Monthly Archives: January 2014

Thursday  January 30   Great Lakes Ice A friend sent me this article from MLive.  I reverses a trend that had been going on for a few years, less and less ice cover on the big lakes meant that sunshine … Continue reading →

Wednesday January 29 – Beloved Community Weather.com says that it’s +1º at 7:20 am, heading up to 17º.    Sunny and windy.    Back to work. Today’s post is a reminder that a Student-Life-led  committee has planned events and on-campus posters … Continue reading →

Monday January 27 Last week Provost Zarkowski  posted an invitation for a Sexual Conduct Policy Workshop this coming Friday afternoon at 3:00 in the PDR.  It’s one of three events offered by Dr Harry Brod (the other two are Thursday … Continue reading →

Friday, January 24, 2014 Some friends live in Stockholm, a lot closer to the Arctic Circle than we are in Motown; both cities have cold snaps today. We have 2 hours and 12 minutes more daylight than they. My friends … Continue reading →

In The Spiritual Exercises  St. Ignatius teaches various methods of prayer.  One of the most important he calls “Repetition.” (“Attention should be paid to some more important places in which I have found understanding, consolation, or desolation.” Sp Ex # 118). … Continue reading →

Wednesday January 22  Anastasia Baburova  poet and journalist and human rights fighter. I’m not sure how this post took the two turns it did.  Turn # 1, looking out an east-facing window in Lansing Reilly a few minutes ago I … Continue reading →

Starting around 1956 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. began to call the world to create the “Beloved Community.”  He explained:  “I am not talking about some emotional bosh when I talk about love . . . you love those who … Continue reading →

Friday  January 17,  “what amazes you with joy”  I’ve found the week’s news wore me down some.   Lots of slam-bang excitement at the new-look Cobo Center’s auto show;  a roller-coaster ride with Detroit’s bankruptcy proceedings as its process approaches … Continue reading →

Thursday  January 16,   Two Penguins Enough hard nosed poetry,  flinty and anvil hard.  Not all work life is tough;  some parts are just funny. Two Penguins Video Hint:  play this 4-5 times; Have a good day. john st sj

Wednesday January 15 “like a human being” Jean Vanier is 86 now, the son of the 19th Governor General of Canada. He served with the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II and received a PhD … Continue reading →