Aging. Just when you're finally used to your body, it starts changing on you...
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Monday, June 27, 2016
Another Open Thread
Too much going on. Now the wife needs a new hip, soon to be installed. Afterwards we'll know how much of the pain had been coming from the hip rather than the back.
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I cannot talk about anything without talking about everything. --Chesterton
Fundamentally there are only three miracles: existence, life, intelligence; with intelligence, the curve springing from God closes on itself like a ring that in reality has never been parted from the Infinite. --Schuon
The quest, thus, has no external 'object,' but is reality itself becoming luminous for its movement from the ineffable, through the Cosmos, to the ineffable. --Voegelin
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. --Wittgenstein
Age - a sign of the times. Sorry to hear that, and of course best wishes and prayers for Leslie and the whole den.
ReplyDeleteYup. As one famous actress said: getting old is not for sissies. Well wishes to Mrs. Godwin.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry to hear that. I hope and pray that whatever is done, she is healed swiftly and her pain is finally eased.
ReplyDeletePrayers that this helps Leslie and stops the pain.
ReplyDeleteWe will be praying for Mrs. G.
ReplyDeleteRandom thought of the evening: The color pink is the visual equivalent of the sound of one hand clapping.
ReplyDeleteUnrelated, Insrapundit asks why modern women are angry. Short answer: they got what they thought they wanted.
Mrs. G and family are in my prayers.
ReplyDeleteWishing Mrs. G a speedy recovery. You and your family will be in my prayers.
ReplyDeleteI have a pink polo shirt. Is that bad?
ReplyDeleteThe real question is how pink actually exists, given that it is a mixture of red and violet, which are at opposite sides of the spectrum and thus don't touch each other much less blend.
ReplyDeleteSo your shirt probably exists, but the color may be all in your head.
... makes sense, since we're all living in a string theory hologram anyway, so...go pink tech.
ReplyDeleteStealth Polo -- I'm in..
ReplyDeleteWe all live in a big pink hologram.
ReplyDeleteGeorge says "♫ ♪ ♫ ...a big pink hologram... ♪ ♫ ♫"
ReplyDeletePaul says "♫ ♪ ♫ ...a big pink hologram. ♪ ♫ ♫"
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ReplyDeleteHopefully, the surgery and recovery go well.
ReplyDelete@Van:
ReplyDelete"... makes sense, since we're all living in a string theory hologram anyway, so...go pink tech."
Did you see the new black hole theory?
Black holes are black string theory fuzzballs.
No event horizon. No singularity.
Just a string fuzzball.
Speaking of aging, my hard drive -- which wasn't actually that old -- just crashed & I'm encountering some difficulty signing into the blog via the wife's computer. Her surgery is scheduled for July 12. I'm guessing that blogging will be sporadic in July, but you never know.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, the biography of Churchill (found in the sidebar) is the the best biography I've ever read. It is so detailed, and yet never becomes tedious or pedantic. The writing alone is magnificent, worthy of its superhuman subject. Every paragraph is a gem, with nothing just carelessly tossed off. The only downside is that reading about such a soul makes one feel a bit inferior (despite the fact that the author doesn't avoid criticism when warranted: the bigger the man, the bigger the mistakes, you might say).
I'm now going to switch gears and dive into volume 3 of the Spitzer tetralogy.
Ugh - that sucks about the hard drive. Seems like they don't last nearly as long as you'd hope given how much information they can theoretically hold.
ReplyDeleteStill praying for Mrs. G. The 12th is close, though it must seem me like an eternity when you are in pain. I hope and pray everything goes well.
I see that the biography is the last part of a trilogy on to itself. Did you read the prior volumes, or do you have plans to? A lot of ground to cover in one great life!
ReplyDeleteI haven't read the previous volumes. I finally finished this 1,053 page beast a few seconds ago. From the first to last paragraph, it never slackens. Beautifully written.
ReplyDeletePrayers up for hipness!
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Churchill, he once penned a cautionary note on prayers for rain.
ReplyDeleteDarn it, now you've nudged me to embark on a thousand page book when I have so many in the queue :).
ReplyDeleteI divide my pile, such that there are "daytime" books that require full concentration and "evening" books that don't. The Churchill bio falls into the latter, in that it is extremely entertaining and educational but without overtaxing the noggin. Reading, say, Schuon, is the opposite, in that he requires the full cooperation of all one's faculties.
ReplyDeleteWhich goes to one of the peculiar things about Churchill. Despite the fact that he literally drank all day and night, his faculties were never diminished. There was no off switch. He would dictate to his secretaries late into the night, until eventually going to bed at 2 or 3 AM. He was truly sui generis, including with regard to his constitution. He didn't metabolize alcohol like the rest of us. As one colleague said, he couldn't have been alcoholic because no alcoholic could drink that much.
And when I say that his faculties were never diminished, I don't understand how someone could churn out such memorable and beautifully crafted sentences one after the other, all day long and into the night. Had to be a divine gift. He was just the channel.
ReplyDeleteThe English Channel?
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize that Bob mentioned my upcoming surgery, or that so many had left such kind notes of prayer and encouragement. I'm so relieved and a little nervous, but expecting everything to go well. Bob has been doing so much to help me and do things with Tristan I normally do, so I apologize once again for setting back the progress of human wisdom at least a few months.
ReplyDeleteThank you all sincerely for your prayers. I don't know when on Tuesday I'll be in surgery, but I do feel lifted up in prayer the last month or so. And I'm studying the Book of James, which is amazing timing (selected by my Protestant friend who runs Bible Study, but has been an enlightening experience I have never had before.) James is about enduring and growing closer to God through suffering, which is shocking on the face of it, but makes sense when the Holy Spirit explains it to you (and my study Bible.)
God bless you and I hope to be back to being a regular lurker here again very soon!
Mrs. G
Thank you Mrs. G! God bless you!
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