Editing my next book and I just found this line about the book of Tobit: How much energy do we waste mourning over suffering that will never come, simply because we've forgotten how to hope? Gonna need to sit with that one.

Back on my nonsense (guessing at the original language of quotations I found 18 months ago and trying to reconstruct the originals so I can find the sources and add footnotes)

@BarbInNebraska Ooh, I haven't! He's cool!!

@cecsquared I feel like James Alberione ought to feel a little responsible for you....

@historyinpearls Let's goooooooo!

@historyinpearls Hands down Auriesville, NY

I've stumbled across the formula for the most delicious oatmeal: 1. Make oatmeal 2. Shake in a little brown sugar 3. A little more 4. A little more 5. Oops that was way more than intended! 6. Stir and enjoy

RT @IgnatiusPress: Sneak peek of our next Ignatius Press Podcast episode, where we are joined by @MegHunterKilmer to talk about the INCREDI…

RT @AlexiSargeant: An important point here: abruptly shuttering U.S.A.I.D. is not just a reckless and shameful action, but a huge unforced…

RT @womenpostingws: Women from India, Japan, and Syria who completed their education as physicians in Philadelphia, 1885.

13yo St Anthony of Nagasaki, as he hung on his cross, began to sing a psalm: “Praise the Lord you children!” (The account of his death says, "He learned it in catechism class in Nagasaki. They take care there to teach the children some psalms to help them learn their catechism.")

RT @JamesMartinSJ: Ethnic cleansing, according to Catholic teaching, is always an evil: "Far too often, the civilian population is hit and…

@Chris_SmithsJ Oh, I assumed this was a response to my tweet about all the evils of this admin. Only a few drafted vengeful tweets about footnotes 😉

Many of these moves are also both ludicrously stupid and patently unconstitutional. This is, of course, not an exhaustive list. I guess I just want to say that it's all awful and I'm furious. And if you feel the same way, you're in good company.

RT @classicvirtues: “At a minimum, 300 babies that wouldn’t have had HIV, now do,” one current USAID worker estimates.” As we continue to…

Oh, found it!! Looks like I just needed to complain online. How about "All my life, I have been skeptical, but when I came to this, it was like the clouds parted" from SoG Xu Guangqi? I think I only researched in English, but I can't find it anywhere.