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Richard S. Meloche

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10 months

My freshman daughter @UofDallas texted me this image. It might cause a modern parent concern, but it gives me great joy! Aristotle requires a good stimulant.

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Another convert to the rural life. Saving the culture one Dominican at a time. #catholicsunderacow

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11 months

Prepping for a lecture at Clear Creek Monastery. Alcuin and Aquinas on Friendship.

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Clear Creek Monastery is positively medieval.

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9 months

There is little hope in saving civilization or religion without a return of contemplatives to the land. - Fr. Vincent McNabb

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Teaching metaphysics, epistemology, and logic to our aspiring deacons. They are now thoroughly grounded in philosophical realism and ready for theology. #thehighernevernegatesthelower

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Enjoying the afternoon Thomistizing with Fr. Bonaventure Chapman, OP.

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10 months

@apgarlick @UofDallas She’s livid.

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With all the political/social/ecclesial agitation and disorder, I find great solace (and rest) in my ordered fields and plots.

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9 months

A good education is paradoxical. It is at once both rigorous and leisurely; fulfilling yet leaving the soul unsatisfied. It is very much like an authentic feast. My @utulsa Honor Students ‘feasting’. Impressive students / impressive program @jennfrey

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1 year

Aquinas defines effeminacy as an unwillingness to put aside pleasure in order to pursue what is arduous. The solution, according to Fulton Sheen, is "pain and responsibility".

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@EudaimoniaEsq It seems modern man is so effeminate and pusillanimous that he will praise a strong will even if that will is vicious and destroys others. We have no idea what it means to be an excellent human anymore.

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Forget Achilles, Hector, and Diomedes, as my beard whitens, I’m more and more convinced that the man of excellence in Homer’s Iliad is, without doubt, Nestor.

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A rare spotting: students in their native habitat. @jennfrey TU’s Honors students discussing Homer’s Iliad at my farmstead. Thanks to @Beautynthefeast for the toothsome fare!

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9 months

Day 1: lamb spiedini. Breed, born, raised, fattened, culled, butchered, cooked and eaten on farm.

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Disordered passions and agitated intellects are ordered, suggests Alcuin, not by words which have their limit, but by music which softens hearts and restores peace in the soul. via @AlcuinInstitute Can music aid in the the cultivation of virtue?

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What a fantastic conversation over a vital text. Homer helps us do the human thing right. Thanks to @HarrisonGarlic1 , @ccpecknold and @PatrickDeneen .

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9 months

@TheGreatB00ks @PatrickDeneen @ccpecknold Dr. Meloche ( @RichardSMeloche ) and I had a great time recording this episode - what a phenomenal conversation. Dr. Deneen's grasp of the Odyssey is really impressive, and I'm delighted he was able to help introduce the Odyssey for Ascend.

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10 months

Waiting for students…a beautiful morn for Augustine!

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10 months

A favorite of mine. Join ⁦ @AlcuinInstitute ⁩ on wed night to discuss.

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1 year

Nothing is more solicitous of contemplation than the still of the early morn.

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11 months

Spent the weekend in the clouds teaching Homer (Iliad), Aristotle (metaphysics), and Plato (Crito). Now *longing* for the ash of my spade and Oklahoman dirt under my nails. Contemplation is rooted in the soil.

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There is no better place to think than under a cow.

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There is good reason why God ordered Adam to till the soil and why Christ Himself willingly took up the yoke of the craftsman. Hard sustained manual labor has – to borrow a phrase from Josef Peiper – “existential richness.”

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Fall nights in Oklahoma are right for Plato and burley.

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@HarrisonGarlic1 I'd be less concerned if our heads were merely bent on account of "earth and table." These things are at least true realities and natural goods. Insidiously, our modern necks are turned upon the fictitious and foul. Not acting beastial but believing we are gods.

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“Freedom is the ability to pursue the good”. Full house of Catholic educators @DioceseofTulsa @AlcuinInstitute listening to Bsp. Konderla lecture on the morality of the classroom.

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10 months

@RCAnnaKate @UofDallas Aristotle would disagree.

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11 months

Pre-liberal education. Tending sheep (quickly) teaches boys that not all tasks can be completed by sheer force.

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@omnialnchristo Agreed.

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9 months

Prepping for a class on Catholic Spirituality. Beginning with Eros and Beauty.

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I'm a bit of a stoic, but when some students that I taught 10+ years ago dropped by with this ⬇️⬇️⬇️in hand, I was *almost* brought to tears.

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Last year's Martinmas celebration. The post-slaughter feast. It is good to be a peasant-Catholic!

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9 months

Enjoy the most marvelous mystery! Verbum caro factum est! Merry Christmas!!

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Our Lady of Prompt Succor (pron. 'sucker' by locals); trans. Our Lady of quick help. Her intercession saved the city of New Orleans on two occasions.

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No freeloaders.

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If we want Christ to reside in our minds and hearts, He must *first* reside in our imaginations.

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The modern industrialized society and the natural agrarian society produces altogether different men. - Pius XII

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1 year

And it provides a beautiful image of what a harmonious, well-ordered marriage ought to look like. Franziska's silent love gives Franz the moral fortitude to do what is right. Should be a requirement in all marriage-prep classes.

