In my past life as a teacher I used to hear graduating 8th graders talk about how they wanted to change the world. The terms they used were very general, and I wasn’t in the business of saying, “Don’t be ridiculous,” to earnest students who were leaving for high school. But these were teenagers who [...]
I ended up with a lot of arthritis pain, visited the doctor, and got distracted. So a few random comments today. First -- a lovely quote “Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who know other beings as true, who loves them as good, and who enjoys them as beautiful.” from Etienne [...]
My sister Mary’s birthday was June 10, 1947. She has another birthday now on November 21, 2020, the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lady. I was thinking of her, yesterday, and wondering idly which saints had a feast day on June 10. I knew that June has some amazing saints. A simple saint calendar [...]
In his Divine Comedy, Dante describes an awesome procession that occurs after he and Virgil reach the earthly paradise at the top of the mountain of Purgatory. Here are some excerpts from Canto 28 ** When round toward me the Lady wholly turned, And said: “My brother, look and listen now!” And lo, so [...]
Several years ago I went to a “pinning” ceremony for a nurse. The pinning ceremony is specifically NOT a graduation ceremony, if you go read about it. It is a special celebration of becoming a nurse and remembering nurses before you. Some websites claim that the pin tradition goes back to the Middle Ages. The [...]
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