I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Comments Made in the Year 1955 (the year I was born).
If they think I’ll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
The artist enters into himself to work. For the “superior” soul is a forge where inspiration kindles a fire of white heat, a crucible for the transformation of natural images into new, created forms. But the mystic enters into himself, not in order to work, but to pass through the center of his own soul and lose himself in the mystery and secrecy and infinite, transcendent reality… p. 21
From Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing edited by Robert Inchausti.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Comments Made in the Year 1955 (the year I was born).
No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $35.00 a day in the hospital it’s too rich for my blood.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
One of the results of all this could well be a complete and holy transparency: living, praying and writing in the light of the holy spirit, losing myself entirely by becoming public property just as Jesus is public property in the Mass. p. 15
From Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing edited by Robert Inchausti.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Comments Made in the Year 1955 (the year I was born).
There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
And yet it seems to me that writing, far from being an obstacle to spiritual perfection in my own life, has become one of the conditions on which my perfection will depend. p. 14
From Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing edited by Robert Inchausti.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Comments Made in the Year 1955 (the year I was born).
The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
And Lax”s vision is a vision of the day when they will turn on the radio and somebody will start telling them what they really have been wanting to hear and needing to know. p. 3
[The two are rarely one and the same. Most want to hear that everything is good. That they”ve been doing exactly what they should be doing; that they needn”t change a thing. What they need to know is that if they”re not changing, they dying. JH]
From Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing edited by Robert Inchausti.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Comments Made in the Year 1955 (the year I was born).
Thank goodness I won’t live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to congress.
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Found in my electronic chapbook.
Meditation seems to enhance this temporal lobe activity. So does communication between the two hemispheres… p. 261
[As suggested by the acquisition of ambidexterity in How To Think Leonardo Like da Vinci. JH]
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
RTA has decided to cut the services to the most transit-dependent. Not enough money, they say. Can”t you just accept that? What are you crying about?
You know things are tight.
Our leaders, however, found $168-million – so far – for “needs” that aren”t so crucial.
Well, we all know our values and priorities are all screwed up, don”t we?
Our leaders – private and public – raised the money with regressive taxes that weigh most heavily on whom – the very individuals who qualify as transit-dependent. Did you expect better over the years from the likes of Mike White, Tim Hagan, Jimmy Dimora, George Forbes and George Voinovich?
There are no taxes left for you people who can”t afford to buy and run an automobile. Geez we can”t do everything. Continue Reading »
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Comments Made in the Year 1955 (the year I was born).
I’m afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
These writers may have been using a womb-like sensory deprivation to induce literary vision… (T) p. 260
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
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