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I’m learning how to write an RSS feed for the school district I work at. Naturally, I had to check out my work to make sure that it looked okay. In doing so I needed to install a feed reader. I discovered one that’s easy to use and install. It’s called Sage Feed Reader and … Read more

I came across this hopeful video on Youtube tonight. I hope it gives you a reason to hope for peace. Pray for peace, live peace, be peace. Live as though you really knew the Prince of Peace. Images are powerful and this video says a lot more than I could write if I wrote pages. … Read more

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.–St. Isaac of Ninevah Technorati Tags:wisdom, divine

This came from a young man spending the summer in service to others at Mt. Irenaeus. He was kind enough to forward it to me on email tonight. Nothing is more practical than finding God,That is, falling in love in a quiteabsolute way What you are in love with, What seizes your imaginationWill affect everything. … Read more

Today, I bought one of those $5 albums at the checkout counter. It’s entitled, “Ladies Got Soul”, and it has some all time soul favorites like Aretha Franklin, Evelyn Champagne King, Gloria Gaynor and Diana Ross. Listening to the album brought back a flood of memories from 20 and 30 years ago. I grew up … Read more

I’ve gone back to using Centos Enterprise Linux on my notebook. I enjoyed a nearly two month experience with Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake. I’m impressed by the Ubuntu community and how well they support their users. However, I’ve been attempting to do some development work with MySQL and PHP and I just couldn’t get Apache, … Read more

Paula’s latest post got me to thinking of one of my favorite poems. It was written by a narcotics addict, Francis Thompson. I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;I fled Him, down the arches of the years;I fled Him, down the labyrinthine waysOf my own mind; and in the mist of tearsI … Read more

“At the root of all war is fear: not so much the fear men have of one another as the fear they have of everything. It is not merely that they do not trust one another; they do not trust even themselves. If they are not sure when someone else may turn around and kill … Read more

“There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within. And yet the same instinct tells us that this change is a recovery of that which is deepest, most original, most personal in ourselves. … Read more

I read this story a number of years ago and just thought of it again tonight after getting an email from a regular reader of this blog. ShipWreckedInSC thought I was taking life too seriously and he is right. I forgot who’s in charge. I do that at least twice a week and sometimes more … Read more