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Despite not hitting, the Mets are winning anyway thanks to guts, guile, and some very strong pitching…

Mets walk-off the Jays in a character-building win

This diorama at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC recreates the Theodore Roosevelt Bird Sanctuary in Oyster Bay. This very spot is less than two miles from the house where I grew up. It's always a joy to know that my hometown is represented at my favorite museum.

St. Teresa pray for us 🙏🏽

This is the Fourth Water in St. Teresa's autobiography, The Book of Her Life, chap. 19:

“There remains in the soul, when the prayer of union is over, an exceedingly great tenderness; so much so, that it would undo itself—not from pain, but through tears of joy it finds itself bathed therein, without being aware of it, and it knows not how…

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Welcome to the 624th week of Lent.

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If we truly want to stand up to the world around us. We start by making Christ our top priority. One of the ways is to attend Mass and making sure all who desire to take part are able to.

Immediate recognition here. You describe roughly the right hemispheric way of being in the world, being part of the place. Your six observations ring very true to me. This stood out: Endless complexity of thought seems grounded in a more stable configuration of feeling spaces. I don't think it is proto in the sense of primitive though. To me it is the embracing, larger communication that permeates the place.

The word precise leaps at me as too easily translated as a form of focus. I feel the opposite is happening; a relaxing of focus that allows to come closer, allows more intimacy through large surface openness, not narrow, precise attention. In practice, precision is about proximation, not the theory of exactness. Hope this doesn't sound as a total paradox. Words are not suited for this.....

One more thing, I wondered if you have experimented with people drawing, painting, expressing their feeling in other ways than words? Colour, texture, sound, size, shape, movement....

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