Flavor Is the Price of Tomatoes’ Scarlet Hue, Geneticists Say – NYTimes.com. Just an interesting article on how the need for uniform size, shape and color (because of shipping) has a price – the loss of flavor and a variety of flavors. You can also hear/read a parallel article at NPR.
Syuzanna Avetisyan – somewhere on Google+
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As Christian we are Pentecost people gifted in the Spirit: There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God – writes St Paul in the 1 Corinthians. But these gifts of service and work – all stemming from the same Grace – all gifted in order to build up the Body of Christ – these gifts are founded upon the deeper gifts of the Spirit given: wisdom, understanding, counsel, courage, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord (cf. Isaiah 11). I have been thinking about the gift of courage. Continue reading
Chatting today with a parish staff member today, she was reminded of an older conversation when the diocesan faith formation director said that we always need to be conscious of what is being taught by our words and actions. With that intro, I leave you to this NY Times article: TBN Fight Offers Glimpse Inside Lavish TV Ministry – NYTimes.com.
As a Franciscan, one is reminded of the words often associated with St. Francis of Assisi: preach the Gospel at all times, use words if necessary. My religious formation must have been lacking, I am not familiar with the TBN gospel.
The Lively Morgue. A daily posting of something of interest from the NY Times “morgue.”
Storyboard. A fascinating article about the NY TImes storage “facility” lovingly referred to as the “morgue.”
from Nicholas Kristoff (NYT, Apr 26):
He was a 27-year-old former Marine, struggling to adjust to civilian life after two tours in Iraq. Once an A student, he now found himself unable to remember conversations, dates and routine bits of daily life. He became irritable, snapped at his children and withdrew from his family. He and his wife began divorce proceedings. This young man took to alcohol, and a drunken car crash cost him his driver’s license. The Department of Veterans Affairs diagnosed him with post-traumatic stress disorder, or P.T.S.D. When his parents hadn’t heard from him in two days, they asked the police to check on him. The officers found his body; he had hanged himself with a belt. That story is devastatingly common, but the autopsy of this young man’s brain may have been historic…. read more
There are some things, once broken, that cannot be fixed in this life. May we take care not to break such fragile things and may we be compassionate with the love of God to those that are broken.
“See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed.” (1 John 3:1-2)
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