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Posted on September 4, 2018

“silence of the heart is much more important than silence of the mouth”

From Henri Nouwen’s The Way of The Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers These examples of silence in preaching, counseling, and organizing are meant to illustrate how…

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Posted on September 3, 2018September 3, 2018

“Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.” – Henri Nouwen on solitude and compassion

From Nouwen’s The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers Here we reach the point where ministry and spirituality touch each other. It is compassion.…

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Posted on September 3, 2018

“there is no one these days, absolutely no one, who still looks like what he should look like, for we use our heads even more impersonally than our hands.”

From The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil   Walter was frustrated. He searched, he wavered. Suddenly he burst out: “He is a man without qualities!” “What’s that?” J Clarisse asked, with…

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Posted on September 2, 2018September 1, 2018

Extinct in Ireland: September 2, the wolf

Extinct in Ireland continues! From Padraic Fogarty’s “Whittled Away” Wolf: Widespread and probably abundant in Ireland until a concerted extermination programme finished off the last one in the late 1700s. I…

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Posted on September 1, 2018September 1, 2018

The perils of codewords

An amusing (though historically significant) misunderstanding from Brian Cathcart’s “Test of Greatness: Britain’s Struggle for the Atomic Bomb” “For security reasons the Manhattan Project had been ‘compartmentalized’ and as a result,…

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Posted on September 1, 2018

“Mankind must join a sort of resistance movement. What will become of our world if it does not look for intervals of silence?”

From “The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise” by Robert Cardinal Sarah, Nicolas Diat:   Mankind must join a sort of resistance movement. What will become of our…

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Posted on August 31, 2018August 31, 2018

Can a board games make you cry? A thread from the BoardGameGeek forums

This thread actually has the slightly less emotionally impactful title “can board games be emotionally impactful?” Obviously the denizens of this forum are board game aficionados. Some of the posts…

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Posted on August 27, 2018

Nithin Coca – “How I Fully Quit Google”

Could you stop using Google products? Completely? Not just Google Search, but Gmail, Calendar, and all the rest of their stable of products and services. Nithin Coca has done just…

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