Ham Homily

 

...But at Least the Weather is Good

 I just read this bit of terrible news this morning. It’s one of those life events that we’ll all remember where we were when we heard about it. I hope that it doesn't spoil your day. I'm trying to move past it.

 

It Takes Two to Play

 Playing catch with a youngster is a time-honored pleasure, except when it isn’t. What if you throw the ball to the kid and they walk off somewhere and just chew on it and never give it back? How many times would this have to happen before you took them to the orphanage and gave them up to a good home…or maybe a not-so-good home?

Random Thoughts

They say that nothing in the world is as life-affirming as the laughter of a child. So true, as this video shows.

 

If I had a time machine, I would either go back and start playing the piano as a child, or I’d go back five years ago and talk myself out of trying to learn it again.

 

Maybe I'm a freak, but even when things are going great for me, the best part of my day comes with the first four or five sips of my morning coffee. Shit goes south after that, to what degree depends.

 

U.S. Defense Department officials are now saying that ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed at a gender reveal party gone wrong at his home in the town of Atmeh, Syria.