-
How to Battle Sadness
“Sorrow can be alleviated by a good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.” -Attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas- I thought today was a good day to share a little wisdom from one of my favorite Saints, Thomas Aquinas, especially for those days when you aren’t exactly feeling it. You will find some who will point out that St. Thomas Aquinas didn’t EXACTLY come up with this quote above — the man wasn’t known for his pithy statements — but one could say that his treatment of the remedies for sorrow in the Summa Theologicae definitely support the sentiment. That’s right: one of the world’s greatest philosophical minds (in…
-
The Winter of Our Discontent…a.k.a How to Make Good Choices in Life
“Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of York;And all the clouds that lour’d upon our houseIn the deep bosom of the ocean buried.” William Shakespeare, Richard III Can somebody please make it stop snowing? Really! I’m absolutely done with all the cold and the slush and the ice? How about you? For those of us in the Midwest, summer is but a figment of our imagination — a promise of better days, soaked with sunshine and berries and every good thing. February, on the other hand, is the absolute worst of all the winter months — and so we buckle up and we grow…
-
Blue Monday — We Got This!
Blue Monday is a name given to the day in January (typically the third Monday of the month) reported to be the most depressing day of the year for those in the Northern Hemisphere. So, according to my calculations, today promises to be the most depressing day of the year for most of the people reading this post — yay for us — not really. 🙁 You know, the Church foresaw Blue Monday way before Wikipedia made it a thing — it’s called Ordinary Time — and coming off of the highs of the Christmas Season can be hard for all of us. The parties are over, family has returned to their…
