Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Showing posts with label memoir. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memoir. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

A story



that makes me impatient for the book to be completed and published.

Tears I Don’t Have Anymore

We have some very concerned and committed youth, today, and yet, in today's money-grubbing culture, I can see a holocaust happening again. Not to the Jews perhaps, but a holocaust none-the-less, and it makes me frightened. What is the worth of a human life? We really haven't learned any lessons. We must always remember.


Tuesday, March 27, 2012

A moment of grace

delivered by an unexpected angel...

The Billboard of the Body


"What do you do when you have sucker written all over your forehead?"
Or a bruise on your lips from the foldback or bulldog clips?

Ask me, I know...


Friday, January 14, 2011

Alas,



The Trouble With Autobiography

"Novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux examines other authors' autobiographies to prove why this piece will suffice for his"
It's mainly a difficulty with objectivity (and perhaps just a little bit with honesty)...


Wednesday, May 26, 2010

What may be an unsatisfactory book

explaining parts of an unsatisfactory life, by an unsatisfied man...

Christopher Hitchens: 'I was right and they were wrong'

"From hero of the left to neocon turncoat, and still battling on: Christopher Hitchens talks to Decca Aitkenhead about old arguments and his new memoir"
He's been at opposite ends of the spectrum politically and somewhat religiously, and one can't help but get the feeling that there's a lot of unhappiness and instability there, despite the intellect...


Monday, May 17, 2010

A very good article,


more of a memoir, but a sincere article on Bernard Lonergan as well.

Memories of Bernard Lonergan

There's nothing like a Canadian Jesuit philosopher...

(Actually, I'm rather fond of what I've read of Lonergan, but then I tend to lean toward Thomism anyway, not that I'm terribly interested or involved in philosophy in any significant way, being a bear of very little brains...)

(Does that mean I have wasted my life?)