You don’t have to finish First; You just have to finish Together
Nature, Places, Posts
A Pastoral Interlude in the Nature Reserves – 10.5 Km and 51 Years
Nature, Persons, Places, Posts
This is Busan, Korea
These photos, taken over two seasons in Spring, of the coastal city in the southern tip of South Korea is a wonderful reminder of the rhythm of the city as the seasons pace themselves through the year. Busan is neither metropolis nor a village, and its roots as a seaport is revealed by the dotted…
Nature, Places, Posts
The Dwarf Peacock – Caesalpinia pulcherrima I
The Caesalpinia pulcherrima or Dwarf Peacock never fails to delight the parakeets as they harvest the pods and seeds. While the strict gardener will remove the pods to preserve the beauty of the bushy canopy and profuse flowers, I will leave the pods for the birds as they noisily munch on the seeds and scatter…
Complex & Simple, Nature, Places, Posts
On Silence in Conversations
1 There is a bad time to rebuke someone. Those who keep silent are the prudent ones. 2 How much better to investigate than to be angry! 3 And those who confess openly will be kept from loss. 4 Like eunuchs desiring to violate a girl, so are those who make decisions by force. 5…
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On FallingWaters
This is the house that Frank Lloyd Wright built over a waterfall at Bear Run, Fayette County, in rural southwestern Pennsylvannia for the family of Edgar J. Kaufmann, owner of Kaufmann’s department store, as a weekend home. It is regarded as one of the architect’s most beautiful masterpiece, building over the falls instead of…
Complex & Simple, Places, Posts
The Narrow Gate 1
Enter by the narrow gate, since the road that leads to destruction is wide and spacious, and many take it; but it is a narrow gate and a hard road that leads to life, and only a few find it Photo note: Taken at mid-day on Hill Street at the mouth of the Singapore…
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Desert Reflections 3
For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is a good thing., but if salt has become insipid, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves and be at peace with one another. (Mk 49-50) Photonote: May 2016, at Badwaters, Death Valley National Park, CA. GM1
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Desert Reflections 2
The paved desert road in modern times, is like an air-conditioned carpet through a presently desolate but geologically recent and verdant past. But it’s not lifeless.
Complex & Simple, Persons, Posts
The Power of Positive Thinking
“There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit” Plaque on President Ronald Reagan’s desk (1980-88) “The whole idea of the Presidency is having somebody in the Oval Office who can try to get above the bickering and buttonholing in the cloakrooms…
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Desert Reflections (in Josef Neuner’s “Walking With Him” – Day 1) )
I first came across the works of Father Josef Neuner, S.J., in several scholarly articles published in Review for Religious (2001) on interpreting the spiritual journey and darkness of Mother Theresa of Calcutta. In a posthumous collection of her personal letters, Come be My Light (Doubleday 2007), representing her ‘unauthorized’ autobiography, Father Neuner was indeed the spiritual director…