I found this subject hilarious because I was looking at previous subjects and this has been a topic of conversation for me and my friends today. I make fun of my sister QUITE A BIT for her (over)use of a couple words, mainly that she and her perfectly nice boyfriend CONSTANTLY call each other darling and she refers to almost everything he does as ( Read more... )

( some thoughts on a passage of Confessions )

Though I promised earlier to discuss Spe Salvi, I wasn't really planning on writing too much today/tonight because I was feeling very reflective, but then I tried to go to bed, was tossing and turning, and then decided to finish the Augustine biography I began over Thanksgiving break ( Read more... )

I promised I would talk about snowflakes, and then I also have a fairly good story about my evening to share, but snowflakes first ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention this, but this weekend I was thinking about what it means to be an adult, both in my everyday life and in my spiritual life.  I have had this tendency to shy away from accepting the responsibility of being an adult, and I hadn't really thought about why.  I know I ranted about this last year, how frustrating it was to be in a ( Read more... )

I was indulging my love of all things iTunes by looking at new celebrity playlists, and for The Darjeeling Limited, Jason Schwartzman mentions Weezer's Tired of Sex as one of his songs and I was immediately kicked back to freshman year when my roommate introduced me to Weezer and I listened to it all the time. She, Dashboard, Weezer, and ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about this topic fairly frequently because of the book I've been reading, which discussed how visual representations of dining were interpreted by contemporaries (assuming we can get inside the heads of Romans like that) and thus whether the paintings portray real life, values held, values claimed, etc. And then yesterday I was ( Read more... )