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St. Francis of Assisi
A free-ranging discussion of the stuff that interests me: politics, Catholicism, family life and what it means to be a man and a father in the Third Millennium. Bonum, verum, pulchrum.
St. Francis of Assisi, ora pro nobis
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Cowboy Coffee by John Senior
The immediate (practical) purpose of drinking a cup of coffee is to wash the biscuit down; the proximate (ethical), the intimate communion of, say, cowboys standing around a campfire in a drenching rain, water curling off their Stetsons, over yellow slickers, splashing on the rowels of spurs, their faces creased with squinting at the sun, drawing the bitter liquid down their several throats into the single moral belly of their comradeship. The remote (political) purpose of coffee at the campfire, especially in the rain, is the making of Americans — born on the frontier, free, frank, friendly, touchy about honor, despisers of fences, lovers of horses, worshippers of eagles and women. Nations have their drinks: the English, tea, the Irish, whiskey, the Germans, beer. Drinking coffee from a can is us. The ultimate purpose is mystical. To drink a can of coffee with the cowboys in the rain is as Odysseus said of Alcinous's banquet: "something like perfection."
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Wow! Great stuff, Ben. Glad to see I was able to get a comment in edgewise, 'cause you know, it gets pretty stinkin' crowded in your comboxes, ya know?!
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