Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
From Laudato Si, Pope Francis, 2015. Sections 222-223: Christian spirituality proposes an alternative understanding of the quality of life, and encourages a prophetic and contemplative lifestyle, one capable of deep…
I came across the above phrase here : One of the dangers of forming a modern identity around achievement is what Rev. Tim Keller calls “the success-failure whiplash.” Succeeding in…
From my other medically-focused blog, here is the text of my review of Ancient Medicine by Vivian Nutton from Nthposition.com.
Not sure what has moved me to resurrect this old post, but here are two letters I sent to the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism from May 2010 and then May 2014 on…
The whole point of #Inktober is to draw and share … which I have failed to do a) by not keeping up and b) by being not very good at…
Joachim Rønneberg has died. He was the last living link with the heroics of the Norwegian resistance’s sabotage of the Nazi driver for the atomic bomb, via infiltration of the…
From Fabula Argentea, here is a nice little vignette by Gordon Cash: In a rare idle hour, I watched the two ancient-looking men play chess. The Parks Department had installed…
Séamus Sweeney 