To calm my baby girl down, I am re-learning some songs and since her name is Mary, I had to look up the lyrics of “Jolly Holiday” sang by Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews in the 1964 Disney movie Mary Poppins. The song is (I think) written by Richard and Robert Sherman, but the [...]
A poem by Russell Kelfer called You are who you are for a reason. You are who you are for a reason. You’re part of an intricate plan. You’re a precious and perfect unique design, Called God’s special woman or man. You look like you look for a reason. Our God made no mistake. He [...]
On my way in to work today, I was listening to WBUR and heard a person talking about observing Sabbath on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. (NOTE: later found that it was Judith Shulevitz who wrote a book called Sabbath World) I got an idea, so here I am leaving note to myself. I gave [...]
What is it? It is patient It is kind. It rejoices with truth. It bears, believes, hopes and endures all things. and it never ends. It does not envy, it does not boast. It is not arrogant, it is not rude. it does not insist on its own way, and it is not irritable or [...]
I should use my time wisely at work. It is not the time I spend on the job, but what quality and quantity of out put that I produced for the company. I need to be efficient, productive, motivated. Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. – Parkinson’s Law
My better half heard about this CBS special called In God’s Name and wanted to see it the other day. So we did. I had no idea what was going to be about, but it was fascinating. The show verified a lot of stuff for me, but I also realized how little I know about [...]
I just read a book called Dinner with a Perfect Stranger, and it was great. The book is very easy to read, a page turner. The main character, Nick, gets a invitation to have dinner with “Jesus of Nazareth.” he thinks its a prank,and skeptical, but goes to meet him anyway. I like reading book [...]
Please sign this petition for Our Lady’s pastor Fr. Walter Cuenin. The more I read about it, the more it makes me sad, and angry because it is just so unfair. There is now a group called Our Lady’s Friends, and they do a good job keeping media clippings, but simple google news query returns [...]
Yesterday was a sad day for the church I was baptized in 2003, Our Lady Help of Christians Church in Newton. Father Walter Cuenin (Pastor) suddenly resigned. He was the one who baptized me, and he also baptized our son. But more and more I read about this, it gets crazier. Both Boston.com and Boston [...]
With all the Katrina madness, I’ve been thinking about what I would have done if I was in the situation. Situation like that brings best and worst of us, they say. I remembered a famous Japanese poem that I learned, and liked a lot, when I was young. I found it online. It struck me [...]
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