If your future self could send you one sentence, what do you hope it would say?
Oh wow!!! This is so weird!
So maybe the future me would simply say, “All Good”.
Category: Personal
Spaghetti Bolognese
What’s the best local dish you’ve ever eaten while traveling?
I do not travel so my favourite dish at home is … Spaghetti Bolognese! In fact, any pasta is a very good meal.
Heritage Edition
I purchased a Heritage Edition Prayer Book and Bible. (Like I need more BCPs and KJVs, and, yes, for my birthday). This is one of the best starter BCPs – with KJV! I like that I can take just one book everywhere. All I need is here. Very nice size! The KJV font is a little small but I can read when I remember to put on my glasses.
Yes, I have a 1928 Deposited Book (and it has been my constant companion). But this might be better!!! Very nice hand-feel!!! And the cost is a quarter of the 1928 with 1922 Lectionary.
life skills?!
What’s a thing you wish schools actually taught?
I am not convinced that schools teach anything, besides measuring yourself against abstract standards!
I want to say life skills – like cooking and budgeting. But I will be a snob and say, “classical philosophy”.
alone
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
Don’t chase anyone! If they do not answer, do not chase. If they make no effort, do not chase. Being alone is often much better than being an addition.
transfiguration of the Lord
Today is the great feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ. I wish all of you to be spiritually transfigured and to begin a new life in Christ. Those who fulfill the commandments of the Lord according to their strength even here on earth pass from strength to strength. But those who are counted worthy to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven will pass already from glory to glory.
Talks with Spiritual Children: Spiritual Counsel from St. Barsanuphius of Optina
And, today, is my birthday! So happy birthday to me.
looks
What’s something you used to worry about but don’t anymore?
I want to say other people and their opinions. But maybe the way I look is more realist. I used to care, especially when I was much younger, but now it is just no longer part of my thought-process. I am simply past it
Anyway …
person over institution
What’s a quote that perfectly describes your outlook on life?
… wherever Jesus Christ is [present], there is the Church
As a person who is de-churched (that is, I was once involved but no longer), this quote by Ignatius of Antioch sets the baseline. I want to entertain that I still have faith but will remain outside the institution for the foreseeable future. Jesus over institution.
my house!
What are your top 10 travel destinations?
I do not travel – never! So I will share my favourite rooms of the house:
- Chapel/Oratory
- Library
- Bedroom
- Kitchen
- Refectory (dinning room)
- Living Room
- …
- …
- …
- Bathroom
what is existentialism?
Existentialism explained in one picture.
a fool and his prayer book 