An old gift...

...Finally displayed properly.
Thanks, Se!

Peggy Noonan is Great, or "I Hate Politics, pt X"

As to the question when human life begins, the answer to which is above Mr. Obama's pay grade, oh, let's go on a little tear. You know why they call it birth control? Because it's meant to stop a birth from happening nine months later. We know when life begins. Everyone who ever bought a pack of condoms knows when life begins.

To put it another way, with conception something begins. What do you think it is? A car? A 1948 Buick?

If you want to argue whether legal abortion is morally defensible, have at it and go to it, but Mr. Obama's answers here seemed to me strange and disturbing.

The rest.

Related but different, the DNC is a load of horse manure in at least on respect, probably others (which is not to say the RNC is a repository of truth and candor).

Yup, Still Alive

You know that saying, life intervenes? I might be making that up, but even in such case, you're clever enough to get what I mean. Anyway, that's my excuse. The last couple months of school and getting ready to leave the convent and go to Notre Dame sucked up most of my time in April and May, and ACE sucked up every waking moment in June and July.

A brief summary of my first ACE summer:

ACE has articulated the philosphy of education I've been dancing around for years: education is a social justice issue, because education is a right to all people because of their God-given dignity. Moreover, education is about the whole kid and not just their little brains. These were things I knew, but I don't think I'd articulated it, and ceetainly hadn't met so many people who agree.

My fellow ACErs are the greatest "quantity of quality" of people I've ever encountered. I have always been blessed with remarkable, incredible, astounding friends, make no mistake, but the sheer number of "wow" people I met was awesome. One rarely encounters this caliber of people, and never in such numbers.

The Church I fawn over so much is more than the mystical, mysterious body I usually focus on. It's a living, breathing institution, and I'm trying to shift my perspective to see that better, day to day.

More will come out in the wash, I'm sure.

I'll be in Brownsville with my community Tuesday night. Teaching starts August 22.

Sparkly girl

This merry go round is an annual tradition.

I love california.

From Balboa Pier

“If you intend to love as God does, then plan on being frustrated as God is.”

- Don Kimball

Thanks, Joe!

Four hard won fish

Theyll be pious fish after we take them to Mass in a little while.

Dunk a priest!

Didnt quite get it, though he had the force to if he had hit it.

St Edward parish carnival

8 years old

A few days late. Im still in denial.