http://www.watsonhighlands.com Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:55:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.watsonhighlands.com/archives/554 She thinks the teddy bears all are poopy because they have little puff ball tails. She likes to take her arms out of her shirt through the collar... If you ask her question like "Madeline, are you a Pumpkin" she answered "No, I not a pummkin" and then giggles hysterically. http://www.watsonhighlands.com/archives/552 I totally have the pre-election day blues because it saddens me how this race has become so intensely personal between friends, family, acquaintances, that people have stopped talking to one another.  I know in light of recent events, I've had to work through a lot of this emotion myself. Jonathan ... http://www.watsonhighlands.com/archives/547 Suppose a group of five men decide to take a journey, M1 - M5. M1, believing there to be difficult times ahead, works hard and gathers food, and carries twice as much food with him as the others on the journey.  M2-M5, although capable of carrying more, do not do so. Midway through ... http://www.watsonhighlands.com/archives/536 This was the conversation Claire and I had during the car ride home from Church on Sunday.  My nieces Megan and Jane were also in the car with us and they couldn't contain their laughter. C:  Mommy... Daddy was SO annoying during Church. M:  Really?  What did he do? C:  He was screaming ... http://www.watsonhighlands.com/archives/533 I stated below that: This hedonistic consequentialism involves a closely-related individualism, at least in the United States, which states that no person can judge another person’s pleasure or pain, such that there is no objective standard for pleasure or pain (a utilitarian calculus, as it has been called). I am reading an interesting ... http://www.watsonhighlands.com/archives/519 A friend has cautioned that in my previous post on the speech of Saruman, some might have interpreted that as comparing Obama to the anti-Christ or the Dark Lord in entirety. I would limit that, however, to the abuse of the gift of speech towards evil ends. Obama says many ... http://www.watsonhighlands.com/archives/529 Among Catholics, it is a never-ending debate on how one is to live life. I found the following lesson from the Desert Fathers edifying: Also there were Paesius and Isaias, sons of a Spanish merchant. When their father died, they divided the estate they held, namely five thousand coins, clothes, and ... http://www.watsonhighlands.com/archives/523 Suddenly, another voice spoke, low and melodious, its very sound an enchantment. Those who listened unwarily to that voice could seldom report the words that they heard; and if they did, they wondered, for little power remained in them. Mostly they remembered only that it was a delight to hear the ... http://www.watsonhighlands.com/archives/520 Each Sunday night, I "mentor" a group of college students from a local college as part of a campus ministry program which works to instill good spiritual habits in college-age kids. We meet as a large group after evening Mass, then split into small groups, each headed by a mentor. ... http://www.watsonhighlands.com/archives/513