*****New, insanely provoking post!!!*****

An image that, for no reason at all, suddenly started into my brain (and lodged there).  I am hoping this is temporary.

In much feminist theory, it is held that men are principally visual, whereas women are more tactile.  Recent studies on the brain-stimulus patterns excited in men by pornography tend to bear this observation out, and as one who is susceptible to the extraordinary gravitational tug of the well-displayed decolletage, I must say that the idea has the ring of truth for me.  This observation is combined with the idea of

During his school break from his studies in Germany, my son Brendan flew to Oman to visit his uncle in Muscat.  He was there for the cyclone that struck, but flew out tonight.  Some of the photos in his album are of the mountains, but others depict the devastation visited by the cyclone, which was the first in the Persian Gulf in living memory.  Just lucky, I guess.

Today’s the Feast of Corpus Christi, when we Catholics celebrate the mystery of the Eucharist, and the things that bring us together rather than divide us as a Community in Christ with all of the others.  One of our number who lives near Corpus Christi, Texas, continues to struggle with his own fleshly trials, and I ask that you keep him in your thoughts and prayers. More, though, I want