Greg Boyle at CAC event shared a favorite word of Ignatius (acatamiento) -- translates to affectionate awe. We should look at the poor and dispossessed and the migrant as God does. "Let's try to look at the poor with awe at what they are carrying rather than with judgment of how they carry it."

Heard today at ReVision (Center for Action and Contemplation) "Silence is God's first language, everything else is a poor translation." Thomas Keating

Belonging is discovering who you really are in the presence of others who love you.

"I pray and counsel you...to live always a most holy and simple life. Be careful to avoid anyone who would teach or guide you in any other way." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LiveTheGospel

Graham Greene: “The greatest saints have been men with more than a normal capacity for evil, and the most vicious men have sometimes narrowly evaded sanctity.”

“It is an eternal obligation towards the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has the chance of coming to his assistance.” — Simone Weil

Brian Kilmeade deserves praise for his apology.

From Greg Boyle, SJ, on the Dan Harris podcast.

Postscript by Seamus Heaney who died twelve years ago today

We can't even play basketball 🏀 🤬

Sunrise, sunset Sunrise, sunset Swiftly fly the years One season following another Laden with happiness and tears One season following another Laden with happiness and tears Perry Como

Santa Fe sunset and baby hawk at home in Los Ranchos, NM.

Good Samaritan Sunday. The "law" is written on our hearts. "It is something very near to you, already in your mouths and in your hearts; you have only to carry it out." Who is our neighbor? We know in our hearts; we don't want to live up to it -- we want an out in the law. Be like the Samaritan.

Where should I flee before You, when all my yearning for the unbounded, even my bold trust in my littleness, is really a confession of You? Karl Rahner

Beautifully reasoned and written review of books from Peterson and Douhat.

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

#tdih 1820 You've heard of Amistad, but what about Antelope ship 19 years earlier? Ship captured by U.S. Treasury. 281 Africans aboard in bondage were imprisoned. Not given rightful freedom as they demanded. 7 year legal battle. #Reparations #TeachTruth🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/an...

Trick question. New Mexicans know that we have a unique cuisine here with our red chile and green chile so I'm going with Arizona for Mexican food. And New Mexico has the best local food in all of the southwest, including SoCal and whatever Texas does.

President of the Mexican Senate, "We'll build the wall and pay for it. But we'll do it according to the 1830 map of Mexico... Mexicans were settled in these territories before the U.S. The Mexicans living there are in what has always been their homeland."

Also, Mike Johnson has a tar and feather fetish. It's all jokes until they do it and they would love to do it. I mean who looks at another American leader with a different viewpoint and thinks, "I'd sure like to tar and feather that guy?"

Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. ...I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all. Abraham Joshua Heschel

Ineffable beauty of this poem. To me it captures the images in my own brain of watching my father work. youtu.be/KNRkPU1LSUg?...

We can not think our way to God. God can be loved but not thought. Cloud of Unknowing

Unknowing is not ignorance or absence of knowledge as ordinarily understood, but rather the realization that no finite knowledge can fully know the Infinite One, and that therefore He is only truly to be approached by agnosia, or by that which is beyond and above knowledge. Dionysius

When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity - that was a quality God's image carried with it - when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.

Moon tonight

Wisdom doesn't come with age, you just get more chances.

people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?