Sunday 9:47 AM View

 So far this morning: Rosary prayed (sorrowful on Sunday during Lent), Duolingo, class with Anhui, class with Toronto, secure an afternoon class with a student in Istanbul (a pretty Turkish accountant who observes Ramadan), make Mom coffee, rouse my son out bed, reading (where I extracted a NGD quote), the previous entry.

Will: have that class, take my son to the Mall, and go to 19:00 Mass for second scrutiny about light.

Fourth Sunday of Lent: 7:55 AM

 

Nice looking sky.

From NGD:

A revolutionary is a would-be civil servant. A rebel is

an actual reactionary

So what are you? A rebel or revolutionary? I’m a rebel I hope.  Though by economic circumstances, I am a revolutionary, not brave enough to be a rebel.

Saturday of the Third Week of Lent: 6:15 PM

 Got up at 5:00 AM. I did the sign of the cross.

I showered.

I prayed the Rosary.

I then did some Duolingo.

Brazil.  My student told me about  a dam where the drying of the water revealed a pile of cars that had been reported stolen to the insurance companies.

Beijing.  My young student had an amazing vocab.

I then got ready for a shift of fundraising.

I then drove there.

Behind me as I sat there I could see this:

The Canad Inns and my car.

Not too many customers at the shop.  So not much rejection. I read a lot on my phone: ten chapters of that Trollope novel that Alec Guinness got me to read, and Iran war analysis:  either the mullah regime will fall soon because it has sustained tremendous damage, or Iran has weathered the damage and USA will either be bogged down or forced to retreat from the Middle East.  I heard it said that the Iran attack will deter the Chinese from invading Taiwan because it has shown the CCP that America has great resolve and that the CCP will see that the USA doesn’t have the resources to defend Taiwan so it will have incentive to attack it.  While not reading, I didn’t raise much money.  I prayed the stations of the cross.

Then I went to Sobey’s to buy my Mom some whipped cream that she mentioned she had forgotten when going grocery shopping yesterday.  I took it home, hoping for some appreciation, and she asked me why I didn’t tell her I was going to Sobey’s.  I can’t win today.

Friday of the Third Week of Lent: 8:02 AM

 

My son Tony woke me up, around 4:00 AM, complaining of a sore neck.  I gave him some advil.

I’ve talked to Anhui province.  Later, I’ll talk to Brazil and Chile.

I’ll take my Mom shopping this aft. Tony doesn’t have school today. Professional Development Day.

No meat for me.  It’s Friday.  

To go or not to go to Friday Mass.  That is the question.

About 1.5 km’s from here, a person or persons went on a tire-slashing spree.  At least 75 cars had their tires slashed.  Who did it?  A drug addict, a homeless malcontent, teenagers having shits & giggles, or a tire company wanting business? I hope they catch the perpetrator(s).  Thankfully, I have a garage in which to park.  

—El cristiano no tiene nada que perder en una

catástrofe.

—The Christian has nothing to lose in a catastrophe.

An NGD quote.  I came across it today.  If it was a cheese stick, it would have knocked me over.  As it was, the quote hit me with the force of an anvil.  I have nothing to fear.  (Have to present it to my RCIA group).

Thanks to reading the Alec Guinness book, I am reading this Anthony Trollope novel:  The Way We Live Now.  Guinness said it was a wonderful book, and so far, in my reading of it, I am agreeing with him.  There are already passages I am highlighting.

It isn’t all bad in the world of news.  Chile has a new President who is classified as an ultra conservative Catholic.  I will have to ask my Santiago student about him. 

Thursday of the Third Week of Lent: 12:30 PM

 My Guéranger says it is the middle of Lent: the 20th day.  But this would have been over a hundred or more years ago.  This year, by my count, it is the 22nd day. So, it is more or less right that we’re halfway through this thang.

Talked to Anhui province and Moldova.  Will talk to Maple Ridge, Istanbul, Fredericton and Toronto.

I came across and snatched up a copy of “A Positively Final Appearance” by Alec Guinness.  He is a very drool writer.  He hated the Star Wars movie and was sometimes irked by the celebrity of it.  When a young boy told him that he had watched the movie a hundred times, Guinness told the boy to stop watching it The boy cried.

Finished reading a book about Japanese tea rooms.  Interesting.  Their ideas of beauty will always be with me.

I prayed the Rosary between five and six AM.

One of my online students will be seeing AC-DC in Santiago.  

Another student who is coming to Canada for study asked me if the stories he heard about homeless people in Canada were true.

Snow still on the ground unlike where my online students are residing.

Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent: 2:47 PM

 Why so late with an entry today?  I don’t know.  I was just sort of busy.

Busy doing what? Planning and Reading.

Pray the Rosary? Yes. The glorious mysteries.

Teaching Today? China. Santiago. Fredericton. Toronto. Taiwan. (Turkey cancelled)

Are you with the Doomers or the Applauders of the Iran War?  The Doomers. They are talking facts. The proponents are liking Trump’s seeming decisiveness and saying anti-Semite.

Yesterday? I had a RCIA class. We covered the Nicene Creed.

Shopping? Yes. This morning, I had to return a stovetop element I bought yesterday.  They questioned me saying the element I retuned was old.  But it was the one I bought yesterday I told them.  I got my refund.  If there was some funny business going on, it wasn’t me.

Waiting

 It is a kind of Jiangsu snow that’s falling at the moment.

Who or what am I waiting for?

Arnis Kaulins

 Hope Dad doesn’t mind if I pay my respects from the car.  Probably not a good idea to trudge through the snow.

Dad. I hope you’re in a better place.

Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent: 6:03 AM

 For what it’s worth — and it ain’t worth much — I get up at 5:00 AM every day.

I took the above photo but didn’t publish it till now.  What was I thinking?

This morning, i extended the Duolingo streak. I then talked to China from 6:00 to 8:00.

I drove my ambitious son to work.

I planned today’s classes.

I prayed the sorrowful mysteries.

Later: Maple Ridge, Toronto, and RCIA.

Not much needed

 I saw this on X.  It was inspiring to behold.