Weishaupt (born February 6, 1748; died November 18, 1830) entered upon his professional career at Ingolstadt after an educational experience which had made him a passionate enemy of clericalism. His father having died when the son was only seven, his godfather, none other than Baron Ickstatt,...
Antonio José Martínez, eldest of his siblings, was born in 1793 at Abiquiú, NM six years before President Washington died, the year the cornerstone of the White House was laid, and the Cotton Gin invented. The family moved to Taos when Antonio José was eleven. He was seventeen when Pad...
I have loved the poems of W.B.Yeats since my dad showed me one of his poems back in his dusty, book-lined study at home. I had read poems before but never been that excited by them. There was something about the guttural, grief-stricken anger of Yeats’ political voice combined with...
Today I was greeted by this Discord ping: What I want to talk about is only very tangentially related to what you see above, and the result of some shower thoughts I had after reading that. I did not watch the video, and I do not intend to, just like I haven’t watched most of ...
Nothing, that is, but the "feel" of the desert—and young Garry Connell was desert-born and bred. He stopped once and dropped his pack while he mopped his wet face. From this point he could see his own ranch spread below him. Miramar, he had named it—"Beautiful Sea." The name ...
Before that mortification of the flesh which proceeds from our relation to the death of Christ, we bore a fruit generated through our carnal appetites by the Law, and the only being to whose honour and glory they contributed was Death. The sins committed under the old dispensation are ...
“In Aramaic, ‘mourning’ could mean sorrow, grief, pain, or regret. Humans always have the choice of learning by spiritual unfoldment or by painful experience. Most people do not seek God whole-heartedly unless trouble, sorrow or failure appears in their lives. I was referring to the ‘va...
I was born and raised in the Sonoran Desert, which is also the home of the Tohono O'odham, Pascua Yaqui, and Hohokam peoples. I then had the good fortune to live for over a decade surrounded by the lush abundance of the Pacific Northwest on the lands of
NY governor has vetoed a bill that would have legalized e-bikes/scooters citing safety concerns; bill was overwhelmingly passed in June by the NY legislature — He just vetoed a bill that was overwhelmingly passed in June — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has vetoed a bill … More: Streets...
This is also the first week I'm almost FF through the episodes, because I could not bear so many tropes, so many stupid behaviors just because we have to feel the episodes. I was fine with all the tropes so far, but episode 13 was a torture with the demolition, the school mums thro...