Month: October 2006

The Faranda weekend wanderings

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We had an interesting weekend, going out with friends last night, and visiting JFK and Stepinac high schools today, as we try and size up Joe’s options for school next year. Saturday night was Frodo’s in Pleasantville with our friends, Mike and Karen Riner, Paul and Doreen Novotny and Dennis and Denise Cannon. Frodo’s was … Read more

Brigid and Trinity

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This is from Wednesday – as the guinea pig gets a treat (carrot) from Brigid. Trinity has a different personality from Vindabel, our prior guinea pig. While all guinea pigs are flighty and shy, she is much more adventurous then Vindabel was. If you put Vindabel on the floor, she wouldn’t move. Trinity would take … Read more

Great picture from the Hubble telescope

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This is pretty cool… Yahoo! News caption: This Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The brightest and most compact of these are called super star clusters. (NASA, … Read more

CAT scan today

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Got to Sloan Kettering on York Ave. a little late, and then found out the scan was scheduled at the Third Ave and 64th St. satellite building, and not at the 67 St. main building. I had trouble actually finding the office (it’s between 2nd and 3rd Ave. and takes up the whole basement of … Read more

An interesting debate on Irish radio

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Amy Welborn is a Catholic author with a popular weblog. She has linked to an interesting debate on Irish radio about ten days ago, between the evolutionary biologist and virulent atheist Richard Dawkins, and Catholic journalist David Quinn. open book: Debating Dawkins Dawkins is about the most well known propagandist for atheism and against religion … Read more

The Pope on Judas Iscariot

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Pope Benedict has been giving a series of Wednesday afternoon talks over the last few months about each of the 12 Apostles. 

ZENIT has a very fascinating discussion of his final talk today, about Judas Iscariot.

Here is a link to the actual talk ZENIT News Agency–The World Seen from Rome and here is the commentary from ZENIT:

Pope: Judas’ Betrayal Sheds Light on God’s Mercy
Dedicates Address to Apostles Judas and Matthias

VATICAN CITY, OCT. 18, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Through Judas Iscariot’s betrayal of Christ, we learn that Jesus respects human freedom and waits for a sinner’s repentance, says Benedict XVI.

The Holy Father said this today addressing some 30,000 who had gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the general audience.

Benedict XVI dedicated his catechesis to the figure of Judas Iscariot, the apostle who betrayed Christ, and Matthias, the apostle who replaced Judas as one of the Twelve Apostles.

The Pope said that to understand the life of Judas means to understand decisive aspects of the mystery of man’s relationship with God.

Even after Judas’ death, said the Holy Father, it is not possible to pass a definitive judgment on him: Although "he departed afterward to hang himself, it is not for us to judge his gesture, putting ourselves in God’s place, who is infinitely merciful and just."

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Enlightened policies in France fuel mini baby boom

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It’s only a mini-boom, but still pretty cool. Good article. As Europe Grows Grayer, France Devises a Baby Boom – washingtonpost.com When Staub delivered twins last December — her third and fourth children — the nation not only increased their tax deductions and child allowances, the government-owned French train system offered 40 percent discounts off … Read more

The past weekend football and camping with Tim

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The past weekend was very, very busy. See the last post for the Harry Chapin Memorial Run story on Sunday. Joe spent Saturday doing his paintball thing with a dozen other boys in the woods near one of his classmates houses. I spent most of Saturday and into Sunday with Tim.  First at his football … Read more

Sunday’s Harry Chapin run

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My town, Croton on Hudson, holds the Harry Chapin Memorial Run against Hunger every year around this time. It’s held in Croton possibly because his record agent lived here.Welcome to

Harry Chapin Harry Chapin – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia was an entertainer and singer (“Cat’s in the the Cradle,” “Taxi”) from Long Island who was involved in raising money to combat hunger worldwide. He died in a car accident in 1981.

We have a local man, Sam Colombo (Sammy) who was disabled in an accident some years ago. Despite this, he takes part in the one mile “Fun Run” and raises lots of money – $8,160 this time around. He also dedicates his run each time to someone in the Croton community, and this year it was to Dave Entwistle, who died of cancer in 1993, at the age of 39.

I had gotten to know Dave in the 18 months before his death, as we were participating in a men’s Retreat group. Despite being a lawyer, he was a great guy, with a dry, slightly sarcastic sense of humor. He handled his illness with grace and wit. A good example for all of us.

Dave’s wife Marilyn organized a group to run this year, wearing a Dave Entwistle Memorial t-shirt, which I underwrote through my DBA, Thomas G. Faranda & Associates. The shirt was designed by Tara and Caitlin, Dave and Marilyn’s daughters. Besides the Fun Run, there’s a more serious 10K. I have mixed the pictures together from the two runs.

Here are some pictures from the day, starting with Sammy

Here’s Marilyn and her daughters, Tara and Caitlin. the shirt has a quote from Steve Prefontaine, “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” The back has a picture/outline of Dave.

The fellow wrapped in the blanket is Paul Dinter, Marilyn’s husband, along with other supporters for the day.

Here’s the back of the shirt

For LOTS more pictures hit the continue link right here:

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