For all my Portuguese-reading friends: youtube.com/watch?v=6SougB…

This is the best book I’ve read In quite some time.

"The orientation of the economy has favoured a kind of technological progress in which the costs of production are reduced by laying off workers and replacing them with machines. This is yet another way in which we can end up working against ourselves." -Francis, "Laudato si"

I started my Netflix DVD account in 2005 with the great Crimes and Misdemeanors. More than 18 years later, they are closing down the business and just sent out my last disk:

I revisited Whit Stillman's DAMSELS IN DISTRESS this weekend and decided to write about it in the context of mental illness: gladsomemorning.com/2023/10/09/dam…

Fear causes us to shrink back from one another. Trust in God and one another prompts us outward in love toward relationship.

Fear seeks control. Trust cedes control.

I’ve enjoyed watching this Rangers run. Hopefully they get one more series win.

"When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity—that was a quality God’s image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes . . . it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination." --Graham Greene

“I came to see that because you don’t need friends, and they don’t need you, you must seek them out.” Interesting piece on friendship. hedgehogreview.com/issues/markets…

"Discrimination in one’s words is certainly required, but not love of one’s words—that is a form of self-love, a fatal love which leads a young writer to . . . excesses." --Graham Greene

My new favorite Christmas decorations!

I've checked. This only applies to books, never to course lectures.

This is a fantastic photo….especially the look on Harden’s face.

"Remember that men will go on doing the same things even if you should burst in protest." --Marcus Aurelius

"I ask God, who empowers us both to speak and to listen, that I may be enabled to speak in such a way that you will derive the greatest possible benefit from listening, and that you may listen in such a way that the speaker will have no regrets." --The Epistle to Diognetus

"God sent him in gentleness and meekness, as a king might send his son who is a king; he sent him as God; he sent him as a human to humans. When he sent him, he did so as one who saves by persuasion, not compulsion, for compulsion is no attribute of God." --Epistle to Diognetus

"God always wants to make good that which is wrong." --Origen, Against Celsus

“What is created will never be annihilated, even though it be corruptible.” --Thomas Aquinas

"Ignorance that believes is better than rash knowledge." --John Calvin