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| Pater Familias |
Wednesday March 01, 2023
How shall he live now?
No confidence can be placed
in expectations.
He must control the thunder
as he consoles his hunger.
No confidence can be placed
in expectations.
He must control the thunder
as he consoles his hunger.
Thursday March 02, 2023
Sit in submission.
Live as pure as possible.
Always be thankful.
This is how he practices
his senseless austerity.
Friday March 03, 2023
He keeps his heart safe
by hearing what it whispers.
And it says nothing
(out of the ordinary).
He’s a fool not to trust it.
Saturday March 04, 2023
Αριστοτέλης:
love the being of beings
with your heart, soul, mind,
and strength, while loving other
beings as your own being.
Sunday March 05, 2023
Learning His grammar
prevents him from becoming
lost in translation.
But loving Her grandeur is
the only way to be found.
Monday March 06, 2023
Für Herr Heidegger:
“the inner truth and greatness”
is not what you think.
Rather, it is what unites
Edith Stein with Wittgenstein.
Tuesday March 07, 2023
Writing his 和歌
is the only way to show
everything, without
saying anything at all
(the path of non-assertion).
Wednesday March 08, 2023
There is nothing left
for the old Zen man to do.
He sits, stares, and breathes.
He sits, stares, and breathes.
Maybe enlightenment is
a form of retirement.
Thursday March 09, 2023
If the Grundlagen
incident precludes him from
being considered
for professorial work,
the reader in him remains.
Friday March 10, 2023
Sum of the Summa:
it contains everything one
needs to know about
what it means for Thomists to
practice the presence of God.
Saturday March 11, 2023
Dearest Rumi knew
the mystical mystery:
“If you want to know
how Christ was raised from the dead,
then gently kiss me...like this."
Sunday March 12, 2023
Her beautiful namE
means fighting for happiness.
She fought very hard
to get her pearl of great price.
They are happy together.
Monday March 13, 2023
Gesticulating
with words: here is where He wants
him to be, to do,
and then to review, renew,
and pursue his four-fold vow.
Tuesday March 14, 2023
What if all he was
able to use to convey
his experience
was five lines of poetry
with thirty-one syllables?
Wednesday March 15, 2023
Reductionism:
Oratio, Scripturae,
and Traditio
(ROsaRY, Douay-Rheims, and
Grammatical Thomism).
Thursday March 16, 2023
He listens to Gould
while reading Aristotle.
There are a few things
in his life that will never
get old: this is one of them.
Friday March 17, 2023
His ancient Irish
ancestors hail from Cork in
southern Ireland.
Despite their location, they
too have endured their troubles.
Saturday March 18, 2023
The merciless snow
covered Huike to his waist.
He shed frozen tears
of joy: he wasn't sorry
for disarming satori.
Sunday March 19, 2023
Two books were published
in eighteen seventy-nine
that have stood the test
of time: Frege’s Begriffsschrift,
and the Aeterni Patris.
Monday March 20, 2023
“Therefore, it is not
a practical science but
a speculative
science” (according to the
“dumb ox” from Roccasecca).
Tuesday March 21, 2023
He plans, and yet God
demands that His will be done
on earth and elsewhere.
The Yiddish version of this
is better: Man Plans | God Laughs.
Wednesday March 22, 2023
“When a hot woman
meets a hermit, one of them
is going to change”
(so writes Charles Bukowski).
Wise words from a wild man.
Thursday March 23, 2023
If he could he would
never stop asking her: How
wet is the water?
This way he could step into
the same river more than once.
Friday March 24, 2023
Romance is a young
man’s game | Reclusivity
is an old man’s gain:
plus ça change, plus c'est la même
chose (we all remember Neil).
Saturday March 25, 2023
His socializing
consists in interacting
with the various
NPCs in Fallout 3,
the best game in the franchise.
Sunday March 26, 2023
After finishing
his PhD he began
to understand just
how little he accomplished,
relative to the effort.
Monday March 27, 2023
The penultimate
Puritan that was within
him has been replaced
by the last Iconoclast.
God took him: he is no more.
Tuesday March 28, 2023
The only current
thing in his life is the pair
of currencies he
trades on a daily basis:
the USD/JPY.
Wednesday March 29, 2023
He has rejected
emotional dependence
on any person,
any place, or anything
that keeps him from her shire.
Thursday March 30, 2023
The plain purity
of poetry protects him
from the pernicious
pain of passive aggressive
maliciousness and fury.
Friday March 31, 2023
Trust and suicide
provide the reasons why he
mournfully chose to
continue his life as a
patriarchal anchorite.
