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This year marks the 75th anniversary of the firebombing of Tokyo and the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum in LA @jamuseum entitled Under a Mushrooom Cloud features art by Yuri Mason.
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First Fridays of each month were reserved for Master Appreciation Day. All day long his family and servants would vie to demonstrate their appreciation. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Begging for Scorcese to make this movie. There’s even a part for @JamesMartinSJ americamagazine.org/faith/20…
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The master bade his footman to don a disguise and linger about the marketplace that he might learn what the merchants were saying about him. “Mind you to remain inconspicuous!” he warned. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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“As you exit this sacred spot pledge yourselves to be a kind of sacrament—vibrant symbols that speak to the fears of a broken world. Vow not only to joy with all whose laughter is richly human but to weep with all whose pain parallels your own.”—Walter Burghardt SJ (d 2/26/2008)
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In exchange for a penny a naked beggar gave the master his small begging bowl. Immediately the bowl began to grow, becoming so heavy that he could barely lift it. “It will always exceed your desire,” the beggar explained. “It will never be filled.” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Discovering that several witnesses to his “perfect conversation” with the Presiding Judge were still unaccounted for, the master upbraided his henchmen. “I should replace the lot of you,” he said. “Do I literally have to do everything myself?” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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A cigarette, casually discarded, had prompted the master’s happy discovery that the estate was situated above a rich source of natural gas. And from that moment, when his coachman’s son took the blame, he was certain that Fortune would always be his friend. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Six of those and many more in the @OrbisBooks Modern Spiritual Masters Series, plus Berrigan, Sobrino, and more in your recommended list. orbisbooks.com/?subcats=Y&pc…
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Feast of Fra Angelico(d 1455) who was beatified in 1982. Many of his frescos adorn the walls of his Dominican friary near Florence, featuring Dominican saints (dressed identically to the viewers), inviting a similar attitude of devotion.
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The master’s stamina was legendary. The secret lay in part with the special vitamins prescribed by his physician and also in his capacity to take rejuvenating cat naps at a moment’s notice. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Thank you. Not everyone appreciated Tolstoy’s decision to forego writing epic novels in favor of short moral tales. Likewise, I am sure there are those who feel he is wasting his genius on tweets. But he feels this is a medium suited to our times. Hence: #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Perils of thinking outside the box: Exhibit A, Giordano Bruno, d Feb 17 1600.
Giordano Bruno was one of the first humans to intuit and thus consciously occupy the universe in its full immensity. Thus he seemed to his contemporaries to be like an alien from a different world. And so they killed him. Charged with heresy, burned in Rome on Feb 17 1600.
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Whenever his wife asked unwelcome questions about his business, the master would propose a trip to the vault to visit to their pre-nuptial agreement. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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For all the jurors who had voted to acquit him the master planned a sumptuous feast: Meat patties, mac-n-cheese and baby beets. (“And for myself, mind you, an extra scoop of ice cream.”) As for those who voted to convict, he planned a special surprise. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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