Saturday, January 02, 2016
Articles of Faith ~
Tuesday, December 08, 2015
Facing Reality ~
Friday, November 13, 2015
Consumption
I watch the trucks passing by and ask if we need everything their loaded with. Wouldn't we be happier without? If only we could concentrate on the pearl we have.
Saturday, November 07, 2015
Thomas Merton ~
Lauding him as a "representative of the American people "
Pope Francis said:
"Merton was above all a man of prayer, a thinker who challenged the certitudes of his time and opened new horizons for souls and for the Church. He was also a man of dialogue, a promoter of peace between peoples and religions."
... words in an address before Congress.
September 24, 2015
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Rammenau Castle near Dresden ~
At a concert here last evening they played some Scott Joplin and Leroy Anderson while on the walls the portraits of nobles who once lived here looked down at us with knitted brows.
Thursday, October 08, 2015
Friday, August 21, 2015
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Thursday, August 06, 2015
Insight ? ~
"For me pain has no meaning."
Statement by Peter Hintze
Vice President of the German Bundestag.
Protestant theologian,
while debating assisted suicide.
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Monday, June 22, 2015
Helps in Life ~
What this Carthusian monk does,
in silence and solitude,
is my constant strengthening inspiration.
La Grande Chartreuse, Grenoble, France
Friday, June 12, 2015
Friday, May 08, 2015
To a Razor ~
Praised be you, my razor,
for serving me for six months,
unlike those that needed new blades daily
back when I was twenty-one.
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Nazi Concentration Liberated ~ April 15, 1945
Shades of Shoah
One Sunday morning in Munich
Seventy years later
Six suitcases painted white
Stood on a sidewalk
Each with a rose stuck on
And nametags.
People walked past,
Stopped, bent over to read
And continued on
With shoulders stooped—
Wrenched from Sunday calm.
Friday, March 27, 2015
To Understand the World ~
"To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole. . ."
from: The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
Thursday, February 05, 2015
Outside My Window ~
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Merton's 100th Birthday ~
Monday, January 12, 2015
Mothers of the Fallen ~
Sunday, January 04, 2015
We Are All Brothers ~
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Civil Courage ~ Good Angel
Monday, November 24, 2014
Vain Effort ~
Thursday, November 13, 2014
God's Harlequin ~
In spite of all my weaknesses, my hang-ups, my excesses I know that I am Your creation, Your flawed creation. Maybe, maybe, You have always wanted me just that way. Maybe You take delight in me. That's why I bear with myself, trusting You.
Monday, September 15, 2014
Destination ~
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Arnold Palmer ~ 85th Birthday
Dear Arnie,
Would like to let you know that you were, and are, an inspiration for me on my life's rough fairways. I often recalled your composed determination, and it kept me going.
Thank you so much,
Charles [4 years younger]
____________
♰ September 25, 2016
Monday, August 25, 2014
Remembering the Holocaust ~
Seventy Years Later
Auschwitz
One Sunday morning in Munich
Seventy years later
I saw six suitcases painted white
Standing on a sidewalk
Each with a rose stuck on
And nametags.
People came past
Stopped, bent over to read
And continued on with stooped shoulders—
Wrenched from Sunday calm.
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Like a Morning Prayer ~
Friday, June 27, 2014
Deep Fear ~
Thursday, June 05, 2014
Rewards ~
The University of Rostock in Germany is going to present Edward Snowden with an honorary doctorate degree, honoris causa. . .
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Ochenhausen, Germany ~
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Discomfort ~
Why does it affect me so, that the little five-year-old next door [whom I do not know] will not even as much as say hello?
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Hustle and Bustle ~
Wednesday, May 07, 2014
Not Knowing ~
In all the great decisions of my 80 years it was best that I did not know everything that was involved. Knowing would have paralyzed me.
Friday, April 18, 2014
For the Mothers of the Fallen ~
Good Friday, 2014
You, dear son, died lone. When Jesus died his mother was at his side.
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