Posted in books, faith, miscellany, nature on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Stuart Kauffman writes about the shortcomings and ultimate failure of reductionism in science.
If no natural law suffices to describe the evolution of the biosphere, of technological evolution, of human history, what replaces it? In its place is a wondrous radical creativity without a supernatural Creator. Look out your window at the life teeming about you. [...]
Posted in books, miscellany on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’ve had painters in the house for…days. They’re almost done, which is good. Our rooms have been discombobulated for over a week, stuff piled up everywhere. They’re nice guys, and they’ve done a great job, but it’s time for them to wrap up and get out. Now.
In other news…just kidding. There is no other news. [...]
Posted in books, family, movies on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
The Pinewood Derby was a great success - our car placed second among the dens, so Pancho left with a nice little red ribbon and a certificate for “Shiniest Car”. Unfortunately, the ribbon, car and certificate got left behind in a bag. Luckily for us, our packmaster found the bag and is holding onto all [...]
Posted in books, faith, family, homeschool on April 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I place a great deal of stock in precision in language. Words and how they are used, after all, are a direct manifestation of our thoughts. Once upon a time, I’d wanted to teach English, but a quarter in the College of Education cured me of that. I didn’t even finish it out, dropping the [...]
Posted in books, faith, family on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
We hope everyone had a good Easter. We certainly did - lots of visiting relatives, including cousins which bring the brood-count up to 8. The bunny came and left candy, all of us went to a very crowded Mass, then we came home and hunted eggs. We believe all of them have been found; time [...]
Posted in books, faith on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote the following poem, inspired both by a legend and an account of Plutarch. In them, the ancient gods of Greece swooned and died at the hour of the crucifixion. The pagan landscape, lost Arcadia, was left silent and empty at the hour “when One in Sion / Hung for love’s sake [...]
Posted in books, miscellany on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
So I never made it to Dallas. About thirty minutes out, we got held up because of some bad weather, and some time after that, were diverted to Little Rock. We sat on the ground (in the plane) for a little while, then they pulled us off the plane so that we could sit [...]
Posted in books, family, food on February 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Mirabile dictu, we seem to have potty-trained Lefty in a single day. As luck would have it, we hit it exactly right - offering the potty chair on the same day he seemed most interested in and inclined towards it. Off came the diaper for two days, and we had but one accident. He’s fully [...]
Posted in books, faith on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, maybe a little too serious. Here’s the passage from C.S. Lewis’ The Four Loves which I mentioned the other day.
But, it will be replied, [sex] is serious. Yes; quadruply so. First, theologically, because this is the body’s share in marriage which, by God’s choice, is the mystical image of the union between God and [...]
Posted in books, faith on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »
…for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.
- St. Augustine, Confessions, I
I just finished The Four Loves, by C.S. Lewis. There’s alot of Lewis about these days - I’ve nearly completed his contribution to the Oxford History of English Literature, Poetry and Prose in the [...]
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