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May 2020

May 25, 2020

The Venerable Damiane: the Prayers and Music Endure

Do not despair, lose hope, say a prayer, fight for freedom, write a hymn, save...

May 24, 2020

Poops and Joy in the Morning (Joy in Pandemic Time)

Nessie, the wonder dog, with a nose as keen as Sherlock's Toby, has introduced a new...

May 23, 2020

Take the Beans

Times are tough, but not, Thank God, Depression Era tough. My grandparents lived through those...

May 22, 2020

It is impossible for a man to achieve good through evil means.

XXI. Be attentive to your heart and watch your enemies, for they are cunning in...

May 21, 2020

Confidence in Peace, Help in the Crisis

XVI. He who receives no help when at war should feel no confidence when at...

May 20, 2020

Resist Hatred

II. If you find yourself hating your fellow men and resist this hatred, and you...

May 19, 2020

At the Center of the Labyrinth . . . (On Pandemics, Dying, and Phaedrus)

Socrates waits to die. Athens has decided that he is a trouble maker, asking impertinent...

May 18, 2020

The Necessity of Poetry to the Analytic Mind

Once I knew a scholar who thought fiction was useless, poetry merely sentimental, and wished...

May 15, 2020

The Puppy Nessie Found Home

Nessie came home. In the midst of the pandemic, we realized we were ready to...

May 14, 2020

Heard Over and Over Again: Variety is Good

Small ones delight in repetition. Children want to hear the same stories over and over again. ...

May 11, 2020

Maytime in Pandemic Time (Adélia Prado)

The State of May Salvation operates in the abyss. In this indescribable place, night’s power...

May 10, 2020

Mater Dolorosa

Mater Dolorosa This taffy tastes like coconut, Mama. Did you put coconut in it? –...

May 09, 2020

False Prophets

If you say, "God said" and God did not say, then that is a terminal...

May 08, 2020

Ten Rules for When You Do Not Know an Area (How to Avoid Bigfoot without also Being Duped by Group Think Experts)

We are in a pandemic and the experts do not all agree about what we...

May 06, 2020

Endure, This Too Shall Pass

Forget the monsters for a moment. Skip the lions and the den. The book of...

May 04, 2020

Pandemic Tyranny: Prado, as a Poet, and Plato

Pandemic times spawn tyrants, little dictators offering security in exchange for our liberty or the...

May 03, 2020

The Alphabet builds to the Explanation? (Adelia Prado)

Adelia Prado is a primary teacher that embeds a doctoral seminar in her simplest lessons. ...

May 02, 2020

Instinct and Intellect Balanced Equally (Dante’s Paradise)

Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being...

May 01, 2020

At the end of the Houston Shelter in Place? A post for those of us with no hot takes!

This is the first day that many “non-essential” businesses in Houston are open. The shelter...

April 2020

April 27, 2020

The Angry Interlocutor (Meno)

Hope told her daughters this: "Never marry an angry man or a man with an...

April 25, 2020

Hope’s Giant Cabbage

As we saw the pandemic coming in December, we wanted to do something. There was...

April 23, 2020

Down, but only if We Must and Mostly Up (Dante and His Journey)

Let’s go up to Zion as quickly as we can! Often we need to see...

April 22, 2020

Finding the Word Beyond Our Intellect (Old King Coel and Dorothy Sayers)

I was low and should have been. And then came a word from God and...

April 21, 2020

An Appreciation of Simon and Garfunkel

There may be a time when Simon and Garfunkel do not have something to say...

April 20, 2020

The Beginning and the End of Fire (Saint Constantine and Dorothy Sayers)

Earth and water and air- but the beginning and the ending is fire; Light in the...

April 19, 2020

Life! Life! Eternal Life!

The sun has risen in the East. The faithful at last celebrate Pacha. Christ is...

April 18, 2020

Now Our Lenten Work Is (Almost) Done (Holy Saturday)

Easier times can lead to trivial longings, but at the end of this Lenten season...

April 17, 2020

Holy Friday

O Lord my God, I will sing to You a funeral hymn, a song at...

April 15, 2020

Jesus and the Church are Here

Christ's church is one. The Creed affirms: I believe in one, holy, catholic, and Apostolic...

April 14, 2020

Titanic Day in a Pandemic

Prudence is the virtue needed in a crisis. So old stories teach us. The crisis...