Author: David Schwarm
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Generosity
I doo not lend. I give. Hasn’t the good God been the first to give to me? – St John Vianney
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Santification
Prayer, good reading, the frequentation of the sacraments, with the proper dispositions, and particularly the flight of idleness – these are, believe me, the means of sanctify yourself. – St Paul of the Cross
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Battle in the Basement
Keys From The Golden Vault, live from Alakazam Comics in Irvine, CA, continues this week with the third heist, Reach for the Stars. The party descends into the basement and battles Markos Davros. They retrieve the book and scramble out of the mansion. Success! I ran this as a hack and slack crawl, since the…
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Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, Sean Cotter (Translator), Paul Boehmer (Narrator)
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu My rating: 4 of 5 stars The book got massive online reviews. It was good–very long and sometimes repetitive. The basic premise rules and the writing is very engaging, but it did (in the end) feel like one trick pony if such a thing is possible in a 600-page surrealist novel.…
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Summer of Bergman
2023-06-17 The Silence2023-06-24 The Seventh Seal2023-07-01 Hour of the Wolf2023-07-08 Fanny and Alexander2023-07-15 Cries and Whispers2023-07-22 Persona2023-07-29 Brink of Life2023-08-05 Scenes from a Marriage2023-08-12 Winter Light2023-08-19 Summer with Monika2023-08-26 Sawdust and Tinsel2023-09-02 Wild Strawberries
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God’s Creation
Every day, my love for the mountains grows more and more. If my studies permitted, I’d spend whole days in the mountains contemplating the Creator’s greatness in that pure air. – Bl Pier Giorgio Frassati
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Love
Love the poor tenderly, regarding them as your masters and yourselves as their servants. – St John of God
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Marianne Williamson
“Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.” —
David Given Schwarm 