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Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things.
---Thomas Merton

Tag: love

Love Alone

Celebrating Valentine’s Day? You brainless slob.

I, Like, Love You

I’m not exactly shy in my sentiments for this day. My fervor at an anti-VD party induced my only blackout night. I will not even invoke (and thus further besmirch) the name of that Virtuous martyr whose name has been unfortunately yoked to this darkest of days. Nonetheless, the date stamp at [...]

Art! the Herald Angels Sing

(the 2007 Christmas email, for virtual posterity)
In the beginning, there was art. There were sunrises, nocturnes, landscapes, still lifes. Finally, The Eternal Artist fiddled with figures and formed a pair fit to express His image. He saw that they were good and so decided to be fruitful and multiply, expressing Himself uniquely [...]