Posted in Random thoughts, Techie Stuff on 31 January 2008 | 4 Comments »
The last few days, I’ve been worried about how I was going to get to the mothership in Baden (western PA) for our Saturday meeting, since my part of Michigan is due to be clobbered with 6 to 10 inches of snow starting at midnight tonight. I was planning to leave immediately after my 11:00 [...]
Posted in Nun, Spirituality on 30 January 2008 | 9 Comments »
Yeah, kind of like a sequel to the old hymn, “Blessed Assurance”…
Allow me to share with you this quote:
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot [...]
Posted in Spirituality on 28 January 2008 | 3 Comments »
In my last post, I mentioned the Emmaus story… “Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us on the road…?” That image of my heart on fire with God’s love has been for some time a foundational one for me. Sometimes the fire is more like hot embers, not flaming, but [...]
Posted in Spirituality on 27 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yes, so it was at Columbiere, not Manresa. Silly me, not thinking to ask where the retreat was. Anyway, it was a retreat for CLC’ers in the Detroit area, and I’m really glad I went, even though I arrived late. Kuruvila and Lois Zachariah from Waterloo, Ontario were our retreat leaders, and the theme was [...]
Posted in Spirituality on 25 January 2008 | 7 Comments »
So, I’m headed off to Manresa Jesuit Retreat House for a weekend retreat. I wasn’t planning to attend, because my budget wouldn’t allow, but one of my fellow CLC’ers let me know Thursday night of some scholarship funds the regional CLC sets aside for such purposes. So since most of the rest of my group [...]
Posted in Random thoughts, Spirituality on 24 January 2008 | No Comments »
I happened to be home today and turned on the Ellen show. Wayne Dyer was a guest, and was talking about positive thinking and the truth about how we are all in this together, that it doesn’t make sense to have enemies when you realize that. Well, he said something else I want to remember…
Having [...]
Posted in Random thoughts, Techie Stuff on 23 January 2008 | No Comments »
If you are thinking about hosting a blog, check out the latest news from the WordPress crew. Basically, they are upping the quota of free storage space from 50MB to 3GB, a 60-fold increase! Now I’ll have to start giving you more pictures to break up the text…
So how’s this for a random photo…? It [...]
Posted in Anti-racism, Justice, Techie Stuff on 21 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
In honor of our remembrance of MLK’s birthday, and as a reminder of the work that still lies ahead, I’ve added a new feature to this blog. If you scroll down, you’ll see on the side bar a link to videos that I recommend. My first pick is of the entire “I have a dream” [...]
Posted in Anti-racism, Justice on 19 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
A friend of mine is the editor of the journal “Technology and Culture,” and he found the following in Atlantic Monthly:
Now that the stereotype of the poverty-stricken terrorist has been dispelled by studies showing that militancy and high levels of education go hand in hand, a new Oxford study tries to explain why so many [...]
Posted in Random thoughts on 18 January 2008 | No Comments »
What a week it has been…a conference paper that I had almost given up on getting done…done and submitted - BEFORE today’s 5:00 deadline! Good thing my colleague had more of a fire in his belly about it…we worked until 11:00 last night, and then for a couple of hours today. Now after 5:00, I [...]
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