Browsing Category: Quick Thought

POSSIBILITY

        “Do you believe opportunities we are meant to live are ever truly lost?  Does opportunity die, or only change?  If we change our eyes with new perceptions, do possibilities reappear.  In different time, condition, and space, does the opportunity remain if we will ourselves to act?          How many times do we talk ourselves […]

STOBROD

     “To Ada, though it seemed akin to miracle that Stobrod, of all people, should offer himself up as proof positive that no matter what a waste one has made of one’s life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.”—Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain           I never thought Stobrod would be […]

LETTER TO A FRIEND

          I returned to “Life is a Miracle” today, Berry’s explanation of art and how it is not valuable in what it might be reduced and explained to be, but for how it exists and what it tells by the form in which it appears, the story told, the perception shared; how art and science […]

THE HOPEFUL MAN

“…it is at the hopeless moment that we require the hopeful man, and the virtue either does not exist at all, or begins to exist at that moment.  Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.”—G. K. Chesterton, Heretics                 If Good, we deserve to find what we […]

WASTED TIME

                I like beginning my days writing.  I enjoy ending them the same.  Maybe it is wasted time, but if there is something small and simple that gives joy and draws expressions of good, why should we be deterred?  Writing, however plain and simple its creation, brings me joy and adds brightness to my day.  […]

NEVER A KING

                I believe I can build a community.  I believe, listening and being engaged with the signs that show, that I can grow relationships and foster a community of minds that feed and enrich one another.  When we put something out there and witness a response, I believe it is because there is something in […]

JUNE 7, 2020: A MESSAGE

                I believe in Divine Providence.  I believe the influence, effect, and messaging of God within our world is real even when we sometimes misconstrue the meaning—something inevitable given the imperfect state in which we all, as humans, exist.  I have witnessed and felt in my soul too many times messages in the Catholic Missal […]

A BEGINNING

                “Doesn’t it feel good to express how special someone is to you?  No hiding, no pretensions, just leave it there for what it is?  Maybe it raises another up.  Maybe it’s dismissed, but either way, don’t we feel better for having said it?  Doesn’t the world seem better when we share the kinder spirits […]