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- Sep 28, 2026
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Seeing the invisible: Rembrandt’s St. Matthew and the Angel (opens the original)
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It’s almost as if Rembrandt, in a sort of artistic miracle, has discovered how to paint the invisible. In 1661, Rembrandt painted five different portraits of apostles. One of those is an elderly St. Matthew sitting at his writing desk, pen in hand, while an angel whispers into his ear. At the time he made this painting, Rembrandt was an aging man himself. In his mid-50s, the great artist was financially insolvent and living with his son (who is probably the model for the angel in the painting).
How to survive dropping off your child at college (opens the original)
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I take comfort in the fact that my parents survived the experience. Other parents seem to have managed, too ... I think I owe my mother an apology. When my parents dropped me off for college, I blissfully unpacked my things, waved goodbye, and happily enjoyed my newfound freedom. To me, it was an adventure and I didn’t think anything of it. No homesickness. No nostalgia. I’m sure I didn’t call home enough. I was on my way into the future and having the time of my life. Now that I’m a parent myse
Dealing with the person who is rude to you (opens the original)
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Do I really want my feelings and behavior dictated to me by other people? And doesn’t Our Lord say something about loving even our enemies? Unless you’ve become a hermit, you probably interact with all sorts of people during the course of a day. Some of those people are rude. There’s the driver who tailgates the car in front of them and refuses to yield for a merge, the person with main-character-syndrome who walks directly down the middle of the bike path and doesn’t move to make way for oncomi
Never be afraid of making mistakes (opens the original)
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Of course we all make mistakes. It’s to be expected. The important thing is how we react. On balance, my life is probably more a series of mistakes than it is actual good decisions. I feel like I’m constantly blundering about, pretending I know what I’m doing but, deep inside, the truth remains, adamant and firm, that even into middle-age I am still in the process of figuring out exactly who I am, where I’m going, and why I do the things I do. Mistakes are constant. There are the “big” mistakes
Wendell Berry on how to find peace (opens the original)
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We will never gain peace by fighting against our place and our people. Back in 1987, Wendell Berry wrote an essay titled "Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer” that caused quite a stir. In it, he explains that he is perfectly happy with his typewriter. He understands that the old typewriter isn’t as efficient as a new computer. It requires corrections and re-typing when he’s putting together an essay for publication, whereas on a computer it’s simply a matter of using the delete key. Berry expla
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