Everything that fails to fit, elsewhere
MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: ‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, 5 But being too happy in thine happiness, That thou, […]
Poem of the Day: Ode to a Nightingale (John Keats) Read More »
I visited the Hyde Park location of Holy Trinity Church, today. I figured that any church holding services in a chapel at a synagogue has got to be interesting. I really liked it. It really made me think, and provided a lot of what I’m looking for in a church home.
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My alma mater is tied with Army for the longest NCAA football losing streak in the nation, at 10 games. Go Rice! Sigh… Only 117 days until the baseball season opener…
Rice Football is… Not Doing so Well Read More »
If you know me, at all, then you know that one of my greatest pet peeves is incompetence in any form. This afternoon, though, left me wondering which I find most infuriating: Incompetence in combination with apathy, Incompetence in combination with racism, or Incompetence in combination with raw stupidity. I had the charming opportunity to
I was a Religious Studies major as an undergraduate. I loved my field and my department, and I would not change my major, if I could go back to that time. I have to say, though, that a major like RELI makes it very hard to take any group – religious or otherwise – at
Skepticism and Faith Read More »