http://pedrocabiya.com/tag/michael-myers/ Since my return from West Virginia, where I enjoyed the comforts of modern life, the physical challenges of my cabin life I have felt more as a burden than a pleasure. Summer is no time for physical labor or being overly responsible. Just yesterday I brought in groceries – bread and milk and ice – […]
Monthly Archives: July 2011
The Story of Temple Drake.
31-Jul-11More Depressing Church News.
21-Jul-11Resistencia A recent report on sexual abuse in Ireland has concluded that the hierarchy’s practices regarding sexual abuse have not changed much, with the hierarchy covering up cases two-thirds of the time, in cases from 1996 to 2007, even after new guidelines had been released. The Vatican in particular came up for rebuke, as it apparently […]
Back Home.
19-Jul-11I left the Rusticatio Virginiana yesterday afternoon, after several days discussing the future and mission of SALVI, an organization dedicated to living Latin; and after dinner on the road and a long conversation with a friend, I found myself just outside of Liberty, New York, around 1 a.m. My eyes were closing involuntarily, and I […]
I am Starting to Hate This.
06-Jul-11There are a great number of things I love about the Catskills – a friend was just enthusing to me that she could see the constellation Delphinus from my cabin, and I know that you cannot see Delphinus from everywhere in this wasteful age. I love listening to the animals at night and the storms […]
The Sound of a Bear.
04-Jul-11It rained most of the day yesterday, and a guest and I came out of the cabin as the skies cleared in the early evening. As we were working putting down a bark-mulch in the garden, we heard a large animal moving through the forest – the snapping of a twig, and the swishing of […]
When I tried to read Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain while in college – a book compared (by the publishing trade) with Augustine’s Confessions – I was astounded to find the book self-promoting, egotistical, petty, and posturing, without a single elevated thought or even sentence that could place it with the Confessions. This is one […]
Man-crush in Latin.
19-Jul-11This past weekend I saw a friend I had not seen in months, and my excitement prompted my Latin-speaking friends to wonder how to say “man-crush” in Latin. We came up with the term “adviratio,” from the new verb adviro, advirare, “to have a man-crush” or “to have a bromance.” Floreat illa locutio.