramsey by St. John Cassian 📚
So I’ve ventured back into the Fediverse after some time away. Pros/cons about enabling the ActivityPub stuff for Micro.blog? I like the idea of integration/crossposting but want to know if I’m unleashing a hamster avalanche first.
Kitchen is out of commission while some work is being done so I'm using the green egg as an oven tonight. Trying to embrace a paleolithic outlook with respect to dinner time, which is to say that it'll be done when it's done. Hungry now? Go forage for grubs.
When you cannot see clearly and openly whether the sin is— St. Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue
deadly, you must not pass judgment in your mind, but be concerned
only about my will for that person. And if you do see it, you
must respond not with judgment, but with holy compassion,
for if you act this way your spirit will not be scandalized either
in me or in your neighbors. For you cast contempt on your neighbors
when you pay attention to their ill will toward you rather than
my will for them.
Common Star-Of-Bethlehem
Welcome back, peonies
New strawberry patch!
Two pollinators at once
Currently reading: The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World by Desmond Tutu 📚
Just finished another paper that will close out my online class, clearing the decks to start the preparatory reading for this month's OT course.
It was a good one, too. Our assigned readings generally followed the pattern of the Apostle's Creed and ranged all over the place, including a fair amount of modern stuff: Bernard Lonergan, Frederick Crowe, Desmond and Mpho Tutu, René Girard, and more. Our instructor (John Dadosky) included his own work as well. I'll be chewing on a lot of these for years to come, I think.
Currently reading: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Rene Girard 📚
Currently reading: Work by Louisa May Alcott 📚
7-year-old: I have a lot of reading to do.
Me: Same, brother. Same. The reading doesn’t stop until we die.
7-year-old: (pause) There aren’t that many Magic Treehouse Books.
“Where there is no love, put love, and you will draw out love.”
— St. John of the Cross
Currently reading: Jane Eyre (Enriched Classics) by Charlotte Bronte 📚 This one’s long overdue for me and has been sitting on the one-of-the-kids-had-this-for-school shelf. Starting it right before bed was a mistake; I got pulled in immediately.
When you fast, see the fasting of others. If you want God to know that you are hungry, know that another is hungry. If you hope for mercy, show mercy. If you look for kindness, show kindness. If you want to receive, give. If you ask for yourself what you deny to others, your asking is a mockery.— St Peter Chrysologus, Office of Readings, Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent
Christopher Alexander, a towering figure in architecture and urbanism—one of the biggest influences on the New Urbanism movement—died on Thursday, March 17, after a long illness, it was reported by Michael Mehaffy, a long-time collaborator and protege. Alexander was the author or principal author of many books, including A Pattern Language, one of the best-selling architectural books of all time.
Christopher Alexander, 1936 - 2018
(h/t MetaFilter)
In him the Old Testament finds its fitting close. He brought the noble line of patriarchs and prophets to its promised fulfillment. What the divine goodness had offered as a promise to them, he held in his arms...Remember us, Saint Joseph, and plead for us to your foster-child. Ask your most holy bride to look kindly upon us, since she is the mother of him who with the Father and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns eternally. Amen.
— St. Bernadine of Siena, Office of Readings, Solemnity of Joseph, Husband of Mary.
Currently reading: St. Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns On Paradise by St. Ephrem 📚
Latest paper for Foundations is nearly in the can: revisions, a run-through with grammarly, more revisions. I think it’s about done. This three-classes-at-a-time bit is crazy-making.