Monthly Archives: April 2003

“The fly that touches honey cannot use its wings; so the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins its freedom and hinders contemplation.” – St. John of the Cross – This is just what I needed to read (which in … Continue reading →

Being asked to speak to a group of married couples about marriage on Saturday night: GOODHaving to write a talk about marriage on Friday night to give to a group of married couples for Saturday Night: NOT GOODArriving and realizing … Continue reading →

Here are three small poems worth mulling over. Would have been more appropriate to post these during lent. I just post them as they are sent to me. When the mind is attractedTo anything it senses,You are bound. Where there … Continue reading →

I generally don’t like to do “look what I found in my referrer logs” posts, but sometimes I find stuff that’s too good not to mention. There was one google hit on my page from someone searching for “Heidi Cody” … Continue reading →

Happy DNA day! I was listening to the DNA day story on NPR just as I was trimming my beard, so my thoughts turned to hair and heredity. My beard is just like my hair has always been. It has … Continue reading →

A discussion in some comments below made me think: What do Karma, Zen, and Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle have in common? They’re all concepts that, since they have been popularized into common usage, are usually inaccurately applied. Take Karma, for instance. … Continue reading →

You go for several minutes where all the nouns, aside from the occasional pronoun, are acronyms.

This is some very funny terrorism advice. From a local Houston group.

Wendell Berry captures my current mood of ambivalence, ambiguity, and equivocation in three little gems: About the tension between public and private personas… A Warning To My Readers Please do not think me gentlebecause I speak in praise of gentleness, … Continue reading →

So I’m already in a bad mood. Seeing as how this creeping crud in my chest has not let me draw a good breath in several days and I still have this earache and headache and it’s really cramping my … Continue reading →

As I sat at dinner last night my line of sight was directly on this older couple in the booth by our table. They must have been in their eighties. Her hands were palsied as she poked at her salad. … Continue reading →

I had this weird experience in Church last night. You ever get that kind of odd feeling when you’re listening to someone talk and you suddenly notice their makeup? Or their hair? And you have this totally absurd feeling and … Continue reading →

It was a good Easter weekend. Spent all weekend in the Texas Hill Country on the Frio river. A lot of it sitting in one of those folding armchairs with my legs dangling into the cold, fast-running water while watching … Continue reading →

I know it’s early, cause it’s only Holy Thursday, and we have the contemplation of passion and death and sacrifice yet to come. But I’m about to venture to the Texas Hill Country to spend Easter with family and friends … Continue reading →

And after that self-serving post, I give you a page of good varietal poetry to read.