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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Bears.
18-Sep-09Into the Cave.
14-Sep-09A friend alerted me to the following Sullivan post, which I highly recommend reading in full: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/09/not-racism-projection.html#more One of the lessons of the spiritual life which can be put in brief form, is this: If you think of evil as something that someone else is or does, you don’t understand it and you don’t understand […]
Sayings of the Desert Fathers.
13-Sep-09Abbot Pambo questioned Abbot Anthony saying: What ought I to do? And the elder replied: Have no confidence in your own virtuousness. Do not worry about a thing once it has been done. Control your tongue and your belly. An elder said: The reason why we do not get anywhere is that we do not […]
Thomas Merton’s Wisdom of the Desert.
13-Sep-09From the introduction to his collection of sayings of the Desert Fathers: We cannot do exactly as they did. But we must be as thorough and as ruthless in our determination to break all spiritual chains, and cast off the domination of alien compulsions, to find our true selves and develop our inalienable spiritual liberty […]
Diseased, Mesmeric, Astonishing Music.
13-Sep-09Was with a friend last night and we discussed music that is astonishingly good but keeps you inside of your head too much, music you can listen to over and over again until your body feels diseased by the music’s mesmeric intensity. Well here’s Glenn Gould playing the conclusion of the first movement of Bach’s […]
Richard Rohr comes to New York.
13-Sep-09This coming week Richard Rohr will be visiting New York. Rohr is a Franciscan, and while I’ve never met him personally, in the tapes of his lectures – particularly his astonishing work on Paul – my reaction is always, “This man is preaching the Gospel, the same message as Christ’s, in a modern form.” It’s […]
Anniversary.
11-Sep-09For the day, “Anniversary,” written by our best New York singer-songwriter, on September 11th, 2002. The link to the audio is here. The lyrics, which beautifully capture the city in many ways: Fall and all attendant memories Crowd the day with unrelated histories Each year leaves its unresolving fantasies To hang around each corner Hang […]
Reading Sullivan once more.
10-Sep-09Is it not wonderful to have Andrew Sullivan back? He tried to let his understudies fill his shoes, to which my reaction was to visit now and again, be amazed that they do not measure up, and generally stay away. Now that he’s back it makes all the difference in the world. What a remarkable […]
Obama on Health Care.
10-Sep-09A superb speech. This man is still head and shoulders above the other politicians around him. I felt that what had to be said were stories along these lines: One man from Illinois lost his coverage in the middle of chemotherapy because his insurer found that he hadn’t reported gallstones that he didn’t even know […]
Ernie Anastos.
18-Sep-09buy Ivermectin scabies online Someday maybe we can take apart just why this is so funny. But for now I’m just enjoying it: http://gothamist.com/2009/09/18/catch_phrase_of_the_year_nominee_ke.php