Thursday Random

Quickly here. Still occupied with family duties.

But there’s a dramatic change of scenery coming – follow that adventure on Instagram (mostly Stories) if you like.

A couple of links:

• Much discussion of Vatican II, naturally enough. A couple of my posts here / here and here.
• There was a Eucharistic Procession in NYC marking the Council’s anniversary this week. Here’s Father Roger Landry’s homily.

• One of my regular reads is the Convivial Society. He write about the digital age with a focus on the human factor, of course, and particularly the concept of attention. Here he writes on emotion:

The rhythms of digital media rush me on from crisis to crisis, from outrage to outrage. Moreover, in rapid succession the same feed brings to me the tragic and the comic as well as the trivial and the consequential. So, it’s not just that I do not have the time or space to think deeply. I also do not have the time or space to feel deeply. I skim the surface of each emotional experience, but rarely can I plumb its depths or sound out its meaning. Consequently, I lose something of the richness of the emotions and miss out on their appropriate consolations. I feel enough to be overwhelmed and depleted, but I cannot inhabit an emotional experience long enough to see it through to its natural fulfillment with whatever growth of character or richness of experience that might entail.

Gotta go.