
Expectations
I did not define life expectancy by the length of life, however, but by the quality of it, by what I expect from it and by how well my expectations are met. What I have learned…is that the more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your…

Living a Double Life
When you keep a secret from those closest to you, even with the best of motives, there is a danger that you will create a smaller life within your main life. The first secret will spin off other secrets that also must be kept, complicated webs of evasion that grow into elaborate architectures of repressed truths and subterfuge, until you…

Angry Birds, Twisted Culture
By Peter Darcy It takes a lot to offend me nowadays, given the thick-skinned attitude toward movies that we all must, of necessity, develop as media consumers. However, I became an angry bird myself while watching the eponymous movie on its opening weekend. Like any kid movie, Angry Birds contains the expected inane humor suited to an adolescent and pre-adolescent…

Duty
Duty doesn’t need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret. Stormy Llewellyn, whom I loved and lost, believed that this strife-torn world is boot camp, preparation for the great adventure that comes between our first life and our eternal life. She said that we…

Emptiness of Soul
[Vanadium said,] “When you’re as hollow as [villain] Enoch Cain, the emptiness aches. He’s desperate to fill it, but he doesn’t have the patience or the commitment to fill it with anything worthwhile. Love, charity, faith, wisdom – those virtues and others are hard won, with commitment and patience, and we acquire them one spoonful at a time. Cain wants…

Notre Dame’s Moral Equivalency Award
By Thomas J. McKenna Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame… What though the odds be great or small Old Notre Dame will win over all While her loyal sons are marching Onward to…moral equivalency and rampant degradation of Catholic teaching. The famed “Notre Dame Fight Song” is supposed to end with the rousing phrase, “Onward to victory!” but I thought…

Free Will
Conversation between Odd Thomas and 86-year-old Edie Fischer, concerning the value of human action to fight evil: “Tell me straight now. Do you know what going to happen tonight?” “No, Oddie. For all you may think differently. I’m only human. Annamaria’s human, too, though she’s more than that, as you no doubt suspect. But human nonetheless. We don’t know. Whatever…
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