Wednesday, 1 June 2022

June 2022

A friend in need...















Wednesday June 01, 2022
McBrien's big book
proved decisively that he 
can read only so
much on a daily basis. 
What’s in place now is enough.

Thursday June 02, 2022
Those who do not know
the inner truth and greatness
show their ignorance
through petty criticism.
They lack The Will To Power.

Friday June 03, 2022
His sweets for the sweet
were so appreciated.
This was no surprise,
especially given the
intimate secrets they shared. 

Saturday June 04, 2022
Creating their own
secret society seems
to be the only
way to continue breathing
as easily as they do. 

Sunday June 05, 2022
Now it’s a matter 
of slowly settling in 
and figuring out 
how the personal details 
fall seamlessly into place. 

Monday June 06, 2022
Ave Maria 
was devotionally prayed
during the last time 
he visited her roommate. 
The Sisterhood cares for them.  

Tuesday June 07, 2022
This Being-in is 
so fundamental, and yet 
it gets confronted
in terms of what it is not. 
Yes, this is as it should be. 

Wednesday June 08, 2022
The Teutonic truth
has blossomed into an all
consuming passion
that covers a multitude
of multicultural sins. 

Thursday June 09, 2022
And then there are days
when the memory of not
having to concern
himself with how to provide
proves to be proverbial. 

Friday June 10, 2022
It gets to the point 
where the only remedy 
for the exhaustion 
of social interaction 
is to stay within the cell.  

Saturday June 11, 2022
She wore the black veil
so respectfully and true.
Who would not be moved
by such feminine virtue?
The allure of tradition.

Sunday June 12, 2022
The field hospital 
is available for those 
who'd die without it.
For the rest, they could care less.
It's not their sine qua non

Monday June 13, 2022
Waxing poetic
about it was his daily
bread and butter, but
now the narrative is not.
Variation on a dream. 

Tuesday June 14, 2022
His analysis 
made it possible to earn 
his bread and butter
within the financial world. 
GITA is all that is left.

Wednesday June 15, 2022
He's being haunted
by the ghost of silence past. 
It's as spooky as
"Spooky Mulder" was to his
fellow FBI colleagues.

Thursday June 16, 2022
People come and go. 
You never know when they start. 
It is what it is. 
And you don't know when they end,
and then it was what it was.  

Friday June 17, 2022
Men Without Women 
was Ernest Hemingway’s way 
of continuing 
to create language that is
seared to the narrative bone. 

Saturday June 18, 2022
Intimidation
can act as a deterrent
for those too weak to
affirm their own existence.
It keeps them from being true. 

Sunday June 19, 2022
History repeats
itself over and over 
again when it comes
to this particular pact. 
Past acts must be avoided. 

Monday June 20, 2022
Retreat and retrieve 
the gnostic secret before 
the PWs 
do their best to falsify 
the best of our intentions.

Tuesday June 21, 2022
No news is bad news?
Since it has been so long since
he has heard from him,
he is hoping it is not. 
He knows how bad it can get. 

Wednesday June 22, 2022
Heidegger between
Nazism and his own
Catholicism:
his Nietzsche was his way to
go Beyond Good And Evil.

Thursday June 23, 2022
Reasons for reading 
are now fewer in number.
In fact, the only 
one that is worth mentioning 
relates to Rembrandt’s painting.  

Friday June 24, 2022
He took a good look 
at himself and understood
there’s no possible 
way it was ever going 
to happen to him again.  

Saturday June 25, 2022
He realizes
that silence is being used 
to communicate 
that communication is
something no longer wanted. 

Sunday June 26, 2022
The Order is clear: 
he participated in  
the marriage system, 
but was never a part of 
the sacrament of marriage.  

Monday June 27, 2022
To pray for fourteen
years without ceasing to rid
oneself of anger
is to apply Ephesians
chapter four verse twenty six. 

Tuesday June 28, 2022
The most virtuous
monks are those intimately
tried by temptations.
The measure of their manner
is measured by their manners. 

Wednesday June 29, 2022
His philology, 
coupled with his polity 
and philosophy, 
contributed toward his  
own inner truth and greatness.  

Thursday June 30, 2022
All theology 
has lovingly led him to  
the Venerable 
Maria de Ágreda’s
Mystical City of God.