I didn’t know that surfing was an Olympic sport until I saw a story with a fantastic picture. Surfing was included in the Olympics for the first time in Japan in 2020, and the competition this year is taking place in French Polynesia. It is a judged sport, as opposed to racing or throwing things [...]
Not quite politics…
These days anyone who volunteers at a Catholic Church has to go through a vetting process and be finger-printed. Then there are a lot of rules about never being alone with children, or driving them anywhere alone, and keeping classroom doors open. The priest who ran one of the sessions I attended said, that we [...]
thinking about the church
... so you get eye candy ... Top row, left and right, pulpit in a church in New Trier, Minnesota. Middle picture, possibly from the chapel at the Dominicans of Mary Mother of the Eucharist, mother house in Ann Arbor Middle row. Our Lady of Hope, statue of Saint Joseph, a church I cannot recall [...]
Vacation book reviews, continued…
I read three books by Elizabeth Daly, a murder mystery writer from the 1940’s. Her setting is New York City around World War II. She is not writing about bustling immigrants but about gentry, decaying or otherwise, and a bit of society life. The books are described as English country house, only set in New [...]
… call me and bid me come to you …
‘In hora mortis meae voca me, et iube me venire ad te’ (at the hour of my death, call me and bid me come to you). This is the prayer of Christian hope.” Pope Saint John Paul II, Letter to the Elderly, 1999 I read a book weeks ago, that starts with a death bed. [...]
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