It’s hard to know what to say now that President Bush has vetoed the Iraq spending bill.
Philosophy
True Happiness
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller
What do we believe in?
I watched a brief excerpt of George Tenet grandstanding about how we knew about Osama bin Laden before 9/11 blah, blah, blah.
Mindfulness
This came to me in an email from a Buddhist friend. Beyond the ubiquity of stress and pain operating in my own life, my motivation to practice mindfulness is fairly simple: Each moment missed is a moment unlived. Each moment missed makes it more likely I will miss the next moment, and live through it … Read more
St. Francis and the Sultan
Colonel Dan Smith who authors one blogs on my blogroll has a familiar story in his post today. That is the story of St. Francis and the Sultan Malik al Kamil.
Romans 12 and other thoughts
Today Fr. Lou McCormick’s homily at Mt. Irenaeus was about the hope offered by the resurrection. He knew well that we had all been through a week marred by the massacre at Virginia Tech and the endless cycle of violence in Iraq and elsewhere in the world.
No longer in limbo
Thanks to Pope Benedict XVI unbaptized children are saved.
First walk
Tonight after dinner my wife and I decided to take a walk. It’s the first walk of this year.