musing

Musing

while twirling spaghetti with a fork

Imagine if each rubber band is story

binding the newspaper full of stories

a ball of rubber bands on my hand, 

a collection  of stories.

clearthebookshelves

We were emptying the bookshelves for room painting. I gave all the Harry Potter books to our grandchildren. Throwaway all outmoded medical textbooks.

Then in the mail, I received  a birthday gift of 2 books of poetry: Collected Poem of James Laughlin and Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Gluck, from a friend.

My wife said I should start decluttering again. Start the purge, she said.

new beginning

2 days ago I celebrated my 75th birthday. I decided I will resume my musings again. Random thoughts come and I want to do conscious pickings and write them. I post my poetry, photos, and quotations in another blog: http://simpleimages2.wordpress.com

Books are still strewn all over our small condo. I'm reading randomly different books. I just picked 2 books: St. Thomas Aquinas by Jacques Maritain and The Restless Flame, A Novel about Saint Augustine by Louis de Wohl. 

I have read the biography of St. Thomas by Chesterton before but this book by Maritain is about the "genius and system of Aquinas." I graduated from University of Santo Tomas in Manila (Philippines) and I have a special affection for Thomas Aquinas.

I have read only the first 2 chapters The Confessions of St. Augustine in the past. I plan to read the novel and the Confessions together. Can I do all these wishes?

goodbye

“Paying attention to experience requires new skills, or at leaf new habits….Our attitudes about experience are usually governed by familiar concepts, and those familiar concepts don’t really do justice to the great variety we actually experience.”-Alva Noe
note: excerpts from: http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/12/30/373952810/in-search-of-a-science-of-consciousness

This is my last entry for now on this blog. I don’t know when I’ll start it again.

What's love?

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”-Thomas Merton

a lesson

"I was humbled on the mountain, in an almost biblical sense, virtually every day.”

note: from Running to the Mountain, A Midlife Adventure by Jon Katz

In the beginning

"The formation of faith is an ever-growing and deepening understanding of Divine Reality and our own reality…” -Richard Rohr

note: from Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation