Atlanta, GA April 17, 2022 Last week was Masters’ week, which in north Georgia is usually delightful. Until yesterday, when rain rolled in, this year was no exception: clear, sunny afternoons book-ended by chilly mornings and cool nights. The birds are chirping, the azaleas flower, and Atlanta’s arboreal canopy is in seasonal blossom. Bees are […]
Atlanta, GA March 4, 2022 “The Ukraine is a very fertile country, but by no means agreeable.” – Madame de Staël Americans who two months ago didn’t know Ukraine from a ukulele have been manipulated into posting blue and gold profile pictures, insisting upon “no-fly zones”, and unequivocally condemning anyone who questions what might be happening […]
Atlanta, GA January 23, 2022 I think I understand how Christians felt when in 1303 the French king imprisoned a beleaguered pope, hand-picked an obsequious successor, and precipitated a seven-decade papal encampment in Avignon on the Rhône. A subsequent schism created rival “popes” based in Rome and Avignon, with a third claimant coming from Pisa […]
Atlanta, GA January 14, 2022 Yesterday we received a decision from nine people as to whether another person can tell hundreds of millions of different individuals what drugs they must take. While many of us had reasons to cheer or jeer the results, not enough found the scenario disturbing. How did Americans come to blithely […]
Tampa, FL December 25, 2021 The search for universal essence began…as so many things did…in ancient Greece, on the shores of Ionia. The first philosophers sought the primary substance that sustains the world…what St. John later called The Word, which was “in the beginning with God”, without which “nothing was made that was made.” Thales thought […]
Atlanta, GA December 13, 2021 Much as there’s a nonsensical perception that “unvaccinated” equals “infected” (and vice versa)…as if one can spread Covid even if he doesn’t have it…many people seem to think that if someone opposes vaccine mandates, that person must be unvaccinated – or is, at the very least, “anti-vaxx”. People have been […]
Atlanta, GA December 8, 2021 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of His ways, before He made anything, from the beginning. I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made. The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived….He that shall find me shall find life, and […]
Atlanta, GA December 3, 2021 The most improper job of any man, even saints, who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on, is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. – JRR Tolkien Despite all we should’ve […]
Re-posting from the centenary three years ago. Atlanta, GANovember 11, 2018 In the small villages of France hardly a family was spared. Monuments in the centers of most every town record the names of “Nos Heros…Mort Pour La France”… During repeated visits to Paris, Provence, and the valleys of the Rhône and the Loire during […]
November 5, 2021 Atlanta, GA Remember, remember the Fifth of November The Gunpowder Treason and Plot I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot – John Milton When King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England, the petitions rolled in. Catholics and Puritans sought royal protection for […]