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Tonight

06/26/2007 by Don

It’s a beautiful moonlit night. A few twinkling stars. Venus has risen in the western sky and its 72F at 10 pm. It doesn’t get much better in Western New York than that. I’m enjoying it.

Not doing

06/25/2007 by Don

My day began with Mass at Mt. Irenaeus. While there I met a young man whom I had previously met via the blogosphere. Another positive impact of blogging and reading bloggers in my life.

My sister sent me this link to this lovely girl singing an old favorite. I hope you like it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njXr1c-12eI] Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, and said, Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no … Read more

Open minds on open source

06/25/2007 by Don

I’ve been engaging in an ongoing and rich conversation with fellow educators who value the contribution of open source. This citation came from a link on Bob Sutor’s Open blog Making “hamburger of Microsoft’s cash cow” by ZDNet‘s Christopher Dawson — Ars technica featured an article last week (Microsoft funds questionable study attacking open source … Read more

Mountain moving faith

06/23/2007 by Don

A couple of weeks ago I asked for prayers for a situation where a young co-worker was facing the loss of health insurance at a critical time in her life. That situation has been remedied and I’m sure that the prayers of the readers of this blog figured into that solution. Pax vobiscum.

When you reap your harvest..

06/22/2007 by Don

Much is made these days of returning to our Judeo-Christian roots by ambitious politicians hoping to cash in on some religious sentiment or trying to drive a wedge between us. Here’s a quote that came in the mail from Sojourners today. How would you like to see public policy that actually represented these kinds of … Read more

Mindfulness in an elementary school

06/19/2007 by Don

Several years ago I attended a Zen meditation session at Alfred University. The teacher, Dr. Benjamin Howard, continues to keep me on his mailing list and I receive Buddhist quotes periodically in my inbox. Today instead of the usual quote I received instead a link to an article that appeared in a recent issue of the New York Times.