Linda Morrison Durant
@elwing503
Catholic. Wife. Mother. Political philosophy nerd. 📚fanatic. Seeker of beauty, goodness, and truth. Living in Portugal. From Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Yep, I’m hooked on these So clever and funny Back soon. Helen. (Downstairs helping Dr Stee 👨🏻🍳🌸🐝)
I wrote about the lack of administrative support for the liberal arts in @nytimes. The standard story we hear is that students don't want it. But a darker reality is that even when it wins big with students and donors it loses with those in power. nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opi…
For a period in my life I reluctantly attended hokey, irreverent, bad liturgy. I was led to believe, perhaps even by well-meaning people, that my desire for beautiful liturgy should be suppressed and that the bad liturgy could do a lot of good for my soul—growth in humility, etc.…
Chateaubriand observes somewhere that when the peak fever of the Revolution had passed, most people simply didn’t talk about it. The human mind couldn’t process the scale of the madness and violence that had overtaken the world. I think the same will be true as we exit from the…
The special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it.
Tucked away in a rocky mountain in southeast France is a cave formed by natural erosion called La Sainte-Baume, one of the oldest Christian pilgrimage sites in the world, where Mary Magdalene is believed to have lived for 30 years. catholicnewsagency.com/news/265491/in…
"I asked, 'Have you seen him whom my soul loves?' Scarcely had I passed them, when I found him whom my soul loves." #SongofSong3 St. Mary Magdalene, pray for us! #MaryMagdalene #DiscipleofJesus #Icon #MadonnaHouse [Icon by ©Marysia Kowalchyk, MH]
Ok but I don’t want a car that lets me get in sideways and then rotates me, I want a simple car that doesn’t kill the engine at a light, doesn’t have a big screen, has physical dials and handles, runs on gas, is low-fuss, and doesn’t cost a ton.
This is why American car makers want Chinese cars banned from the U.S. market. Because they want to continue selling us overpriced vehicles with fewer features.
New York Times reporters Brian M. Rosenthal and Julie Tate have just published this new article: “ A Push for More Organ Transplants is Putting Donors at Risk.” They document the MANY cases where organ procurement pushed to harvest the organs of people who were still alive. For…
Every true encounter is free and cannot be bought: whether it is with God, with others, or with nature. We must simply become guests: make space and also ask for it; welcome and allow ourselves to be welcomed. We are called not only to give, but also to receive. #Angelus
“Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”#Luke10 #16thSunOT [image: Unfinished Arrangement by ©Donna Surprenant, Madonna House]
The centrepiece is the extraordinary Frauenkirche, one of the most remarkable churches in post-medieval Europe. About a third of the masonry was reclaimed from the ruins of the original building, which was destroyed in the War.
This is Eclipse. Every day she leaves her house, by herself, and takes the bus downtown to the dog park where she spends a couple of hours getting exercise and making friends, and then she takes the bus back home again. She even has her own bus pass attached to the collar. It…
Strap in, Turchin enjoyers, things may be about to get lively
Laughs in Canadian
Imagine a minimal store named “Store” that sells nothing but products with no branding whatsoever.
Little Owl going full dive commit 🚀💯 #wildlifephotography