Stay Out of My Trash Cans!

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:



The things people discard tell more about them than the things they keep.

— Hilda Lawrence

Equality Before the Law(yers?)

Today’s AWAD X-bonus:

We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to apply it.
-Stanislaw J. Lec, poet and aphorist (1909-1966)

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Now playing: Pat Benatar - Temporary Heroes
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Some Circumstances Never Change

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:



I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

— Martha Washington

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Now playing: Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Christmas Song
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Teach Your Children Well

The quote on The Literacy Site today:

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

-John W Whitehead

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Now playing: Voices of Ascension - Missa Papae Marcelli - Kyrie eleison
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Going Up

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

It is your arms, Jesus, which are the elevator to carry me to heaven.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Now playing: G. Palestrina - Lamentation 2
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Silence

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

Silence does good to the soul.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Travel Instructions

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their (sic) destination.

-John Schaar

Your Part

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

-The Talmud

Who Died and Made Me????? God?

Our parish mission is this week, and Fr Gavin Griffith, who’s leading it, said the Masses this weekend. His sermon touched on several things, including his two favorite prayers, the Serenity Prayer and Fr Mychal Judge's prayer.

Father Mychal's Prayer:

Lord, take me where You want me to go;
Let me meet who You want me to meet;
Tell me what You want me to say
And keep me out of Your way.

Love Is Everything

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

Jesus does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, or even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

Dad Would Agree Wholeheartedly

The quote on The Literacy Site today:

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

-Emilie Buchwald


Actually, I think he’d say (were he inclined toward such slang) “Duh!!!”

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Mañana, mañana

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:




Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
— Spanish Proverb

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Hope in Winter

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:



In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

— Albert Camus

Camus came up Sunday: on the way to the Rite of Election at St Benedict in Hollister, I popped Neil Diamond’s Hot August Night in the CD player; Done Too Soon is the third track.

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Now playing: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers - O Come, Emmanuel
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True Love

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

The meaning of love is to sacrifice yourself.
-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Little Things

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

When I feel nothing, when I am incapable of praying or practicing virtue, then is the moment to look for small occasions, nothings that give Jesus pleasure… a smile or a friendly word, when I would much prefer to say nothing at all.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Now playing: Herbie Hancock - I Had a King
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A Different Perspective on Listening

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.

-Rachel Naomi Remen

Joy

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

Joy isn’t found in the material objects surrounding us, but in the inner recesses of the soul. One can possess joy in a prison cell as well as in a palace.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Things In Perspective

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

To remain a child before God means to recognize our nothingness, to expect everything from God. It is not to become discouraged over our failings, for children fall often, but they are too little to hurt themselves very much.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

Silence Is as Much a Part of Life as Sound

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.

-Blessed Mother Teresa

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Listening to: Nordic Chamber Choir - O Magnum Mysterium (1994)
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One’s Own

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

“I do not concern myself about what God might be asking of others. Whatever God asks of me always makes me happy.”

-St. Therese of Lisieux