Christian Pipe Smokers

Since he's still overseas, I got my son's hammered 2017 Yaris smogged this morning. Surprisingly, it passed.

Back before that last woolly mammoth slid into the tar pits, Mac Barens tins and pouches were well represented on the shelves of Thrifty Drugstores around here.

I did smoke MacBarens long ago, he Latakia Blend, which Rusty didn't recognize as a real Latakia Blend, however the coins added to my pipe puffing education.
A pipe puffing compadre in the youth loved Plum Cake. Sutliff never did fare well with me, their flagship Mixture 79 struck me as being a ...

Here's the latest essay from Anthony Esolen in The Catholic Thing:

Worshiping the Clock and the Calendar
Anthony Esolen


The eternal does not “develop.” That is a contradiction in terms. So says our Lord, in the days before his Passion, when he spoke to his disciples of the last days and the ...

Praying.

Glorious Easter everyone.

Here's a poem by Charles Peguy I thought you might enjoy:

Night
Charles Péguy (trans. Robert Royal)

Oh sweet, oh great, oh holy, oh beautiful night, perhaps the most holy of my
daughters, night of the long robe, of the robe of stars
You remind me of that great silence that was in the world
Before ...