Linda Morrison Durant

Catholic. Wife. Mother. Political philosophy nerd. 📚fanatic. Seeker of beauty, goodness, and truth. Living in Portugal. From Prince Edward Island, Canada.

[Linda Morrison Durant @elwing503]

Such an excellent Rorschach test…!

[juan @juanbuis]

i can’t believe someone solved recipe design decades ago and everyone just decided to ignore it

[Christopher Brown @caaronbrown]

@PaulinusOfTrier Here’s timing for you: it appears the New York Review of Books is republishing this edition next March:

https://t.co/L3UInBId2X

[Duncan Reyburn @duncanreyburn]

“We need to rest in a text’s essential unavailability; it is meant, first and foremost, to rest in itself, to be its own thing, to be something unmanipulated. It is no mere resource.”

Some thoughts on The Discourse™ and what it says about the meaning crisis.

[Linda Morrison Durant @elwing503]

@lukeburgis @moveincircles It was actually the choice of ducks - instead of the more obvious sheep(le) - that caught my attention: I wanted to believe there was more than artistic licence going on in that decision! (And, a solid self might be labelled an “odd duck,” so that worked as well)

[Royal Blue Raptor @RoyalBlueRapto1]

Nathan W. Pyle has done it again and I'm crying 🥹

[Linda Morrison Durant @elwing503]

@jkenney Alasdair MacIntyre was right: it’s emotivism all the way down.

[Fr. Thomas Petri OP @PetriOP]

Thinking more about this weekend’s Mass readings….

The Church believes in predestination—but not in the grim caricature many Catholics have been taught to fear. It means that before you ever sought God, He’d already willed to draw you into the life of His Son.

That’s why grace can feel like discovery: a desire to pray, sorrow for sin, or the recognition that Christ is worth more than everything competing with Him. We remember when faith became real, but that wasn’t when God began acting; it was when we first noticed.

Predestination isn’t fatalism. It’s God’s eternal love taking shape in time, until the person who thinks he’s found the hidden Treasure realizes that the Treasure has been seeking him all along.

[Linda Morrison Durant @elwing503]

“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and
love.”

— Simone Weil

[Catholicism in East Asia @TheChurchInAsia]

A painting of the Virgin Mary as Mother of the Church holding Christ, illustrated by Japanese Carmelite nuns from a monastery in Tsukigata, Hokkaidō, in the 1970s.

[Linda Morrison Durant @elwing503]

@FeserEdward I think Jacques Ellul’s propaganda theory laid the groundwork for BS by creating an all-pervasive environment indifferent to truth.

[Linda Morrison Durant @elwing503]

@kalezelden Can confirm it really helps, even as a retiree living in a place folks pay to visit. (My personal theory is that the issue you raise was a big reason pilgrimages become so popular!)

[Henry Shevlin @dioscuri]

“Our age of bronze is collapsing.”

“Oh no great Odysseus, what’s the cause?”

“Don’t be reductionist, Eurylochus. There’s no single cause. Persistent stressors on the palace economies, seismic activity, migration, disruption to the tin trade…”

[Automaton Rerum Novarum @rerumnovarumbot]

The working man, too, has interests in which he should be protected by the State; and first of all, there are the interests of his soul.

[Linda Morrison Durant @elwing503]

The metaphors write themselves…

[Penfold @elbow112]

Look at this pair of clever fkrs 👀 😆

[Linda Morrison Durant @elwing503]

@normonics I *have* to apologize… even though I left Canada 4 years ago: so sorry!

[Josh Hochschild @JoshHochschild]

One of my favorite passages from Saint Bonaventure has the sciences organized into nine and correlated to different combinations of the three persons of the Trinity:

Father - Natural: Causes of Being
+ Father - Metaphysics
+ Son - Mathematics
+ Spirit - Physics

Son - Rational: Principles of Knowing
+ Father - Grammar
+ Son - Logic
+ Spirit - Rhetoric

Spirit - Moral: Order of Living
+ Father - Ethics (individual)
+ Son - Economics (family)
+ Spirit - Politics (city/society)

[Fr. Thomas Petri OP @PetriOP]

Some thoughts on this weekend’s Parable of the Sower.

The four soils aren’t four fixed classes of people—and we practicing Catholics shouldn’t assume that we’re automatically the good soil.

Consider:

• A soul can hear Scripture, listen to preaching, and read spiritual books, yet never allow the Word to sink deeply within.

• Religious enthusiasm can be sincere and still remain shallow.

• Concern for the Church, the country, or the culture can become thorns when anxiety crowds out Christ. Even concern about genuinely important things can become excessive and disordered.

• Every heart may contain all four kinds of soil.

• Hardened ground can be broken open. Stones can be removed. Thorns can be cut back.

• Good soil doesn’t produce the fruit by itself. The fruit comes from the seed—from what Christ has planted.

The parable begins not with our receptivity, but with the astonishing generosity of the Sower. Every kind of ground can be cultivated by Christ—even ground that presently seems barren.

And so the question isn’t simply, “Which soil am I?”

It’s: “Where has the Word taken root in me, and where do I still resist the work of the Sower?”

Christ is still sowing the seed.

[Linda Morrison Durant @elwing503]

I think @lukeburgis just wrote a book about this…

[Sky News @SkyNews]

"They can win whatever they want, I will not row."

Norway fan Emil Lappen explains to @BarbaraGSerra why he won't be taking part in the Viking row while watching his team play at the World Cup.

Latest: https://t.co/GlRk0LAyx2

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

[Linda Morrison Durant @elwing503]

McLuhan tetrad example!

[Karen X. Cheng @karenxcheng]

i hooked up a rotary phone from the 1920s to an AI agent, that replies on a mechanical display

it’s like a dumbphone without distracting notifications

here’s how i built this w/ @cursor_ai