insight

The glory of God is in man fully alive.

- Irenaeus of lyons

incidental aging as a way of knowing

"People don’t talk about it, because it’s embarrassing. They’re having sheer terror, like their worst nightmare."

manuel n. pacheco - md

said philosophical investigator

O oil-covered film-going pelicans!

count your pennies

The ideas of economists and political philosophers . . .(be they correct or incorrect)...
are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled
by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite
exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of
some defunct economist.

-John Maynard Keynes

mercy

there are places in the heart
that do not yet exist
suffering enters in
so that they might have
existence

- leon bloy +1917

i heard this during a conference
for our yearly retreat