Doing Dishes and Great Music

Doing Dishes and Great Music

For many of us it is hard to find time to listen to great music. Even though convinced it would be good for us, we struggle to fit it in. Perhaps we can combine two good things: doing dishes and great music. In any case, both are worth making time for. This is a...
New Eyes in Spring

New Eyes in Spring

A man yelled in the middle of my public lecture, “I see your point!” I was a bit flustered. Then I noticed the man was blind. His outburst highlights a paradox at the center of human life: there is seeing, and there is seeing. What does it take to see in the sense...
What is Glory, and Why It Matters

What is Glory, and Why It Matters

It is remarkable how many words we use—often even important ones—without a clear notion of what they mean. Glory has been one of those words for me. Then one day I read a definition in Thomas Aquinas that fairly stopped me in my tracks. “The word glory properly...
Restoring Craftsmanship to Restore Humanity

Restoring Craftsmanship to Restore Humanity

Cultivating the earth is an exercise in being human. And this exercise is more important today than ever before as we suffer an increasing loss of a sense of the human difference. Here I mean all of us, not just confused intellectuals or mislead youth. Human life is a...
Everything in Its Place: A Unique Beauty in the Home

Everything in Its Place: A Unique Beauty in the Home

From what I hear and what I see, some people are compulsive in keeping spaces tidy. Many others of us have an opposite problem. We might ask why it’s so difficult to get right how we order our spaces. Perhaps there is no great mystery here. In the art of living it is...

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