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Better sense of history: Billy Zoom’s list of required listening
Editor’s Note: Though Christmas is over and Santa is, no doubt, resting and preparing for next year, this list might make for a good goal for the coming year…to listen to history or build up your personal collection. Thunderstruck | Repost | – Billy Zoom, guitarist from X (According to Billy, this is only a partial… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~James “Gentleman Jim” Corbett
“Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you… Continue reading
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Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?
During the making of the animated Christmas classic A Charlie Brown Christmas, Peanuts creator Charles Schulz had a meeting with Lee Mendelson, the show’s producer, and Bill Melendez, its lead animator. The discussion concerned Schulz’s insistence about including a New Testament scripture reading of the Christmas story from the Bible. The scripture reading was to… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Saint Ignatius
“Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.” ~Saint Ignatius Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Abraham Lincoln
“And having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.” ~Abraham Lincoln Continue reading
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The Man In The Arena ~Theodore Roosevelt
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Victor Hugo
“People do not lack strength; they lack will.” ~Victor Hugo Continue reading
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How a skull on your desk will change your life
By Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble The practice of remembering that you will die helps you to keep in mind that your life will end, and that it has a goal: heaven. Visual reminders — often called memento mori, the Latin phrase for “Remember that you will die” — are one way we can keep our… Continue reading
Chase The Kangaroo 