Currently Reading Orthodoxy By G. K. Chesterton Ahhh… Back to my reading list. I’ve barely got through the introduction and I’m already wishing to quote large chunks of this fellow. He makes me laugh, and I like his analogies. He reads rather like a blogger, which should be no surprise since he was a journalist Continue reading →
Untangling Tales is about making sense of things. So much of life plain. doesn’t. make. sense. But good stories do. I’ve always considered logic a nice break from the real world. I suppose I’m the type that will take whatever I can get, but even life makes sense sometimes, if you look for it, and Continue reading →
Courage is a virtue recognized in every culture. Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at its testing point, which means at its point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. –C.S. Continue reading →
In contrast to the popular saying, Money can’t buy happiness there is this study that shows a fairly tight correlation between money and a lot of good things. (Here’s another eye-opening view, if you go in prepared for anger and crass language.) I liked reading about this study when it came out, because I’d always Continue reading →
G.K. Chesterton, in his book Orthodoxy, pointed out that sometimes the reason we don’t know where to start talking about a big subject is because it possible to start anywhere. Sticking to a healthy lifestyle appears to be one of those topics. Leaving aside what a Healthy Eating Plan looks like (for now), I want Continue reading →
I’ve been (re) reading the bit in Chesterton’s Orthodoxy about the logic of Elfland, and how the wonder that exists in that story-world is to remind us of the wonder we forget of our own world. And I’m filled with this surge of remembering. Of my capacity for wonder and delight. Then just as quickly Continue reading →
On one level I think it is a very good thing. How many tragic (powerful, often, but tragic) stories unfold primarily from the foolishness of hubris? The idea that everything needed is already within. Including wisdom. How much grief could be avoided by following good advice? One of my favorite lines is the one that Continue reading →
Life itself is a series of problems that often act as obstacles to our search for significance… Our fulfillment in this life depends not on our skills to avoid life’s problems, but on our ability to apply God’s specific solutions to those problems. Robert S. McGee in The Search for Significance There is a complicated Continue reading →
Have you ever thought about how, technically, people at the same level as you are not qualified to give you advice? Take parenting, for example. I’ve offered quite a bit of random advice here, all written down because I expect it to be useful (to someone… sometime… somewhere…) but if you were looking for real Continue reading →
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. The general fact is simple. Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion… To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything is Continue reading →