Funny the muse, spark from anywhere. This time emerged from reading a nutritional comparison of Spinach & Romaine. Folate. Also know as vitamin B9. More in Spinach than Romaine, Get your daily dose of Folate for long-term health, GOOD.
Here Are Three
List three books that have had an impact on you. Why? Here are three, three books of maybe 33 books that have meant something to me, s Still do, Stayed with me, re-read still, decades later, seeking more goodness from the words, stories, insights, THE PROPHET, book of poems about life, by Lebanese poet, Khalil …
Periodic Injection, Humanity
From Leo’s recent encyclical, Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a …
Summer Knocking
Funny thing, Summer Time. As students, we’re wired to having that time off, a break…13 years we spend conditioned to this yearly pace and pattern. I grew up in a teacher family, so that structure was all the more re-enforced. But all that said, gotta say, I think it’s also important to counterbalance, Realize that …
Remembering Hoagy
Funny thing, inside joke, maybe only for me now. When I was growing up my dad seemed to have a thing with nicknames. For example, my brother was “bud”, while I was called “bomber”; these were just names my dad sometimes used. He had different nicknames for some of his friends and colleagues as well. …
Celebrate Your People
The essence of GOOD. I’m an alum of Santa Clara University. I’m still close with many of my classmates. A family from that bigger circle has a son who is a baseball player at St. Mary’s College, here in the greater Bay Area as well. He’s a senior. And St. Mary’s was our sometimes rival …
Another Take: After Memorial Day
I have family who served in the military, even in war-time, all those years ago, Vietnam; I have a cousin in the Navy now. I considered service as I was finishing high school, even had a path to scholarship, but then decided against it; the chain of command did not so appeal to me. Considering …
Believer
Do you practice religion? Yes indeed, Believer … life-long practice in varied manner over the years … raised in the Episcopal tradition … then expanded to incorporate Ignatian Spirituality … other religious & meditative practices as well, Though the structured doctrines are sometimes at odds, thus I do not currently engage in scheduled religious activities, …
Pausing The Pang
Pausing the pang, as in hunger pang, I have the luxury to do so, two basics to my story. First, as I rapidly approach the end of my 50’s and commence my 60’s, time is about up with any delay about getting to a healthier body and practice; thing is, I’ve loved eating for 45 …
Go Leo GO
Capturing this post lifted from X, a primer for the first letter out from from Leo, Pope Leo, The Supreme Pontiff, Bishop of Rome, what say you as the world struggles? Yea verily, so thankful for this voice, vision, inspiration, “As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human …
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