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A Commonplace Book by Joshua Lore

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05
Nov

The Odyssey: Homer's Retort to Current U.S. Policy - Image Journal

‘Fitzgerald’s Iliad and Odyssey are also on my shelf. With warring so much the rage these days, you’d think I’d turn next to The Iliad. But instead it’s The Odyssey that I reached for—since it’s about how we should live instead of how we do.

Restoration is The Odyssey‘s theme. Though the title word has come to mean adventurous wandering, the poem’s whole thrust is really toward restoring Odysseus to his rightful place at home.’

The Odyssey: Homer's Retort to Current U.S. Policy - Image Journal

03
Nov

Real Love Is a Choice | Seth Adam Smith

I don’t often share links like this, but apropos some deeply good conversations I have had in the last
03
Nov

Pope Francis on the Sacramental of Place

“The entire material universe speaks of God’s love, his boundless affection for us. Soil, water, mountains: everything is, as
03
Nov

Dropbox - Wendell Berry on War and Peace Or Port William Versus the Empire.mp3

A pleasant dose of Berry for the day Dropbox - Wendell Berry on War and Peace Or Port William Versus the
01
Nov

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‘Lex Amoris’, by Denis Sarazhin
01
Nov

A Patience With Your Own Crap: Philip Roth on Writing

Remnick:—What did experience give you? Roth: Patience. That is, the patience to outlast your frustration. The confidence that if
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28
Oct

Prayer and the Benedictine Life - A Time to Keep Silence

Patrick Leigh Fermor on prayer and the Benedictine life at the Abbey St. Wandrille: “The dominating factor of monastic existence
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27
Oct

Thomas Merton on The World

One of Thomas Merton’s continual but fruitful struggles was with how to approach, understand, and relate to, “world”. It’
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25
Oct

Confessions of an Israeli traitor - The Washington Post

This is an important and unsettling piece Confessions of an Israeli traitor - The Washington Post
25
Oct

A Lesson for Netanyahu From a Real Holocaust Historian | Foreign Policy

“Bibi’s self-serving, Palestinian-blaming version of Nazi history is just plain wrong, writes Christopher R. Browning.” A Lesson