Raced the sunset home and it won. Darn! It was a beauty … no, strike that. It was Beauty, and I was hoping to fly in, throw the groceries in appropriate places, grab the camera and capture it. No such luck. Gone, gone, and no one would believe me if I tried to describe it.
It’s […]

This is worth going over, just because the Legacy Media and John McCain seem confused on the matter: Why did Dick Durbin apologize? Because he’s a great guy? Because he had a change of heart? Because he is always looking to promote harmony and bi-partisanship?
Nnnnno. Because it was good politics to apologize.

Wall St. Journal’s OpinionJournal […]

It occurred to me since I mentioned the Ortho-convert list again recently that I should give info and a plug for anyone who doesn’t know about it.

It’s an e-mail list-serv — an e-mail forum discussion group for the technologically challenged (like me) — on Yahoo groups. You can register and join up if you want […]

Well, are we going to make nice with the Vatican or not? Moscow says “nyet”; Kiev says “da”. The Greek patriarch says “we can”; one Greek theologian says “we can’t”. I seem to recall that opinions on the Ortho-blogosphere have tended toward the negative.
I sure wish that we could, but it goes without saying […]

There has been some discussion — as you well might expect — on the Orthodox convert list, about this terrible story of a Romanian priest-monk killing a nun in an attempt to exorcise demons from her. It’s horrible to know that the Orthodox Church may make the papers for such a horrific case of one […]

(This little story was just an extra in our choir director’s e-mail, but I thought it was so pithy, it was worth repeating. I don’t know where she heard it?)
One evening, an elderly Native American told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, there is a battle between […]

Odds and ends from here and there:

Can you believe that Michael Schiavo can still find ways to use Terry to say “I won and you lost”? That’s apparently an important enough message that he thinks it needs to be chiseled in stone. If sheer spite has life-giving qualities, Michael ought to live a very long […]

I’ve been mulling over a quote I read by Fr. Alexander Yelchaninov:
The effort expended in securing control over ourselves and our anarchic, autonomous nervous systems, is greatly facilitated, made quite easy, by the correct poise of attention and imagination. We shall inevitably stumble over every trifling obstacle until that which is not a trifle becomes […]

The weather right now is wonderful. Moderate, breezy, sunny — June at its best. And since we just came out of unusually stormy, humid weather, the growing season is off and running like the favorite at the greyhound track. My backyard looks like a complete jungle and — of more regional interest — the corn […]

Just some last thoughts on some of the high profile cases that seemed to be about more than just a legal decision:

Terry Schiavo
I think I’m surprised that there wasn’t more ringing of all the bells in the Mainstream Media about the results of Terry Schiavo’s autopsy, since the news is all good from their point […]