Outside The Asylum

Taylor Marshal has a reputation for being a bit of a traditionalist- but this history of Our Lady of Guadalupe, stretching back to the *first* appearance of a statue carved by St. Luke himself, is well worth listening to.  Click through to the blog post, and then click on this sentence to go to the link.

In September, the Senior Peer Outreach Line went live for Washington County older adults. Community Counseling Solutions operates the line, which provides free peer support by phone to reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation for adults 55 years old and up. Seniors are matched with a friendly peer specialist and receive regular phone calls that offer compassionate support and connection. One Washington County resident shared that she dreaded the wintertime, but not this year now that she receives weekly calls from her peer support specialist. The program is referral-based, not a published number that community members call directly. Call Community Counseling Solutions at 1-833-736-4676 to make a referral. Or for more information, contact Washington County’s Kera Magarill at 503-846-3105.

What is really at the center is bias. The bias of ecoterrorism that always focuses on the United States as the great evil. We all need to plant 30 trees a year. But it doesn't help to criticize the people who are *already* planting 30 trees a year. What you need to do is target those people who are not yet planting 30 trees a year. Right now, the real reason that the Trump Administration withdrew from the Paris accords is that they appeared to just be taking the pollution out of the United States, Europe, and Canada and moving it to India, China, Africa and South America- with NO solution to the actual problem. In fact, making the problem significantly worse, as companies moved troublesome processes overseas, while keeping low-labor low-pollution processes at home. And still, global warming increased to the point that it became global climate change, and in 2004, we passed the tipping point to where methane being released from Siberia and Northern Canada became the most c...

This post, found on ThemBeforeUs, kind of says it all .  When the point of family ceases to be children, selfishness takes over.

This was crossposted by accident from my Knights blog.  I'm leaving it here in case anybody in the Portland, OR area wants to enjoy some yummy blueberry pancakes at St. John Fisher from 10am-12:30pm on October 20th. Under the wise leadership of our Deputy Grand Knight Gene Andres, the breakfast at St. Clare's went off quite smoothly.  Thank you to all who volunteered.  Final results are: $515 Gross $358 Net $179 donated to St. Clare $179 kept for our council (money needed to cover Delta Drive activities next weekend- we hope anyway). Next Breakfast will be at SJF on October 20th

Tolerance says, "You must allow me to have my way." Love responds, "I must do something harder: I will plead with you to follow the right way, because I believe you are worth the risk.

Though my phone says I have less than 20 hours left, I'm still in facebook jail.  I suggest that this is why: The stigma has changed.  Changed greatly.  Now instead of pushing us to be better people, the stigma is against anybody who thinks there is a right way to live. Facebook community standards are self-contradictory- for they have become a form of hate speech.