ALAN writes:

Is there no escape from the drivel of human chattering? And could that question ever be more apropos than in this year of propaganda, revolution, electioneering, and the Great Flu Fraud?

These thoughts came to mind when I read a column Chicago newspaperman Bob Greene wrote twenty years ago about walking along the beach in Florida. He had been doing that for more than fifty years, since he was a boy.  He enjoyed it immensely. He walked alone, but he knew he was not alone. The Gulf, the beach, the sky, the silence, the sounds of night were always there for him to see, to hear, to absorb, and to appreciate.

He wrote about that experience in sharp contrast to the busy-ness and transience of men and women chattering about this or that political candidate.

He preferred the beach and the ocean. As far as I am concerned, there would be no contest. He was right.

The older I got, the more respect I have for nature and the less for modern Americans.

It was years and years ago when I concluded that there is no human invention for which I have less use than television.  During the early weeks of the Great Flu Fraud last spring, I decided to see whether I could find anything worth listening to on AM radio.  I was looking for some evidence—some tiny trace—of reason and old-fashioned American common sense.  I couldn’t find it. (more…)

KATHERINE writes:

What do you think about Trump’s nomination for SCOTUS?  I see this as a worse attack on motherhood/homemaking than anything the Democrats could do.  Amy Coney Barrett should be home taking care of those seven children and her husband.  She obviously does not need the money.  But her career as a lawyer and judge is SO much more important than being a mother.  Trump is implicitly sending this message, as I see it. (more…)

SHORT of an apology from President Trump for allowing this country to descend into medical tyranny and Bolshevik violence, and a vow from him to bring charges of fraud and treason against federal and state officials (I could care less what anyone who paws children as much as Joe Biden does has to say), I sure as heck was not going to watch these two professional wrestlers debate our future. American sovereignty is a thing of the past.

I heard it was every bit as awful as I expected.

It’s not good either way. (more…)

AN INTERESTING article by Ray Peat examines what he maintains are the damaging health effects of vegetable oils labeled “unsaturated” or “polyunsaturated.”

Are they the leading cause of obesity in America? (more…)

  TENS OF thousands of people gathered in Trafalgar Square and Hyde Park in London yesterday to show their resistance to Corona lies.  

“THE judgment of the world differs greatly from this. The world knows no greater evil than sickness; for the children of the world think of nothing but the enjoyment of every pleasure and the gratification of every desire; and because they know that it will be of no benefit and satisfaction to them to possess the whole world and to be sick at the same time, and therefore prevented from making use of and enjoying it, they look upon sickness as the greatest evil in the world. But if we form a right judgment of it, we will find that it is frequently the best thing that can befall man, for it opens his eyes and discovers to him the danger to which his salvation is exposed. In many cases sickness is more beneficial than health.”

— “The Sickness of the Body is a Blessing to the Soul” (more…)

"SEE how the study of medicine now so often leads astray into the paths of materialism and fatalism, to the great detriment of science and humanity. It is false to assert that simple nature is the explanation of suffering and death; and unfortunate are those whose physicians regard them as mere flesh and blood. Even the pagan school took a loftier view than that; and it was surely a higher ideal that inspired you to exercise your art with such religious reverence. By the virtue of your glorious death, O witnesses to the Lord, obtain for our sickly society a return to the faith, to the remembrance of God, and to that piety which is profitable to all things and all men, having the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come." ---- From The Liturgical Year, by Dom Prosper Guéranger (1841-1875)  

  Only in Sleep --- Sara Teasdale Only in sleep I see their faces, Children I played with when I was a child, Louise comes back with her brown hair braided, Annie with ringlets warm and wild. Only in sleep Time is forgotten— What may have come to them, who can know? Yet we played last night as long ago, And the doll-house stood at the turn of the stair. The years had not sharpened their smooth round faces, I met their eyes and found them mild— Do they, too, dream of me, I wonder, And for them am I too a child?  

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FROM The Four Temperaments by the Rev. Conrad Hocks, published in 1934:

Socrates, one of the most renowned of the Greek sages, used and taught as an axiom to his hearers: “Know yourself.”

One of the most reliable means of learning to know oneself is the study of the temperaments. For if a man is fully cognizant of his temperament, he can learn easily to direct and control himself. If he is able to discern the temperament of others, he can better understand and help them. (more…)

MORE THAN one million small businesses have permanently closed since March while Amazon and other big retailers have seen big surges in sales. Here's the story of one small restaurant that closed after 75 years in business. The owner has choice words for the health commissars.  

FROM the life of St. Thecla, (Feast day, Sept. 23) Butler's Lives of the Saints: "SHE was exposed naked in the amphitheatre, but clothed with her innocence; and this ignominy enhanced her glory and her crown. Her heart was undaunted, her holy soul exulted and triumphed with joy in the midst of lions, pards, and tigers: and she waited with a holy impatience the onset of those furious beasts, whose roarings filled even the spectators with terror. But the lions on a sudden forgetting their natural ferocity, and the rage of their hunger, walked gently up to the holy virgin, and laying themselves down at her feet, licked them as if it had been respectfully to kiss them: and, at length, notwithstanding all the keepers could do to excite and provoke them, they meekly retired like lambs, without hurting the servant of Christ." "We must live in the habitual practice of frequently denying our inclinations, and mortifying the senses. If we give our appetites full liberty in things that are not forbidden, they will quickly master us, and crave gratifications that are unlawful, with too great violence to be restrained by us. We shall not lose courage at the name of penance and mortification, as many are apt to do, if we look up at our eternal reward, and if we have before our eyes the austerities which the most tender virgins joyfully embraced for the sake of virtue."