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| The Cross |
Thursday August 01, 2024
To quietly walk
to the cross by the shire,
to stop, and to pray.
Norman Davies rightly calls
precious Poland "God's Playground."
Friday August 02, 2024
He looked at himself
in the mirror and knew he
became what he is.
The poetry means nothing
without private sacrifice.
Saturday August 03, 2024
The Thesis does not
have an anti-thesis in
this ontic instance.
The exception here is clear:
ontological silence.
Sunday August 04, 2024
The Rosary is
The Roman Breviary for
those that are like him.
These unprecedented times
mean unprecedented means.
Monday August 05, 2024
The two common names
continue to signify
in uncommon ways.
Worldly distraction attempts
to prevent its reception.
Tuesday August 06, 2024
There are two summas
that sum up everything he
needs to know for now.
As a reader he longs to
end the way the writer did.
Wednesday August 07, 2024
The faster one fasts
the faster’s fast, the worse the
fast of fasting is.
If it is only about
health, then you’re wasting your time.
Thursday August 08, 2024
Catholicism
permits praying to the saint
you are studying.
All of the Aristotle
permits praying to the saint
you are studying.
All of the Aristotle
he needs is in Aquinas.
Friday August 09, 2024
The one thing that he
does three times a day is what
he was born to do.
He does not do anything
better, nor will he ever.
Saturday August 10, 2024
Who can deny that
modernity has been a
complete disaster?
"Heresy of heresies"
is one way to describe it.
Sunday August 11, 2024
Not throwing your pearls
toward swine is required
now more than ever.
The most precious things must still
be willed into secrecy.
Monday August 12, 2024
Someone recently
said “Everyone is falling
apart” (so it seems).
You do not argue with death,
you only prepare for it.
Tuesday August 13, 2024
Her wallpaper brings
everything inside of him
back to life again.
It does not take very much
to spark his burning embers.
Wednesday August 14, 2024
His mother thinks she
is so very beautiful
(she saw her picture).
From one beautiful woman
to another: "I see her."
to another: "I see her."
Thursday August 15, 2024
If he arises
early enough, completing
it will be easy.
This will allow him to see
the bark on the garden's tree.
Friday August 16, 2024
He was sadly told
he was too old to become
a Carthusian.
Thankfully, he has found his
own way to sigh in silence.
Saturday August 17, 2024
Saying No to NO
is getting easier now
that things are so bad.
They are not even hiding
in plain sight (as they once did).
Sunday August 18, 2024
He was told to keep
his books just in case the world
suddenly turns off.
Not a problem: he has read
enough to last a lifetime.
Monday August 19, 2024
It takes one hour
to drive there, and one hour
to drive back again.
Two hours in thick traffic
is quite a small price to pay.
Tuesday August 20, 2024
His day consists in
reading, writing, and praying,
from dawn until dusk.
This is the main reason why
he lives the way that he does.
Wednesday August 21, 2024
There was a dragon
that lived there during the time
that he worked with them.
It left its mark on his head,
but did not enter his heart.
Thursday August 22, 2024
What would be the point
of having them continue
to occupy space?
His love of the nostalgic
can get the better of him.
Friday August 23, 2024
That the world will shut
off and turn on again is
inevitable.
For him the greatest reset
would be to leave it alone.
Saturday August 24, 2024
His very early
anarchism prepared him
for totalism.
In the end this is nothing
but traditional being.
Sunday August 25, 2024
The outcome will not
have a direct influence
on his life and times.
This is why he remains so
colossally indifferent.
Monday August 26, 2024
"Happy Birthday E🌸"
(says he so silently far
away, yet so near).
There are many if any
ways to celebrate each year.
Tuesday August 27, 2024
He wonders whether
systematizing has been
counterproductive.
It could be interpreted
as making up for lost time.
Wednesday August 28, 2024
“Unless the grounding
ground grounds you to the grounded
ground, you are groundless.”
Language truly is the house
of being and becoming.
Thursday August 29, 2024
It only took six
quick months for the reluctant
wanderlust to move.
At least he lived in style
before crossing the Nile.
Friday August 30, 2024
He was once love sick
at the lake that bears its name
(the picture proves it).
A copy of it remains
in the room that fans the flame.
Saturday August 31, 2024
When the fool says in
his heart “There is no God” what
is the foolishness?
It consists in thinking that
God can be predicated.
