Awakening is this weekend Many people have worked really hard to make this retreat possible and it will be nice to see the fruit of the labor. Afterwards, my free time will increase quite a bit and hopefully I can get on a more regular cycle of updates. I’ve been saying that for some time though so we’ll see. I have a todo list the length of my arm so it might be just a fancy thought.

I wrote an e-mail to Shannon today regarding various things. Below is a short excerpt that I enjoyed writing:
“Tonight, perhaps we could read for our Jesus class and make sure we all understand it. I’ll push that to the last of the reading I do today. I have a couple of papers and a few hundred of various texts to read. Yay Philosophy!
“O Philosophy how do I adore you?
I adore the lover of Wisdom.
From where shall I run to?
For the Wisdom follows all men.
“Okay, a little verse of complete crap. It’s okay. Wisdom follows all men because it likes picking on us and being like ‘I straight up did told you that you best not be trying to trip on that girl when she’s trying to buy a sandwich. You know she ain’t like that. You know this baby!’
“Okay… okay… nothing shall come from nothing; try again….”

“It is not that Catholicism has been tried and found wanting. It is that it has been found difficult and left untried.” – G. K. Chesterton

“The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.” — Chesterston’s Orthodoxy

Just a quick post to invite anyone who has not been on an Awakening retreat to check out Longhorn Awakening #36. The retreat will be February 13-15 just a little ways north of Austin. There will be signups and people to answer questions after all the Masses on Sunday at the Catholic Center.