Good Morning Digital Neighbors! Happy Saturday ADD Irregulars, Friends & Refugees, Phamily & Dawn Patrol, Triggeratti, Fascinating People & Beautiful Bigots, Early Birds & Later Dayers, Supporters, Members, Conversants & Lurkers and all you Vagabonds who abound at Locals. 🌞
At Padre's, Phetasy & Rubin Report I have been posting memories, commentary and links from vintage Sesame Street clips from my childhood in the last week. Over at Triggernometry I don't repeat those post yet another time, I feel like it is too much spam, especially for any who follow me and see the same post at 3 different communities already. Saturdays tend to be different, I hit all the communities with the same morning thoughts. I bring this up because someone in the parish joined and followed me recently. She asked about all the notifications she was getting, I advised her to shut them off. Just go to the community, check your notification bell and scroll through the posts. If there is better advice to provide to others please feel free to add you comments. 😁
As Sesame Street fades in the background, one of the real gifts of being a child is asking questions. The desire to know, understand or at least appreciate experience is fundamental to the awakening mind. Cultivate awakening minds, they are precious gifts to the collective endeavor of humanity. Professor Feynman comes to mind as someone I have only discovered in recent years. If I had encountered him earlier in life, I must have missed his brilliance in my own distraction or disinterest. A few quotes from him and a few others for your Saturday consumption. Happy Saturday Digital Neighbors!
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. - Richard P. Feynman
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile. - Richard P. Feynman
The is no authority who decides what is a good idea. - Richard P. Feynman
The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do. - Malcolm Forbes
I had six honest serving me - they taught me all I knew: Their names were Where and What and When - and Why and How and Who. - Rudyard Kipling
No man becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. - Charles P. Steinmetz
Interesting old barn in Idaho - September 2011
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
Padre - Tom Miller invites you to a Coffee Talk, Speakeasies, Schmoozes, Tea Times, Afterhours and other gatherings.
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2026 Coffee Talk with the ADD Irregulars
Thursday, January 1, 2026
6:00 AM - 8:00 AM (CST)
Occurs every day starting 1/1 until 12/31/2027
Coffee Talk - Daily beginning at 6:00 AM Central Time Zone - USA
White Pilled Wednesday - A break from the heaviness of news and current events to focus upon things more personal & positive for the first hour of Coffee Talk.
Afternoon Chats - Most Tuesday, Friday & Sundays 2:00 PM Central
Other chats as posted in the community.
Happy Friday, Digital Neighbors!! Slept in a little this morning. Woke up at my ordinary time, hit the hour timer, and wandered back into short, incoherent dreamland. It was a good hour to try and get a little more rest after a long day yesterday. We had a good staff team-building day with personal prayer and then looking at the DISC tool as a way to appreciate our gifts as we work together for the good of our parish family.
Had a meeting in the evening to explore using our auditorium for an Emergency Overnight Shelter in the winter for the homeless and unhoused in our local area. Lots of potential, lots of work if that is to come to fruition. As I mentioned last night, this is where the rubber hits the road on personal charity. People feel comfortable giving money to support charities, but the possibility of hosting and staffing one is way out of the comfort zone for most. Prayer and time will tell.
Off to some “ifferisms” for your Friday cup of Joe.
If you get gloomy, just take an ...
The Beautiful
Said the Disciple to the Lover, “Sir, before I left the world I heard certain men who were held in high esteem and thought to know the will of the Beloved say that those who loved the Beautiful did not love the Beloved but loved idols, yet in the Garden of the Beloved we are ever striving to create beauty for the pleasure of the Beloved. Were they then speaking the truth?”
The Lover answered, “Those who said this had never glimpsed the form of the Beloved nor ever truly sought Him, for all beauty is but the reflection of the beauty of the Beloved, although seen very dimly as in a dark and faulty mirror, even as all goodness is a dim reflection of the goodness of the Beloved. So it is that those who love beauty and goodness recognize dimly in them the form of the Beloved and though often in ignorance those who are seeking the Beautiful and the Good are seeking after the Beloved.”
