Not your Vidas

"This does not mean that young people today are worse or shallower than young people in the past. It..."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:00:13 -0500

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This does not mean that young people today are worse or shallower than young people in the past. It does mean they get less help. People once lived within a pattern of being, which educated the emotions, guided the temporary toward the permanent and linked everyday urges to higher things. The accumulated wisdom of the community steered couples as they tried to earn each other’s commitment.

Today there are fewer norms that guide in that way. Today’s technology seems to threaten the sort of recurring and stable reciprocity that is the building block of trust.

”

- NY Times via David Congdon

"We pray, Jesus our teacher, that you care for all young students returning to schools. We pray..."

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:56:52 -0400

“We pray, Jesus our teacher, that you care for all young students returning to schools. We pray especially for those who receive free or reduced meals at school. May this nourishment help them to focus on their studies, and may teachers and communities support these students.”

- Sojourners Verse and Voice prayer from this morning. I need to pray this far more often.

Dwight explains why I don't care for college sports (generally)

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:07:46 -0400

Dwight explains why I don't care for college sports (generally)

Jaynes gets it right...again

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:50:41 -0400

Jaynes gets it right...again

"Executives at Paramount Pictures announced Monday that production had finally wrapped on The..."

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:34:47 -0400

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Executives at Paramount Pictures announced Monday that production had finally wrapped on The Brothers Karamazov, a new film adaptation that concludes at the precise moment most readers give up on the classic Russian novel.

The 83-minute film, which is based on the first 142 or so pages of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s acclaimed work, has already garnered attention for its stunning climax, in which the end credits suddenly appear midway through Katerina’s tearful speech about an unpaid debt.

”

- America’s Finest News Source

The whole article is wonderful, you should go read it.

"Good problems and mushrooms of certain kinds have something in common; they grow in clusters. Having..."

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:03:57 -0400

“Good problems and mushrooms of certain kinds have something in common; they grow in clusters. Having found one, you should look around; there is a good chance that there are some more quite near.”

- Another great line from George Polya in his book How to Solve It.

a DFW quote, via Kottke

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:29:28 -0400

a DFW quote, via Kottke:

lukescommonplacebook:

“The really important kind of freedom,’ said Wallace, ‘involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom… The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.’”

"But let’s make sure that we talk with one another, and not over one another. We are bound to..."

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:38:00 -0400

“But let’s make sure that we talk with one another, and not over one another. We are bound to disagree, but let’s disagree over issues that are real, and not wild misrepresentations that bear no resemblance to anything that anyone has actually proposed. This is a complicated and critical issue, and it deserves a serious debate.”

- President Obama, from an article in the New York Times found here.

This made me sad

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:08:21 -0400

This made me sad

"So what’s next for a focused, motivated Brandon Roy now that he’s locked in long-term..."

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:47:46 -0400

“So what’s next for a focused, motivated Brandon Roy now that he’s locked in long-term with more money than he can ever spend and the stability that goes with it? The world, chico, and everything in it.”

- Ben Golliver from Blazer’s Edge

I love this take, and I agree completely.

"[I] wasn’t good enough for physics, and was too good for philosophy-mathematics is in between."

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:24:26 -0400

“[I] wasn’t good enough for physics, and was too good for philosophy-mathematics is in between.”

- George Polya

This kid is awesome in so many ways

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:10:21 -0400

This kid is awesome in so many ways:

lukescommonplacebook:

make sure you watch the video all the way to the end

I finally just watched this. It’s fantastic.

The tuna/cucumber/grape tomato/avacado/spinach salad with...

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:20:41 -0400

The tuna/cucumber/grape tomato/avacado/spinach salad with raspberry lime vinagraitte, almond slivers, and feta that I’ve been making a lot this week.

for the integration of Aquinas and McCourt

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:39:05 -0400

I love this. Thanks, Wesley.

wesleyhill:

Aren’t fiction, poetry, philosophy, and theology all (ideally) part of one unified quest for wisdom in living well, in enjoying (and/or enduring) our lot? If so, why play them off against one another, especially if you’ve done that for too many years already?

"Honestly, Apple faithful, I feel like Jesus coming down from Mount Zion with those stone tablets...."

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:00:58 -0400

“Honestly, Apple faithful, I feel like Jesus coming down from Mount Zion with those stone tablets. Except my tablet is electronic, which Katie says makes me Electronic Jesus. Of course she’s kidding. We really don’t go around comparing me to Jesus. Frankly, it’s apples and oranges, and it sort of diminishes both of us to put us in a framework like that.”

- Fake Steve (via ayjay)

After Andre

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:15:05 -0400

After Andre

I love July, but sure miss the NBA

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:10:12 -0400

I love July, but sure miss the NBA

"This catastrophe of education as preparation for money-making follows directly upon the evisceration..."

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:03:34 -0400

“This catastrophe of education as preparation for money-making follows directly upon the evisceration of the liberal arts. As a consequence of these sorts of measurements - to fulfill a hunger by those who write the checks - the faculties and offerings in the humanities will shrink to a near-invisible presence on our campuses. From one perspective, this is not altogether to be lamented, given that the caretakers of the humanities came to despise the thing it was they were supposed to teach. But, from a more important perspective, it is to be lamented, because only the liberal arts helps us to know the appropriate ways to make money, helps us understand what more fundamental ends can be achieved with the fruits of our labor, and finally leads us to see why making money is not in itself the appropriate goal or end for the good life.”

- Patrick Deneen (via ayjay)

Waiting for the blue line

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:15:34 -0400

Waiting for the blue line

"The train whistle blows several times a day in this North Texas community, the familiar soundtrack..."

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:10:00 -0400

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The train whistle blows several times a day in this North Texas community, the familiar soundtrack of life in small towns located along railroad lines.

But since late last month, the sound has become a haunting reminder of the evening when a beloved couple stepped onto the tracks and stood in embrace until a train ran them down.

”

- From this article in the Dallas Morning News. (via GetReligion)