I have a road trip of about 600 miles, starting early in the morning. My class schedule this week is heavy with assignments, dealing with APA form, grammatical context, and writing a persuasive essay. I want to wake by 4 in the morning, so I can return home at a reasonable time, especially since Gabriel is not feeling so good right now. I'm a Dad... I worry about my little guy. I wish I had the inspiration to write something great, but my mind is exhausted tonight. Instead, here is something full of meaning, from a brilliant conservative mind, and I give him full credit. Rich Galen, mullmeister extraordinaire, as always, way to go, weaving words, skillfully, into a masterpiece. If you want to read more from him, check out http://www.mullings.com.
From Rich Galen: Keith Olbermann, on MSNBC Saturday night, said he remembered the time in Los Angeles when Pope John Paul II was being fawned over by the LA crowd: the singers, the dancers, the actors.
I had forgotten about this incident, but Olbermann had not.
The Pope singled out a young man who had been born without arms, but who had learned to play the guitar with his feet and toes. The young man played for the Pope. Oscars, Grammies, Golden Globes meant nothing.
A boy who had, through no fault of his own, been visited with what should have been a devastating disability. The boy got to play for the Pope. The Pope chose that boy to perform.
In the first days of the 21st Century there are many things in classical Catholic teachings with which one might disagree. You can disagree with, but not fault, a person who - like John Paul II - speaks from his heart. And from his soul.
Before he was elected Pope, John Paul II was Karol Wojtyla of Poland. While he was the Cardinal of Poland, he gave strength and support to the Solidarity movement in Poland which foreshadowed the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.
Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt defeated the Nazis; Ronald Reagan and Karol Wojtyla, arguably, defeated Communism.
Pretty good group.
Most of us go through life barely scanning what others write. Some are lucky enough to add commas and semi-colons and page-breaks to the daily discourse.
But men like John Paul II, and before him Churchill, Roosevelt and Reagan, fashion the great works of their times and leave the rest of us to ponder how, in some minute manner, we can be more like them.
Oseh shalom beem'roh'mahv, hoo ya'aseh shalom aleynu' v'eemru:
He who makes peace in His heights, may He make peace upon us... now say:
Amen.
Thanks, Mr. Galen, for helping me out tonight. Okay... it's my pathetic excuse for writing from here 'til the end of this entry.
It occurred to me that Terri Schindler was very possibly holding open the gate, waiting for Pope John Paul to come Home.
I am sure that Juan Pablo II is doing fine now, free of his physical ailments. The bigger question is, how will we do without him? Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II, rest in peace.
From Rich Galen: Keith Olbermann, on MSNBC Saturday night, said he remembered the time in Los Angeles when Pope John Paul II was being fawned over by the LA crowd: the singers, the dancers, the actors.
I had forgotten about this incident, but Olbermann had not.
The Pope singled out a young man who had been born without arms, but who had learned to play the guitar with his feet and toes. The young man played for the Pope. Oscars, Grammies, Golden Globes meant nothing.
A boy who had, through no fault of his own, been visited with what should have been a devastating disability. The boy got to play for the Pope. The Pope chose that boy to perform.
In the first days of the 21st Century there are many things in classical Catholic teachings with which one might disagree. You can disagree with, but not fault, a person who - like John Paul II - speaks from his heart. And from his soul.
Before he was elected Pope, John Paul II was Karol Wojtyla of Poland. While he was the Cardinal of Poland, he gave strength and support to the Solidarity movement in Poland which foreshadowed the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.
Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt defeated the Nazis; Ronald Reagan and Karol Wojtyla, arguably, defeated Communism.
Pretty good group.
Most of us go through life barely scanning what others write. Some are lucky enough to add commas and semi-colons and page-breaks to the daily discourse.
But men like John Paul II, and before him Churchill, Roosevelt and Reagan, fashion the great works of their times and leave the rest of us to ponder how, in some minute manner, we can be more like them.
Oseh shalom beem'roh'mahv, hoo ya'aseh shalom aleynu' v'eemru:
He who makes peace in His heights, may He make peace upon us... now say:
Amen.
Thanks, Mr. Galen, for helping me out tonight. Okay... it's my pathetic excuse for writing from here 'til the end of this entry.
It occurred to me that Terri Schindler was very possibly holding open the gate, waiting for Pope John Paul to come Home.
I am sure that Juan Pablo II is doing fine now, free of his physical ailments. The bigger question is, how will we do without him? Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II, rest in peace.
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