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June 29, 2006
A little amateur data-mining consumption as to literature. And movies. We were only semi-impressed. Tampopo didn't turn up much. A Fish Called Wanda, on the other hand....
Approved pre-holiday-weekend time-wasting via Marginal Revolution
June 28, 2006
Maxed Out Mama eavesdrops on European and other perplexity and revulsion that Americans, "fat, overpaid, self-important morons" that we are, especially those of us who staff or patronize travesties like Starbuck's, are so darned nice.
Not to worry. They figured it out. We have to be nice: we carry guns.
Bang-on. Or Spot-on. Or What Ever....
Or, to shift the burden of going forward, Why isn't everyone?
June 26, 2006
Tom over at Disputations spends a series of posts on the lively question of Justice. Whether or not one follows all the twists and turns of his considerations, the Thomist definition of the 'virtue of justice as "the moral virtue that consists in the constant and firm will to give their due to God and neighbor" ' introduces a worthwhile focus. Not only the will to give others their due, loving to do so.
Who can I more completely "give his due" where I haven't yet, in thinking, speaking, or taking action?
The brilliant Richard Grant, MBTI guru, maintains that Justice is the virtue which preoccupies "NT"s. Could be right. :-)
Photon Courier is another of those blogs, emphasis on business, energy, and the passing scene, that slips under the radar, but appeared again when via a good-sense comment from the blogger on Assistant Village Idiot. So we followed him home.
David writes about the Wall Street Journal's report on "the panicky classes," that is, parents over-obsessed with children's performance in school and counter-productive pressure on their children.
One Manhattan tutor reflects on the consequences of the high-pressure efforts to get into a "top college." He sees a distressing number of children who are "completely burnt out and won't accomplish anything in college because they were driven through high school the way an associate is driven through a law firm."
When Sr. Dilys ran his first marathon, he returned frustrated and disappointed because he had gone flat-out too early. He soon adjusted that impulse. Unfortunately, the trajectory of childhood cannot be re-run.
On the other hand, David's friend Ginny does the circle tour of junior or community college experience, and second and third chances.
June 25, 2006
Sr. Dilys agrees. Don't miss Andy Garcia's semi-biographical movie about his family in Havana, The Lost City. Beautiful, well-made, romantic, grown-up, inspiring, and heartbreaking, like life.
Don't wait for DVD! And it may not stay long, especially in "Blue" demographic centers.
Just go.
June 24, 2006
Austin American Statesman photographs (here by Rodolfo Gonzalez)
are consistently remarkable. This one has been color-and-texture-adjusted
afterwards in the computer by the in-house digital Art-Co for licensed private use; but the perspective, composition, and eloquently evocative subject matter were there from the beginning.
So much good work Adding Value everywhere, serving everyone!
Above all, we must not wish to cling to our suffering.
Continue reading "“We must not desire to become a deeper self than God wills”" »
June 21, 2006
Sharing good things. Another feature of the Value-Added Life.
