If this actually launches it will be a huge deal.

#grownostr

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Welcome and let er rip

"Put first things first, and you get second things thrown in. Put second things first, and you lose both." CS Lewis

The Gospel today was on preferring darkness to light. I am pondering how the light often comes as self-awareness, mediated by honest insight about ourselves by others, whether positive or critical. It accompanies failure, too, after reaching out for a potential good and not realizing it, for lack of determination or foresight or teamwork. This is precious knowledge, indeed, hard won and to be treasured. Anyone who finds a friend capable of speaking to such knowledge with candor and grace has found a sturdy shelter, a treasure beyond reckoning.

#logos #godstr

Where did you get introduced to Thomism?

Apropos of nothing, hear this outstanding presentation and analysis of the experience of anger:

https://share.snipd.com/post/087b3e51-318b-4a0e-b5a8-391e976305c8

I often find people simply lack any vocabulary whatsoever regarding anger, beyond "anger is bad and a failure".

But anger is not sinful in and of itself. Thomas helps name what is *good* about anger and how it commonly goes wrong.

Whole talk here:

https://share.snipd.com/snip/09dcf650-97ef-48c7-8e31-b22261c539c5

#godstr

Having some trouble with my relays and contacts. I appear to have lost a few follows and I'm having to re-follow many npubs.

I'm posting from an app that lists the ones that have followed me in the past... you might just check to make sure you're still following me if you see this.

Backing up my contacts list now. follows.nostr.com

#plebchain #godstr

Ditto

I don't tell people how much bitcoin I own but when it hits $100k there will be signs

https://www.jetpens.com/Pelikan-Classic-M200-Fountain-Pen-Orange-Delight-Broad-Nib-Limited-Edition/pd/41225

Amazing.... That is a niche world I have been a part of ever since high school and college. I studied at one of the handful of Great Books colleges here in the US.

Our parish school has been moving to the classical liberal arts model but is closing this year for all sorts of reasons. The world of education is not an easy place to be a reformer.

I will keep an eye out for your entries. Illegitimi non carborundum

Lots of good conversation:

Gaudiumetspes22 podcast

https://Larrychapp.podbean.com

RSS address: https://Larrychapp.podbean.com/feed.xml

Exploring the feminine genius

Letters to Women - Exploring the Feminine Genius

https://letterstowomenpodcast.com/

RSS address: https://anchor.fm/s/36e82ae8/podcast/rss

Trauma and healing - therapeutic perspective

The Place We Find Ourselves

https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-place-we-find-ourselves--2920391

RSS address: https://www.spreaker.com/show/2920391/episodes/feed

More academic theology

The Thomistic Institute

http://www.thomisticinstitute.org

RSS address: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:44631369/sounds.rss

Healing and friendship - sisters in Christ

Abiding Together

https://www.abidingtogetherpodcast.com/

RSS address: https://abidingtogether.libsyn.com/rss

General Catholic commentary about all kinds of stuff:

https://catholicstuffpodcast.com/

Listen to the Bible in a year

https://media.ascensionpress.com/category/ascension-podcasts/bibleinayear/

Current events inside and outside the Catholic Church

https://www.pillarcatholic.com/s/the-pillar-podcast

These are talks you give....?

What a strange place Nostr is!

I only studied Euclid in college but if there were one book I could get everyone to read, it would be the Elements... So I was amused to read your response "of course" since absolutely no one studies Euclid 😂

Wait. You studied Euclid?

I don't know how that could be done without just open sourcing the content for free and soliciting donations. Purchasing digital content doesn't work without kicking it down on the platform so it can't be pirated, right? That's the reasoning anyway.

The best way would be v4v so audiobook producers could still get paid.

I did a couple audiobooks for the school I lead in that format, set up with option to stream sats.

CTK Story Hour

https://ctkclassical.org

RSS address: https://anchor.fm/s/1ba0100c/podcast/rss

There are others doing similar things with material that is no longer copyrighted.

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Easter treat

I read about these books in The Marginalian newsletter last week and they arrived today.

(https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/the-lost-words-macfarlane-morris/?mc_cid=b9da418827)

They were written in response to the omission from a popular children's dictionary of once common words from the natural world in favor of words like "pixel" and "broadband".

#poetry #watercolor #touchgrass

Truly magnificent books.

Audible is not ideal since you don't "own" the content.... But you do get a monthly credit that can be spent as you wish. Books go on sale a lot. Most importantly, the quality of the readers is far and away better than other places I've tried. Reading aloud is truly an art form and is valuable for the listener... at least in my case!

#godstr

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Alleluia, Alleluia

Those who come to the tomb asking "how shall we roll away the stone?" shall be eternally gladdened by the song "he is not here, he is risen"

Alleluia, Alleluia

#Godstr

I miss those days... 😜

No smoking for one week. The patch helps.

Cigarettes are sublime. As Richard Klein wrote, "Smoking belongs to that category of action that falls in between the states of activity and passivity—a somewhat embarrassed, embarrassing condition, unclean, unproductive, a mere gesture." I often quoted Matthew Schmitz as well: "If our bodies are temples, we should not fear to fill them with smoke... Still, incense is not tobacco, and I consider smoking a beautiful indulgence but an ugly habit."

A weapon against time. Pleasant beyond all measure. Yet I'm no longer free, entangled in a web of smoky tendrils. The patch has the nicotine covered; the craving is something else, something psychological or spiritual, affective--of the heart, even. Blessed are the pure of heart. It was, for me, becoming an ugly habit, tethering my attention and my gratification to itself and becoming something that clouded the eye of the heart.

So here I sit, slowly clearing the way for a better way. I may be permitted a little poetic musing to fill the gap.

"I cannot help but think that a leaf hailed by the French as une volupte nouvelle, the only pleasure unknown in ancient courts, is a fitting symbol for the advent of our Lord. We know what the ancients did not; we taste the sweet presence for which they longed. Christ is the true volupte nouvelle. To those who know him, all other pleasures seem tired and worn."

#quotestr #grownostr

I found a great article on how to set up the right general purpose relays a while back but I've lost track of it. Let me see if I can dig it up.

How many relays are you connected to? Adding more may help

Depending what you are using to access Nostr, the search function is usually under the "global" button