Life carries a death sentence.

You will leave the world just as you entered it.

All of the current chaos is ephemeral.

Eternity is long.

The only legacy that matters is how your relationships have influenced others who live after you are gone.

Love easily. Forgive easily.

Reminder from 2023:
I'm reading The Long Truce by AJ Conyers which proves through historical analysis that the concept of tolerance has been used by governments since the 16th century to force indifference in nations toward all values except political power & material prosperity.

Pope Pius XI encyclical, Quas Primas

'as long as individuals and states refused to submit to the rule of our Savior, there would be no really hopeful prospect of a lasting peace among nations. Men must look for the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ.'

The past is never dead. It's not even
past.
All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose

Imagine thinking government schools are free.

Nothing is free.

They raise your child, brainwash your child to hate themselves, you, and civilization.

They might learn to read.

The long-term costs are immense.

'I am not afraid, for God is with me, I was born to do this'

God put you on earth at this time for a reason.

The battle is temporal and spiritual and you have been chosen to fight.

(Joan of Arc, Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

Mankind may have every advantage over all other creatures because he can contemplate and reason, but man is also burdened by these same abilities, the ability to worry and lament the passage of time toward his own death.

'Men will learn eventually, and if they
insist on rejecting the received wisdom of generations past, they do not thereby succeed at invalidating it; they merely condemn themselves to learning it, time and again, by ever grimmer experience.'

~Hilaire Belloc

America sank low enough in the past century that it finally began 'the downward plunge which has brought us to the present time, when we can endure neither our vices nor their cure.'

~Livy on the fall of Rome

Pediatrican Ben Carson: parents literally thought their kids had ADHD when they were simply on social media too much:

Ben Carson: Before I retired, I noticed a lot of parents were coming to me, saying, “Should we put our kids on this [drug], because they’ve been diagnosed with

Saint George

Carlo Crivelli, 1472

Lamia

1905

John William Waterhouse  (1849–1917)

In my humble opinion, the most beautiful sculpture in the world.

Pieta'

Michelangelo, 1498

Godspeed
Edmund Blair Leighton
1900

Bedtime
Joseph Clark
(British, 1834-1926)

Grok on the FishEaters website:

Bringing a fire extinguisher to a flood, Catholics dalla sinistra warn us, the most amnesiac and culturally rootless people ever to walk the earth, that conservatives risk trapping themselves in the past.

News flash: every literary, artistic, musical, and cultural revival that I

The thermonuclear reaction to Butker’s speech tells me THIS is where the battle is. The principalities and powers of this age don’t want loving, godly, fruitful marriages, and such marriages are the greatest threat to the forces of darkness.

They just told us how we win.

So I'm supposed to just pretend that Trump is not actively endorsing every single incumbent RINO who embodies the reason why his supporters elected him? There is literally not a single rino on the ballot today Trump has not endorsed. In fact, to my knowledge, the only incumbent

I'm not sure if we live in the most evil times in history, but there's no doubt that we live in the most stupid times in history