My Commonplace Book

Samuel Morse was an American painter of portraits and historic scenes, the creator of a single wire telegraph system, and co-inventor, with Alfred Vail, of the Morse Code. He made the following observation about William Wilberforce.
Mr. Wilberforce is an excellent man; his whole soul is bent on doing well for his fellow man. Not a [...]

I slept restlessly last night. This morning I woke fitfully, my mind and emotions wrestling with the upcoming challenges of the day and of the week. Finally dragging myself to the coffee pot, I prepared my caffeine fix and plopped down into a chair on the porch of our Ft Collins’ apartment. [...]

C.S. Lewis wrote that the “meaning of life is to be a saint, one who know and loves and eats truth, goodness and beauty.”
I’ve begun to study the Greek triad of virtues: truth, goodness and beauty. Christians, long before C.S. Lewis, recognized the “theology” behind these Platonic ideals. From the church fathers [...]