"When you have to choose pride or self-pity or wisdom,
choose wisdom."
~ Truthful Grace
Thursday, May 28, 2026
PC Holiday Wishes
PC HNY
Best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most joyous traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, but with respect for the religious persuasion of others who choose to practice their own religion as well as those who choose not to practice a religion at all; plus a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the generally accepted calendar year 1998, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions have helped make our society great, without regard to the race, creed, color, religious, or sexual preferences of the wishes.
Disclaimer: This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others and no responsibility for any unintended emotional stress these greetings may bring to those not caught up in the holiday spirit.
Pope Leo’s new encyclical quotes Gandalf
Quote from America Magazine, "Why Pope Leo’s new encyclical quotes Gandalf: Literary images of hope and faith in ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ ", by James T. Keane, May 26, 2026, https://www.americamagazine.org/catholic-book-club/2026/05/26/why-pope-leos-new-encyclical-quotes-gandalf-literary-images-of-hope-and-faith-in-magnifica-humanitas/ as of 5/28/2026:
Of all the startling things one might find in a papal encyclical, a quote from J. R. R. Tolkien might take the cake. It’s not the first time a novel has made an appearance in such a format, as The Brothers Karamazov showed up in Pope Francis’ “Dilexit Nos,” but who would ever have thought The Lord of the Rings would appear in a magisterial document?
But there it is—a quote from Gandalf right smack in the middle of the text:
It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.
As for the horrifically mixed metaphor, blame Tolkien, not the pope.
Monday, May 04, 2026
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
~ John F. Kennedy,
President of the United States of America, 1961-1963
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