Academia as Lifestyle
For a select few of us, academia or scholarship, is not a costume but a way of life, a kind of theme for moving…
Choose to Do
This little core message is meant to draw a line between two things: The sentence is basically saying: Your self and who you truly…
Romantic Catholicism as Personal Etiquette, Part 2; append
A graceful, reciprocal way of being: infusing everyday life with Romantic passion, imagination, and a sense of the sublime, while anchoring it in Catholic…
Autumn and Lore
Autumn, with its crackling leaves and amber-tinged hush, is more than a season, it is a storyteller. As the wheel of the year tilts…
On Rails and Reverie
There is something ancient and noble about the sound of a train. A low hum. A rhythmic pulse. A song of departure. To travel…
How to Observe Lent
When we speak of Lent we speak in the terms of “the desert,” we are recalling a real and decisive moment in the life…
Iron and breath.
“What about the Big Boy Victory locomotive?” Steam locomotives are fundamentally honest machines. You see the rods move, you see the forces of power…
Romantic Catholicism as Personal Etiquette, Part 1
Catholic Romanticism Romantic Catholicism; refers to a 19th-century tendency within the broader European Romantic movement that fused Romantic ideals—emotion, imagination, subjectivity, medieval revival, nature’s…