blame the WASP work ethic

Leisure supports work instead of the other way around.
The whole thing is,
 as one might say here in Texas, bass ackwards.
How we recover an authentic sense of leisure when
 we live in a time of "total work" without reference to God
 is one of the challenges of our time.










                                               Andrew M. Greenwell














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on the hind end of a sky blue and pink bus

found poem #7,988










          u N      T
      F                 i
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      ICE CREAM


           caution
          stop   for
          children




CHILDREN CROSSING   










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multi-colored universal catholicism...to the god of leisure

In the offering of a libation to the gods,
 one is to pour a little of the wine on the ground,
 to waste it,  to show that not everything is necessary.
From the point of view of God’s creation,
He did not “need” to create.
In a paradoxical sense,  He wasted His time
 tossing us out there to see what we might do.
 In the end,
He seems simply to have wanted us
 to “waste” our time with Him for eternity.
I will buy that thesis!






                                        James V. Schall  SJ


























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blessed are the....

You must speak to Jesus, not only with your lips,

 but also with your heart;

 actually, on certain occasions,

 you should speak with only your heart.

                               — St. Padre Pio

and take heed

I've noticed that everyone
 who is for abortion 
has already been born



        ronald reagan  ( yep that RR )




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...

woven in sinew and thought through time

Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum,
which includes all men
from the beginning of the world to its end.
  He is not the president of a special-interest club.








                                                       Eric Voegelin












...

and the birth of modern conservative thought

The writers against religion,
 whilst they oppose every system,
are wisely careful never to set up any of their own






 (Edmund Burke)


















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