An overcast day conveys an admixture of somberness and beauty. There were two brief showers, the first in many weeks in California’s Central Valley.
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Meditations
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One bright sunny Sunday morning as a senior in high school, I came downstairs and announced to my stunned parents that I wouldn’t be going to Mass that day or…
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The need to deny the global crisis of man, and place the enormity of present challenges to humanity in some partial and prior context, is extremely strong. It’s also the…
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Google has a Disneyland, albeit an intellectual’s Disneyland quality about it–smart and appealing, but hollow inside. Despite or because of this, the virtual juggernaut aims to take over the world…
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The final barrier between the virtual world and the real world was erased last week when a 12-year-old girl, after being mercilessly harassed and bullied online, climbed a platform at…
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There have been religious revolutions (most notably in ancient India, defining the East). There have been philosophical revolutions (most notably in ancient Greece, defining the West). There have been political…
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Perhaps the biggest difference between Christianity and Buddhism is their respective philosophies and attitudes toward suffering. Christianity has enshrined it as ennobling; Buddhism decries it as unnecessary. The Buddhists are…
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Backpacking in the Hetch Hetchy wilderness, you feel both its vastness and sublimity, and a heartbreaking truncation. Magnificent waterfalls plunge over the cliffs, only to fall into a huge reservoir.…