Good Morning Friends & Digital Neighbors! Happy Monday to all! I hope you all had a great weekend. I had a very good one, I can't complain about much of anything at all. I thought I would do a week of Star Trek Quotes. I don't consider myself a Trekkie, I don't remember enough details about episode numbers, special guests, things about all the ships or races that inhabit the trek universe. I like the story of Star Trek and the vision of Gene Roddenberry.
Circa 1971 - Five year old Little Tommy is watching TV on a small black & white GE TV that belonged to his older brother Joe. Saturday Night after dinner was Star Trek, Roller Derby & Creature Feature. Those evenings only lasted for a few years before the flood came in 1973 and washed everything away and Joe graduated from High School to hit the road working for Burlington Northern Railroads. While short, I have fond memories of those couple of years and the enjoyment of Saturday night with Jerry & Joe. The most enduring part of those evenings ...
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 ...
Happy National Autistic Pride Day! Here's hoping you're not too socially awkward to find celebrating with others exhausting. What an odd thing to proud of.
Anyway, here's some terrible memes from which you're cordially invited to choose your (least?) favourite.
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
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Good morning, Digital Neighbors! A blessed Sunday to all you fellow Disciples of the Risen One, sons and daughters of Our Heavenly Father, and vessels of the Holy Spirit. As our nation celebrates Father’s Day, I thank God for the fathers in my life. I thank Him for my biological father, Roy, who overcame many hardships to become a man of faith and service. His life was far from perfect; he battled the inheritance of a highly broken family and struggled with alcoholism during his middle and later years. By God’s grace he found sobriety, and I am deeply grateful that I was able to know him as a friend in the last decade of his life. I thank God for him often and pray that he has found redemption and healing.
I also thank God for the many good men He placed in my life who were truly fatherly in their mentoring and guidance. Some were bosses from my younger years, others were professors or priests I encountered during formation and in my early years of ministry. I am particularly thankful ...
