A Lifetime of Love Saw a post recently from the wife (and friend) of a college chum who died of cancer last year. He battled for about three years before it got him. They were married for something like 29 years. Like all of their adult lives. She wrote about how hard it is, dealing …
Jazz with Howie
Sitting in the car on a rainy afternoon. Jazz on the radio, old school. 91.1 FM, KCSM (the "CSM" stands for College of San Mateo). Smooth groove, easy on ears, heart, soul, purring, pouring out the jam. The rain water collects on the windows, tap tap tap it falls, beads, drips down. This place, a …
Wow! Interstellar Traveler, Comet 2i Borisov.
This story has it all, if you like outer space: galaxies, other worlds, interstellar travel (between stars, over millions of years!), exploration, discovery, it's all here. Only the second known comet to travel to our solar system from elsewhere in the Milky Way. How DO they study comets? WHO studies comets? How do the coordinate …
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Bei Bei, Giant Pandas, Diplomacy, and Mother Earth
I heard this piece recently on the radio driving to work. If you like animals and conservation, then this one is right up your ally: it's about the lengths we humans have gone in effort to save the Giant Panda from extinction. Bei Bei is the name of a panda cub born in 2015 to …
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Blog Like a Tweet: “Advent Brings Hope, Only After a Sober Look at Our Human Prospects”| The Jesuit Post
Reflection brings the attitude. #halffullallgood "Advent Brings Hope, Only After a Sober Look at Our Human Prospects" | The Jesuit Post — Read on thejesuitpost.org/2019/12/advent-brings-hope-only-after-a-sober-look-at-our-human-prospects/
Lyrics Post: “Old Town Road”
My kids love this song. They all sing it in the car. My son wants to hear it while he takes a bath. Got to admit it’s pretty catchy. And a 20 year old song writer who launched via the internet, and has Billy Ray Cyrus and Trent Reznor in his corner? Gotta be something …
Life Admin
There's a myriad of things we need to do week to week, month to month, and year to year, to keep life going in the right direction. It's the bills, memberships, periodic review of material that helps our home, family, life function. You might refer to it as "Life Admin." That's what they called it …
Blog Like a Tweet: Little Public Service Gestures for Those You Love and Live With
Little Public Service Gestures for Those You Love and Live With. Good rule to live by. Do the next right thing. Look around. Opportunity abounds. These hair ties are all around my houses. I live with three women with long hair. Got to expect that. And so picking these up and putting them in a …
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Take a Sniff, Learn a Little, Learn a Little More
This and that, a lot things you maybe didn't know about your nose and sense of smell, tidbits that might make you appreciate your schnoz a little more. Olfactory? GOOD. one.npr.org/i/780416661:783343744
Where We Are
God finds us where we are. Wherever we are. Whatever we are doing. God is there. We might prefer to ignore the presence; it might be inconvenient for the moment. But God is there. I remind myself of this belief, this fact (in my view), more and more, as I get older. As I struggle …
