A Commonplace Book by Joshua Lore

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10
Nov

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A little quote for the day, by the lovely and incomparable Dorothy Sayers: “The people who hanged Christ never, to
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09
Nov

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Early Plum Blossoms, by Nishimura Goun.
09
Nov

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Kawah Ijen volcano in Indonesia erupts molten sulphur instead of lava, and it burns electric blue. (Aerial photo cred. Olivier
08
Nov

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Today is the birthday of Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. “Whatever I had read as a child
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06
Nov

Girard: Islamic Extremism is Symmetrically Related to Western Wealth

Including this diamond: “René Girard explains how this realization in forgiveness (that people are more like “sinners” than they would
06
Nov

René Girard on the Puritanism of Meaning

I’ve been rereading some of Girard’s challenging and thoughtful writing in the wake of his passing, and found
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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
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