Dave Letterman has been regularly mocking President Bush with his great moments in presidential history spot each night. He’s going to have to come up with a new spot next year when President Bush leaves office. Will it be John McCain, Hillary or Obama?
Archive for January, 2008
Letterman on Bush
Posted in President Bush, humor, tagged Letterman, President Bush on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No news is good for me
Posted in Navy, military, tagged boot camp, News, US Navy on January 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Life has been very busy and I’ve not had time to record my thoughts here in a number of days. I also missed the second anniversary of my entry into blogging. I’m grateful to all the folks who stop by and read my thoughts and in turn share their own. Blogging and blog reading has [...]
When the teacher is ready
Posted in Education, k-12, tagged Education, MacBook, Microsoft Windows, software, Ubuntu on January 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There’s an old axiom that when the teacher is ready the pupil or pupils will present themselves. Today at work I sat down in our high school library to install software on a new MacBook. A student next to me had an older Dell Inspiron 1100 and I asked him if it was his [...]
An expanding universe
Posted in Christian, Thomas Merton, Trappist, mindfulness, monastic, mystic, tagged contemplative, theology, Thomas Merton on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thomas Merton gives voice to a recurring thought of my own and that is the Word in a world where we understand more than when the words were first recorded.
I must get to know something of modern physics. Even though I am a monk, that is no reason for living in a Newtonian universe [...]
Jesus Wine of Peace
Posted in Jesus, Mt. Irenaeus, Peace, St. Bonaventure University, mindfulness, monastic, mystic, prayer, tagged contemplative, Franciscan, Jesus, Mt. Irenaeus, Peace on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today was very cold. I think it was about 7 degrees fahrenheit this morning as I ventured up to Mt. Irenaeus for Mass. The roads up to the mountain were snow covered but passable. My journey was very peaceful. There is something very contemplative in winter. A stillness that occurs when the earth [...]
Insanity defined
Posted in President Bush, Senate, Spiritual, culture, democracy, military, olean times herald, tagged ecomic stimulus, poor, tax cuts on January 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A popular definition of insanity is repeating the same destructive behavior over and over again expecting different results. Front page news in today’s Olean Times Herald revealed that President Bush is proposing an economic stimulus package that includes $150 billion in tax cuts. Presidents since Ronald Reagan have been proposing that “trickle down economics” will [...]
More true today than ever
Posted in Ahimsa, Martin Luther KIng, Peace, Satyagraha, Spiritual, military, mindfulness, mystic, prayer, tagged contemplative, Marrtin Luther King, Peace, war on January 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Excerpts from a speech given at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in April of 1967, by one of the greatest prophets of my time. This man is a saint in my book, though he has never been officially recognized as one. Martin’s words ring as true today as they did then. Thank God for Martin Luther [...]
Remembering Martin
Posted in Ahimsa, Christian, Martin Luther KIng, Peace, Satyagraha, Spiritual, military, mindfulness, mystic, prayer, tagged Martin Luther KIng, non-violence, Peace, prophet on January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’ll soon celebrate Dr. King’s birthday. In the years since his death and especially since his birthday became a national holiday there has been a collective effort by government and the media to sanitize Martin’s message. This quote came from an article in this week’s National Catholic Reporter by Fr. John Dear and it’s [...]
Roots
Posted in culture, mystic, tagged Alex Haley, ancestors, Roots, Thich Nhat Hanh on January 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night at dinner our daughter was describing a class she is taking. I don’t know the title, but the content deals with Frederick Douglass and slavery in America. She really loves her teacher who is a Ph.D candidate and very animated about this subject. Her homework this weekend involves slave chronicles. [...]
