(This was a letter I wrote to the Cardinal regarding Laudato SI’ and the environment.) “So we may be the loving, caring church that God wants us to be as long as it doesn’t inconvenience us too much, the weather is right, it won’t cost us any money, we won’t…

Even though we don’t got no money and you think my jokes aren’t funny. I got you babe. Even though you ruined my credit and didn’t seem to regret it. I got you babe. Even though you smoked my pot and said you did not. I got you babe. Even…

And someone a good friend told me she didn’t believe the statistics. And that’s fine as long as you provide stats of your own. What else is new? Hmm. In Chicago in five months we have 900 people dead. Hmm. And then the pandemic. The stat I was looking at…

This was something I wrote awhile back thinking that it might invigorate the flock. Not so. Guess not. I’m not Padre Pio either. We are all going to have such a great time. And Father Fajardo will be there and Cardinal Cupich and Bishop Birmingham and Father Dave all my…

We found the wonderful Clare at PAWS in Chicago where my friend was volunteering. The first cat struck out because it was in a nipping mood despite my friend telling me that it had never did that before. Personally I really didn’t care for cats. She was sitting amongst…

This was today’s big ordeal. My friend feeding the pigeons in front of the church as he has done for ages. Threatened him with being kicked out of church. That is the most charitable act they could perform. — — — — — — — — — — — —…

Gassy. Now that I have your attention. So just about an hour ago I was trash surfing and found a wonderful bouquet of flowers. Which is fantastic-since I wanted to write on waste. And I had the story all together in my mind and decided to read some more articles…

The concept is to entice homeless individuals into Solution Focused Short Term Brief Therapy and maintaining basic activities of daily life. Pay individuals for seeking therapy back that up with 4 hotel stays one per each session of therapy. Equip. Encourage. Engage. “In the summer of 2016, 100 Fujifilm QuickSnap cameras were be…

Memorial Day and as I walked around the City I noticed a shortage of flags. Now I am not a big flag person even though we used to have a flagpole at our house in Olyphant, Pa. The city, Chicago used to have some company hang them from the lights…