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 (Now that we're entering that time of year when many of us will take some sort of vacation, here are some tips we post almost every year.


...here some thoughts about the kind of recreation that made this particular vacation so special. We start with a preface about "vacation" in the busy, pressurized, high-tech world so many of us work in these ...

Continuing from last week's thoughts to another thought about our Blessed Mother on this 3rd Sunday after Pentecost.

The focus now shifts to our dependence on her. Father Leen goes so far as to compare it to the dependence of the unborn child on its mother. And, as you know, that's complete, total dependence. And so Father says is our own dependence on Mary, our ...

Picking up from our last post, we wonder whether we can find moments of creative inspiration in the midst of our ordinary work flow. This all comes from our consideration of the work of the artist, and the role creativity plays in that work. 

We already recognized that at first blush it doesn't seem that creative inspiration would be native to just regular old w...

Can we ordinary working stiffs learn anything practical from the creative work of an artist? The question arose as we sorted through the work of artists and craftsmen in our recent posts. What craftsman do was deemed a practical source of ideas we could apply to our own work, whatever it is. But what about what the creative part of what artists do?

Now, we did point out...

It's the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost and we'll turn our thoughts to Our Blessed Mother again, as we did last Sunday. It's also the Feast of Corpus Christi in most dioceses, even though Corpus Christi has traditionally been celebrated on Thursday. (Sort of reminds us of Ascension Thursday being "transferred" to Sunday, doesn't it?).

In any event, it's Sunday, a perfect ti...