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The scientific name for an animal that doesn’t either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
– Michael Friedman

When you are pregnant with a child … the endpoint of that is delivery of that child into the world. The Word of God terms that event as “Travail”, we call it “Labor”- means the same thing. A woman does a job that requires an unknown amount of her resources to accomplish. For some the [...]

Remarking about the print magazine/newspaper debacle as it tries to face the reality of online journalism, WSJ says:
For years, publishers and editors have asked the wrong question: Will people pay to access my newspaper content on the Web? The right question is: What kind of journalism can my staff produce that is different and valuable [...]

My mother’s sons were angry with me and made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I have neglected.
Much of my life has been involved with being a “hired hand”. Working in other’s vineyards to help them accomplish what they planned, their goals, their dreams, and building in their life. Somehow I believed [...]

I didn’t vote for Obama- I’m going to be upfront on that, but this trend:“The populist anger at the executives who ran their firms into the ground is increasingly blowing back on Obama” is not just politics. It is about preservation of the USA. All of us. Our economic health is not partisan and it [...]

In the last post the lack of willingness to pray was addressed. In this, an acknowledgment of the obstructions to prayer.
The act of prayer is the exercise of the spiritual life, or the “man of the spirit”. Once we are children of God it would seem that praying would come easy, but what is it [...]

I don’t mean when we need help in crisis or the “Thank God” when we avert one, but the discipline of prayer that we are called to do as disciples in relationship with Our Lord, and as co-laborers in His harvest. It must be hard because it is quite a feat to persuade people to [...]

Again. This time I am going to change my theme into one that I hope to be able to use long term. The reason to alert readers is because it looks like things will be disrupted a bit and it might look strange for the time it takes me to iron things out. I [...]

Pied Beauty
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
GLORY be to God for dappled things,
For skies of couple-color as a brindled cow,
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls, finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced, fold, fallow and plough,
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange,
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With [...]

The Bat
by Jane Kenyon
I was reading about rationalism,
the kind of thing we do up north
in early winter, where the sun
leaves work for the day at 4:15
Maybe the world is intelligible
to the rational mind;
and maybe we light the lamps at dusk
for nothing…
Then I heard the wings overhead.
The cats and I chased the bat
in circles—living room, kitchen,
pantry, [...]

“General Motors is a metaphor for the United States.” ~Ray Dalio
via the Doc

Back in March 2004 I wrote this when TrueGrit was not at this web address. I was just starting to blog, but I reread it and thought it is still something to think about. The original title was ” Another Question/Would I make a good world?” and the original “Theophilus post” url is lost to [...]

Things that my husband and I are talking about:
Just a token article about a growing phenomenon, Growing gun buying, widening ammo shortage, there is huge backlog of demand for ammunition right now. This is another one of those background areas that thinking people need to pay attention to. I don’t believe this is just a [...]