Guest Blogger: Subaico Now

Here is a guest blog by Periwinkle Percival:

I was reading our local paper during break at work. I read two things of interest: Oprah Winfrey is heralded as a great spiritual leader, a "hip, materialistic version of Mother Teresa." The other was an advertisment for the "best seller" in junvenille literature: Walter the Farting Dog II: Walter Goes on Cruise.

I am glad that the author of the article on Ms. Winfrey had the discernment to verify that hip and materailistic are not descripters of the late Mother Teresa of Calcutta. After that, the analogy breaks down for me I think, much in the same way that someone might try to decribe to me a sunlit night or a moonlit day.

Wow. I am stunned at my incomplete childhood, having missed out on the the epic of Walter the Farting Dog. Superman, the Lone Ranger, Batman, and any other hero figure from my youth or my parents youth just cannot begin to compare with the uncomparable Walter. Seeing as how this is the SECOND book of this inestimatable series, I forcast that a movie will come of it, if it has not been already cast. A line of toy accessories is sure to follow that. I am reserving my place in line at Toys R Us now.

This must be a small glimmer of what St Benedict, and the other fathers/mothers of the monasticism must have seen and felt as they surveyed the world around them. To be sure, the world ALWAYS was evil and depraved; at absolute rock bottom. It also appears that having hit rock bottom, the world has begun to dig.