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My rating: 1 of 5 stars It’s sad to say, but this book just bored me.

My rating: 1 of 5 stars I don’t feel like spending a long time tearing this book apart, so I’ll just say it briefly.

My rating: 3 of 5 stars I picked this up for free from the Amazon Lending Library.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars Tigran Petrosian, the Iron Tigran, is undoubtedly one of the greatest defensive chess grand masters of all time.

My rating: 3 of 5 stars I bought this book with the intention of building up a little library of children’s stories for my kids.

My rating: 1 of 5 stars I love eastern philosophy.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was my first Agatha Christie novel and what a wonderful read it was.

My rating: 3 of 5 stars This hasn’t been a great year in the reading department so far.

My rating: 2 of 5 stars (I’m going to murder Goodreads for just deleting the huge, detailed review I just wrote.

When I was in boot camp we weren’t allowed to drink things while walking.

Yes, I served.

When I begin there is this moment of confusion.

What if I told you there was a magical berry that grew in some far-off place, like West Africa, that when eaten would make everything else you ate taste amazing?

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. - Henry David Thoreau - Journal (Aug. 23, 1853) Every quarter year or so I am assailed by the same seasonal misconception.

There’s been a lot of talk lately about “The Cloud”.

“It’s all about control.

I was inspired to write a poem thanks to a new friend. breath comes slowly, waiting eager to rush in, desperate to reach you, to touch the deepness inside, so far so close to me, hope!

This was written on Friday, July 6th, 2007.

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. - Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen. - New American Bible (NAB) Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and cer…

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. - Edmund Burke - On the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) When Burke began writing about the sublime, he offered a wonderful new delineation.

Sophomore year of high school brought me one of the most tragic events to have stricken my short life: the death of the Tan M&M (hereafter referred to as Ambrosia).

There are so many kinds of love.

After I was accepted into the novitiate, the Vocation Director offered a warning that the time before entrance day could be very difficult.

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And He began telling this parable: “A man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any.

I’ve had a lot of interviews over the past couple weeks, interviews with several Jesuits, a wonderfully funny nun, and a few doctors.

[It] is not knowing much, but realizing and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul. - St.

Mine eyes will ne’re behold which my heart dost see so clearly inward stirs this passion deep, benighting leading my path away from all and to my love I reach out for thee and pray your hand be there to welcome mine your light to illum where my light be s…

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Lemonberry Shantyball.

My great uncle Dave recently passed away.

‘Behold, days are coming,’ declares the LORD, ‘when I will fulfill the good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and the house of Judah.’ - Jeremiah 33:14 Advent, from the Latin verb advenire—’to come’ or adventus—‘an arrival’.

Jesus set the book of nature before me and I saw that all the flowers He has created are lovely.

The only oddity one could fix was that his nose, which was otherwise of a good shape, was just slightly turned sideways at the tip; as if when it was soft it had been tapped on one side with a toy hammer.

Of all those boulevards blurred into the sunset There’s one (I know not which) that I have strolled Across for the last time without a care, And unaware of what it was, controlled By One who predesigns almighty norms, All laws and a strict scale in secrecy

Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him–a renewal in which there is no distinction between

When I was young my family spent Thanksgiving in Ohio with my grandparents.

I pretend not to teach, but to inquire; and therefore cannot but confess here again,–that external and internal sensation are the only passages I can find of knowledge to the understanding.

In the process of preparing myself for a Jesuit lifestyle, I’ve started trying to integrate not only more prayer in my day, but specifically Ignatian types of prayer.

A morbid haze drifted vapidly through the park impregnating the space below the old oaks.

In the canoe, the Indian smiled.

He had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchm…

When I lived in Indiana, one semester at IUPUI I had a four hour break between classes on Tuesdays.

When I lived in Indiana, one semester at IUPUI I had a four hour break between classes on Tuesdays.

I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour. - Ray Bradbury - All Summer in a Day We sneaked up to the roof to share a cigarette.

So the people shouted, and priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and they took…

A few weeks ago I posted about my new alarm clock, Zeo.

As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves but does not speak … I want you to pray for me — that I let Him have free hand. - Mother Teresa, Letter to Rev.

When I was in the Navy I had problems waking up at 0400 to study before class like I needed.

You are a giant inflated again and again by processed and salient memories constructed, shaped by the careful planning of passing time Inside you are the outside formless, grand without regard to decency or privacy, self, tact without regret without But o…