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The Camelot Myth
“If I don’t have sex every day, I get a headache,” Kennedy used to tell people who would listen
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Civilization Devolved
I went alone for a long walk around my neighborhood after California’s self-quarantine advisory. A bit fatigued, I sat to rest on a bus-stop metal bench, the kind with handles between the seats. The traffic at this local intersection was now a tenth of the usual rush hour traffic. A Sprinter trolley pulled into the…
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The Banyan Tree
We visited the Hawaiian Islands in 1987 and took a tour of Lahaina, the former royal capital on Maui. In that small town, the activity was along Front Street lined with stores and restaurants, and packed with tourists. In the middle of the historic district, Banyan Court Park featured an exceptional banyan tree, which I later…
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His Hidden Signature
“God created all the stars, the magnificent heavens, the wonders of the Earth, his Name written in all creation, his hidden signature in everything,
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Communism as Religion
There is no word more dangerous than liberalism because to oppose it is a new unforgivable sin.”
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Today’s Rip Van Winkle
Our standard of living has improved more in the last 100 years than in all recorded history. Such rapid innovation is startling and wondrous. But it’s also worrisome — dare I say disturbing — to oldsters like me who daily face the challenge of new-fangled gadgets.
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Double Cheeseburger
Trappist monks are remarkably long-lived and free of disease. Their abstemious fare, along with prayer, exercise, and fresh air, lengthens their lives through avoidance of chronic disease. In history many great epidemics and plagues that ravaged the neighboring countryside were stopped at the gates of an abbey (see A Popular History of the Catholic Church…
THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness 