All are welcome
Today as I made my way to Mt. Irenaeus for Mass I could not shut out the specter of war and an overall feeling of helplessness from my mind. Saber rattling by the Bush Administration both in Iraq and lately…
Competition is good
I read a great deal each week. Thanks to bloggers and the internet in general I have a diverse assortment of new sources. As an open source user and advocate I read with particular interest those items dealing with Linux…
Scare tactics
It’s been nearly six years since the Bush Administration initiated their politics of fear and you aren’t really any safer than you were in 2001. They’ve used this fear tactic to persuade us that we ought to surrender basic freedoms…
Probable defeat
A young friend of mine and a reader of this blog sent me an email today about some comments made by Senator Joe Biden about occupying Iraq and continuing the fight there. I’m indebted to Andrew Sullivan’s blog for the…
Conscientious objector
Thirty-five years ago I volunteered for the United States Navy. I volunteered for the Hospital Corps because like this man I didn’t think I could kill people. It ain’t in me. No amount of training can overcome my most basic…
Benevolent blends
I got an advertisement from the Monks of Our Lady of Spring Bank in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
Franklinville from overhead
This is a picture of Franklinville, New York looking west taken this afternoon as I cruised overhead in a Cessna Skyhawk. It was a great day to fly. I hadn’t been up in nearly three weeks. I got in a…
Bell of mindfulness
One of my goals this summer has been to live mindfully. To enjoy each day and each moment as it comes. Life is really in the present moment. It is not in what we project nor in the past we…
Interesting interview
Contrast this interview with Dick Cheney in 1994 with what we’ve witnessed in the last three years before and after invading Iraq. I wonder what changed his mind. Was it all September 11th or was there some other scenario? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I]
Happy Birthday
Today was my Uncle Wendell’s 90th birthday. Wendell was born into a world rocked by the First World War. My grandfather avoided military service for the United States involvement in the war because of Wendell’s birth. Wendell on the other…