As you can see below, I just caught up on posting a lot of short quotes so that they can show up in the “A Word” column at right. (And by the way, I’ll insert my usual plug that these quotes almost always come from “Daily Lives” — my one-a-day Orthodox vitamin pill). But there’s […]

You have nothing better than this soul; you have nothing of greater worth than this immortal soul.
– Nectarios of Aegina

The kingdom of heaven, dearly beloved, is compared to earthly things, so that our soul may rise to the unknown from that with which it is familiar.
– Gregory the Great

Value the time, it is irretrievable; take more heed to yourself, for your struggle consists of this.
– Leo of Optina

The beginning of salvation and of the heavenly kingdom for the soul is love.
– Antony the Great

Let us think about our soul, which is greater in honor than all the world.
– Athanasios of Paros

Boy, I’ve been a lazy blogger lately. I kind of get the feeling that a lot of us out in the Ortho-blogosphere have been taking it easy this summer. No doubt we’re all preserving the excess calories we would burn up slaving away over a hot keyboard.
In my case, I can’t hide behind that […]

Orthodox bloggers on the crisis between Israel and Lebanon:

Glad Huw pointed us to the Antiochian resolution:
… we appeal to the President of the United States of America, Mr. George W. Bush, to use his good office
1. To bring immediate cessation of hostilities on both sides.
2. To help in the […]

It’s late and I should go to bed. Buuut, apparently in spite of my griping about the West Coast stay — that’s it, girl; make a big stink out of being in paradise for a week — there was one thing I really liked about it and that was the time zone, because there’s no […]

Back in Southern California briefly and it can’t even be bothered to dress up for the occasion. When we lived here, I remember a reporter once remarking before some big event of national interest that no one needed to worry that the weather wouldn’t cooperate, because the region could be compared to an old Nora […]