Musing

On Various Matters - Design refresh still pending. Probably looking at a summer roll-out at this point. - Our sidewalk lamps were stolen at some point last night or this afternoon. I'm not sure how best to deal with this, so I'm stuck in a pissed-off funk. - Tom McRae's new album is amazing, and a review that I started and forgot to finish weeks ago will be posted soon. - I've also finally finished The Gathering Storm . WOW. Sanderson is making a serious run to be one of my favorite authors of all time.

On Moral and Religious Upbringing Is it any wonder that there can be no peace in a world where everything is done to guarantee that the youth of every nation grow up absolutely without moral and religious discipline, and without the shadow of an interior life, or of that spirituality and charity and faith which alone can safeguard the treasures and agreements made by governments? And Catholics, thousands of Catholics everywhere, have the consummate audacity to weep and complain because God does not hear their prayers for peace, when they have neglected not only His will, but the ordinary dictates of natural reason and prudence, and let their children grow up according to the standards of a civilization of hyenas. -Thomas Merton, "The Seven Story Mountain" Though it seems harsh on Catholics, this is the only background from which Merton could speak with personal authority. It is safe to say that this statement can be far more broadly applied.