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Feast of St.’s Peter and Paul; a poem by St. Pope John Paul II
A brief essay on the papacy – I am excerpting JP's poem. Peter, You Are the Floor; Give Thanks During the Second Vatican Council, Karol Wojtyla wrote a short poem about St. Peter, whose feast we celebrate today. Our feet meet the earth in this place; there are so many walls, so many colonnades, yet we…
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Pope Francis reiterates opposition to the death penalty
Good. Pope Francis: ‘Death Penalty Is Unacceptable’ Pope Francis has reaffirmed that the death penalty is unjustifiable today. In a video-message transmitted tonight to the participants of the VI World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Oslo, Norway, underway through June 23, the Pontiff stressed, “Nowadays, the death penalty is unacceptable, however grave the crime of…
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Father’s Day weekend solo trek up Beacon N. & S. mountains
Saturday, kind of on the spur of the moment – and a beautiful day to go. One of the things I wanted to do was test my MapMyHike phone app. I have the free version (naturally) and it’s really great. The GPS is amazing – it is accurate to just a couple of feet. I…
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Rugby: Essex RFC, “The Story of ’76”
Ahhh, 40 years ago – June fifth, 1976. In Downing Stadium, a Rugby Festival with four games. After three New York teams all get steamrolled by English sides, the England Champions Gosforth take on the NY champions – and my club – Essex. Along with Colin Kiley, I was co-captain of the team – in…
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Memorial Day this Monday; Walt Whitman on remembering the dead and suffering …
Whitman was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. A short excerpt below the link. How and Why We Remember the Dead: A Memorial Day Lesson from Walt Whitman Whitman particularly felt the urgent need to recall the soldiers who suffered and died in the military hospitals, which he called “the Untold and Unwritten History…
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Pipeline protestors establish themselves in a shipping container “home”
Interesting protest idea. According to the article below the police cut open the container and arrested them. Protests over a planned gas pipeline took an interesting turn Wednesday when two people locked themselves inside a shipping container blocking the construction site on the Peekskill-Buchanan border. According to a press release from ResistAIM, the protesters had…
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Yankees (finally!) back to .500
Yankees reach key benchmark behind untouchable Eovaldi With a 6-0 win over the Blue Jays in The Bronx, the Yankees got back to .500 (22-22) for the first time since April 14, when they were 4-4. All it took was six straight wins, a string that began with Tuesday night’s starter, Nathan Eovaldi, on the…
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Kimmel: Pink Performs “White Rabbit”
Pretty good – what would Grace Slick think? I still give the edge to Jefferson Airplane. And who is Pink? Whoever she is, she's making a lot of money.