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Finally showed the teens A Hidden Life. …I remembered how beautiful is was, but still — it really is SUCH a beautiful movie. Beautifully shot, beautiful music, beautiful true story. The sound alone tells a story. Add it to your watch list if you haven’t yet seen it.

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St. Thomas, in his commentary on Aristotle’s Politics, states that it belongs to the philosopher to be concerned with the knowledge of livestock and tillage. What I'm doing when not philosophizing...

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10 months

One of these eggs is ‘labeled’ organic and free-ranged, the other ‘is’ organic and free-ranged. One is a ‘product’ from the industrial food system, the other is ‘food’ raised on a domestic scale. A difference in kind, not degree.

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In 1975 my mother beseeched the newly canonized Elizabeth Ann to intercede on behalf on her gravely ill child. In gratitude, my mother promised to name her next child after her. 18 months later I was baptized Richard Seton. Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton … Ora pro nobis!

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Happy Feast of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

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11 months

A boy *needs* to be tested; and the test *needs* to have the real potential for dangerous consequences. This *need* is hard for a mother and litigious school personnel to understand and even harder for them to allow. Thus the *need* for boys to have unsupervised outdoor play.

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1 year

In the classical liberal arts tradition teaching is an art or craft, which as the name implies (articulum), means the joining together of things not joined in nature. What is being joined is the mind of the student to reality. The teacher oughta maketh men sane!

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11 months

Some "X" technocrat decided that an image of a side of beef - harvested lovingly on my farm with my sons - was "gratuitous gore" and blocked my account all weekend. @elonmusk is this simple ignorance of reality by a bureaucrat or is there something else going on?

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Richard S. Meloche

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9 months

The last oldschool barbershop in America. No women, hipsters, or hair products. A place of witty verbal combat and common sense. My boys intuitively love coming here. It’s a space that is ours.

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10 months

First time hearing Josef Pieper referenced in a homily!!!

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10 months

My homily at our Cathedral this morning ⬇️⬇️⬇️ In Defense of Self-love In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. It is good that you love yourself. Every human has a primal desire to be satiated. We want to feel whole. We want to be loved. We

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So many ‘classical’ schools flounder because they fail to lay the right foundation. The ‘gymnasium’ is essential component of any classical curriculum. Without immediate/raw exposure to reality there is no wonder; without wonder there is no wisdom.

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11 months

It is not by happenstance, that Augustine ascends to mystical union while in a garden.

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1 year

Our pilgrimage chaplain - Fr. Alessandro Calderoni - taking things into his own hands.

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8 months

My new favorite spot for late morning writing. Find yourself an ol’school neighborhood pipe shop if you can!

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9 months

Some evenings demand a bonfire.

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1 year

The Sacrament of Confession is a conversation which restores our capacity to converse.

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1 year

Me and Percy trying to avoid the malaise of everydayness.

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11 months

Happy feast day @AlcuinInstitute . Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary….ora pro nobis!

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1 year

Thrilled to be teaching the wisdom of the ancients this semester in the TU Honors College.

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8 months

Day 2: lamb gyros. Home raised leg of lamb on Indian fry breed (fried, of course, in lard rendered from home raised pigs), topped with winter greens and tzatziki sauce made, in part, from the milk of Daisy (our milk cow).

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10 months

A nice evening for a stroll.

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1 year

The modern project of forming society without the traditional domestic farm, however well intended, has had, and will continue to have, a shallowing effect on civic life and discourse. #returntotheland

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9 months

Want to fast? Then first learn how to feast: 1. Reclaim leisure; 2. Reunite feasting to liturgy; 3. Befriend those who love well; 4. Give a toast; 5. SACRIFICE: “cheap/easy foods” are anathema to authentic festivity; think meat wrapped in a plentitude of subcutaneous fat!

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11 months

Pig crossing.

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1 year

Another convert to the rural life. Vice Dean of Honors College @utulsa . #catholicundercows

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1 year

Had a wonderful time at St. Stephen's Basilica, NO. @msgrnalty gave a fantastic tour of this sublime gem of the archdiocese. Form + Function = Sublimity!

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Bucolic bliss.

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Rosy-fingered Dawn.

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"The sphere in which we live is becoming more more artificial, less and less human, more and more – I cannot help saying it – barbarous." (Romano Guardini, Letters from Lake Como)

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From the fresh air and soil I descend. Hoping to receive only mockery and laughter. Prisoners I am told can be quite murderous...

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11 months

The time when kings go forth to battle.

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10 months

Our home ‘altar’. The crucifix is my great paternal grandfather’s. The back is inscribed with his name: “Hercule Meloche”. Piety ought to extend upwards through our forebearers to the divine.

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Walker Percy's Moviegoer is an extended -smartly written - narrative of Plato's cave analogy. Binx alone has the nerve to turn his head and question the artificial shadows being cast by modernity. Who else loves Binx Bolling?

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1 year

The footwear of the professor-farmer. A good quality leather boot repels both chalk dust and manure.

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1 year

@dlendman2 Hence, better to use the language of Holy Mother Church: "periodic continence" (CCC #2370 ).

