Eating at Eva’s.
Salmon River Falls
But in my opinion, Polus, the unjust or doer of unjust actions is miserable in any case, – more miserable, however, if he be not punished and does not meet with retribution, and less miserable if he be punished and meets with retribution at the hands of gods and men. —Socrates, The Gorgias
In Manlius, NY, to see the cygnets.
Elisabeth hears Mary’s voice – her unborn child jumps in her womb.
ᴇʟɪᴢᴀʙᴇᴛʜ. My baby in me jumped for joy.
Google “baby in the womb”.
(Wanted to see if Micro.blog accepted small caps.)
Father Philip Silhouan Thompson, “Two Blind Men Teach Us to Pray”
Every monk whose spiritual practice has borne fruit, whatever his age, is called “a beautiful elder.” —Olivier Clément, quoted
HT @JohnBrady
I recommend highly that one reads Johnny Vedmore’s “Schwab Family Values”—Vera Sharav
One day he walks to Bethany, where the sisters Martha and Mary welcome him to their home. Sc. 57, Luke 10:38
There seems to be no particular reason for Jesus to visit Martha and Mary, besides his liking them.
France had no desire to be a republic, but it had a fixed and resolute aversion to the Old Regime. —Hazen, Modern Europe, p. 157
Thomas Dunn, (1947–2023) RIP.
For years we tried to go to his bakery in Canastota on our way to Syracuse. They were always closed, having sold all their baked goods in the morning before we got there.
It is worth a very careful search into the Old Testament, as men call it, to see if it is possible anywhere to find therein a prayer of anybody who addresses God as Father. For up to the present, although I have searched according to my ability, I have not found one. —Origen, “On Prayer”
One might wonder if Adam & Eve had “full knowledge” & “full consent of the will”. One might even wonder if they committed a Mortal Sin. Considering the aftermath, how important is our judgment of their culpability?
Ordering a BLT at McCarroll’s in Latham, NY.
Feeling is the appropriate arbiter. —Jacques Barzun
Feeling is the appropriate arbiter. All reasoning about what is right, civilized and moral rests upon sentiment. Only, in trying to persuade others, it is important to single out the fundamental feeling, the prime intuition, and from it to reason justly. —Barzun, “In Favor of Capital Punishment”
Nick Hudson, The Truth about the COVID-19 Lockdowns