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1 year

Prof. Hitz is right of course, but there is a deeper more primordial problem...The cultivation of minds and the establishment of communities animated by charity requires souls with lively imaginations! This is not a problem solved by method/curricula but by exposure to reality.

Zena Hitz

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I continue to see and hear terrible higher ed news, but I am persuaded that there are only two solutions to all of our woes: 1. Intellectual zeal. Without it, nothing works. That's what holds us together. 2. Love your neighbor as yourself. Build real communities.

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"There is thus good reason why God ordered Adam to till the soil and why Christ Himself willingly took up the yoke of the craftsman. Hard sustained manual labor has – to borrow a phrase from Josef Peiper – 'existential richness.'" - my recent article "In Defense of Manual Labor"

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1. - the good life = participation in Eternal Beatitude 2. - man can begin to taste this happiness (albeit imperfectly) through living a contemplative life 3. - contemplation involves operations other than intellect and will 4. - therefore happiness = the contemplative farmer

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9 months

A most fitting way to celebrate the Nativity!

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THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS PARTY WITH MUTUALS Here’s how I’d revel in Christmas cheer if I had my way: 1) All mutuals fly to Vermont as festivities are hosted in @OldHollowTree 's High Wood 2) Upon arrival, @Athens_Stranger leads a boot camp so we can A) learn his secrets, and B)

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“Habitus” does not = “habit.” The latter conveys a mechanical, unreflective, repetitious act. The former suggests a permanent disposition whereby a soul delights in reason’s liberating influence.

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Tulsa Thomism! This is going to a great conference. Some of the best Thomists are coming to town. Thrilled to be paneling a discussion on how to teach the Doctor Communis!

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🚨🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨🚨 Are you a grad student in philosophy, theology, politics, literature, or history and work on the thought or life of Thomas Aquinas? Want to hang out with Thomists in Tulsa? A thread 🧵(1/5)

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The most difficult thing about making prosciutto in your home kitchen is waiting.

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Save the date! @AlcuinInstitute Oct 7th @ Holy Family Cathedral, Tulsa. We will be awarding Dale Ahlquist, president of @chestertonsoc for his work promoting the 'Apostle of Common Sense' and the renewal of Catholic schools thu @ChestertonAcad .

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@HarrisonGarlic1 We (moderns) see everything through the prism of power. One of the many benefits of befriending the ancients is that it corrects this shortsightedness. #readthegreatbooks

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Heard a wonderful homily this weekend from @DioceseofTulsa priest. Preached on sacrifice, the horrors of contraception, and the need for Catholic couples to be radically open to the gift of children. We shouldn’t be timid to preach the good news!

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Check out Dcn Garlick’s latest!

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1 year

"Soft and fat-souled, man not only disbelieves in his own greatness but begins to hate greatness in others. It is his fate to wallow, pallid and corpulent, deadened to eros and untouched by courage." My new article for the @josias_rex :

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@ccpecknold Thats b/c the scientific advancements and technologies remove the modern man from reality.

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@CatholicLand Form + function = sublimity

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@RewiretheWest Alcuin knew this! Reality renews and heals.

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Modern man is intemperate, but the greater - more culturally destructive - disorder is to be found in his flaccid irascible appetite. “I will slay thee, and take away thy head from thee…”

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When we are divorced from the land and rural life, great texts lose their gravity. What do modern urbanites do with Homer comparing the Ajaxes too horned oxen yoked to the plow? Shallow imaginations = shallow reading.

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16 weeks with the medievals. This is when intellects begin to shed their modern biases. @jennfrey @utulsa

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"Let us rise with gladness. The cockerel rouses those abed, and scolds all tired laggards, shouting down who would resist." - St. Ambrose

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The flock at Southdown Cottage.

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Day 6: home rolled egg roles stuffed with shiitake mushrooms.

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Modern man isn't able to fast because he has lost the art of feasting!

Based in Christ

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Why has fasting become a largely extinct spiritual discipline among Christians (from what I can tell)?

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The more completely secular our civilization is the more untrue, more transient and more sterile it is.

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1 year

A few more days until we're off on pilgrimage! I'll be leading a bus load of merry wayfarers to NOLA to visit the most *sacramental* city in the nation. Happy to have Walker Percy as our guide.

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Prepare thy self: Wed., Fri. & Sat. are Ember Days. 👇👇👇 Ember Days & the Restoration of the Catholic Imagination

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@ccpecknold @nunblogger Chad, et al., Perhaps this will be more to your liking. Printable pdfs on resource page.

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Character through calluses. Buy a broken down truck and spend all summer with your teenage boy under the hood.

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Wife needed some Italian sausage for her stuffing. A good excuse to butcher a whole hog.

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@johnhboyer @UofDallas Ha!

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If the materialist is able to lift his eyes above the billboards and gaze upon the grandeur of the sky; or witness the brilliance of stars in defiance of the droning lights, he would be unable see anything other than groupings of various particles and gases. How sad & pathetic.

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Day 4: Aracini. Traditional Sicilian peasant fare. Deep fried rice balls filled with homemade bolognese sauce and freshly stretched mozzarella.

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