Annie Lockwood

When I was young, my father often spoke to me about the great importance of cultivating a rich interior life, both intellectually and spiritually. Since my childhood was filled with great books, great music and a lot of outdoor adventure, this was not difficult for me to imagine, or to effect. And my father encouraged it by giving me stacks of books for birthdays and Christmas that began with Robinhood, The Secret Garden and King Arthur and gradually became history books, great literature, The Great Books, theology, philosophy, poetry and the Loeb classics. He was a superb mentor. Recently, I came across this beautiful gem, a book my father would have loved and could well have written. The author writes beautifully, and offers great wisdom. This is a great treasure. Buy it for your older children. Buy it for yourself. A rich interior life is a bulwark against the vicissitudes life throws at us all. It’s a life-gift.

@kerrikgray This is Beautiful, Kerri, as are you for reminding us. You have such a lovely heart.

I love this, God loves you more than you can ever imagine. ❤️❤️🙏🙏

@FeserEdward Buchanan was wise about many things

"Iran poses no nuclear threat to the U.S." is one of those claims that absolutely enrages people precisely because it is so obviously true. It's like "The emperor has no clothes on."

Not stupid. Lacking intellectual discipline and what the desert Church fathers called “custody of the mind.” The impact of a person who can’t control the impact of their personal feelings on their political judgements can often result in stupid choices. But that doesn’t mean they are stupid. It does mean their education is deficient. Logic. Rhetoric. We don’t yea h this anymore, sadly.

You should not talk about politics if you can’t separate your personal feelings about someone from the politics of whether they would win or lose an election. It means you’re too stupid.

@DimaZeniuk Yes. But there are different ways of ‘knowing’Truth. Love, for example, is a powerful truth. But it cannot be reduced to mathematics.

“I was absolutely obsessed with Truth. The obsession with truth is why I studied physics. Physics is just... what are provable truths of the universe.” — Elon Musk

I agree completely with your first statement. But that it is so does not mean that it can’t be so. To be against Zionism does not necessarily mean to be anti-Semite. But it can be, and some do cross this line, and have historically. To hate any ethnic group is wrong. To disagree with a political philosophy or a heretic theology is perfectly acceptable. For example, it is wrong to hate Muslims. But one can reject Sharia law. We need to use care with our distinctions.

@USCCB @ArchbishpSample Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism Zionism is a great heresy and evil Please condemn Zionism and prove we are not infiltrated

Catholics are called to reject antisemitism and the lies and conspiracies that fuel it, and to stand clearly against hatred and violence directed toward our Jewish brothers and sisters. To defend religious freedom with integrity, we must also reject antisemitism. @ArchbishpSample @archdpdx Watch the full video at: ow.ly/sYF550Yw6cA

@JackPosobiec Surprise, surprise!

Pipeline politics

@FeserEdward Yes

@elonmusk Elon is right once again.

It’s almost like they can’t be trusted 🤔

@LauraLoomer @DefiyantlyFree You are indeed vile. Your comments are beyond

The only country I am loyal to is the United States. If Tucker Carlson is believed to be a foreign agent and is leaking his discussions to foreign actors, why should his family be allowed to work in the White House? It speaks volumes that a Trump hater and simp for Islam like @ggreenwald is trying to protect Tucker Qatarlson and his son. You have to ask yourself why all of the biggest Trump haters want to make sure Tucker and his son are still able to access the White House. I find it to be bizarre. It’s ironic how @ggreenwald of all people is accusing me of not being loyal to the US when he lives in Brazil where he has sex with gay black prostitutes. Try not to get AIDS, Glenn. Is that what your husband had? What type of infection was it again?

You were so lovely, with light in your eyes. Your Dad must have adored you. And God gave you a great Dad and a great big brother to watch over you. Your Mom was a sad lady. I’ll pray for her soul. I’ve known women like this, so I understand somewhat. So happy you emerged from her abuse with a kind and loving heart. God Bless You.

When I was conceived, I wasn’t wanted by my mother. I was a ‘late in life’ baby that was going to ruin her new marriage and plans to live like Laura Petrie from the Dick Van Dyck show (had a kid, you hardly ever saw him). When she dated my dad, she told him many lies I found out later. One of which was that she’d “be honored to have his child”. God is always watching & listening folks. So within just a few weeks of the honeymoon, she gets the bad news. My dad is elated. My mom wants an abortion. (This isn’t hearsay btw, my mom told me this herself when I was in my teens). It was 1962. My dad said absolutely not. Here I am. She didn’t want her first two kids either, so I don’t feel isolated. She actually chickened out on aborting one of my brothers when she was on the table - but I digress. The one goal everyone in our house had was NOT to upset her. Be quiet. Do what you’re told. If she’s sleeping, don’t wake her up. We walked on eggshells the entire 18 years - then left. It obviously didn’t always work. Kids will be kids. We drop things. We make mistakes. We bring home a bad grade. We spill stuff. We are kids. I honestly don’t remember how old I was. Somewhere between 5 and 7 maybe? I’d done something wrong again. Probably didn’t clean my room. I remember standing in the kitchen, my back was against the refrigerator. My mom was absolutely disgusted with me. Like I was vermin. She made the statement “You know you’re absolutely good for nothing, don’t you?!!” My little 5-7 year old self looked at her and reflected, “Yeah, mommy, I know”. That was the day I broke as a human. I stopped seeing myself as someone of worth. My love for my mom, that unconditional thing that you’re born with, it finally shattered. There was no coming back. People have asked me: “Where was your father?” “Why didn’t he do anything?” Well, Daddy was at work. Daddy was also well aware of the vitriol that came out of my mom’s mouth, but I don’t think he knew how bad it was when it was aimed at me. I never told him because I BELIEVED HER COMPLETELY. So why would I tell? My dad never left her because he didn’t feel that he’d win custody of me. My brothers were hers from her previous marriage. None of us ever had abuse that sent us to the hospital. She was an RN before, she wasn’t dumb. And destroying your child’s world verbally leaves no scars at all. My dad DID try to make my childhood as best as he could. He and I were thick as thieves, which only made my mom more angry. She’d tell me over and over our lives would be so much better if he would just die. After I left home at 18, she did try to kill him. She failed. Ironically he outlived her by 8 years. He probably would have lived longer but the stuff she tried to poison him with damaged his heart. I have completely, 100% forgiven my mother. I do believe she most likely had 2 things working against her: I believe that her mother abused her, and that cycle you have to WANT to break (I did). The other is that I believe that she had some sort of mental illness. She was definitely a textbook narcissist, as she was never wrong, nor would she ever admit anything was her fault & apologize. She also never told me she loved me. The only thing I know for absolute certainty she loved was her little dog, Penny. That little 2lb yorkie was everything to her. Thanks for reading.🙏🏻

@astro_greek Food is better in the privacy of home, with a good wine and soft music and candlelight. I used to love restaurants full of energy (remember Stars in SF?), but now I am more inclined to food cooked just as I like (or just as those I love like) and deep conversations.

"It's hard for me to go to a restaurant, and if I do, I just try to find a corner table that's kind of dimly lit or something where I can sort of stay out of the way" - Elon Musk

@musk_coco Yes. He Is the surprise.

If you are a fan then don't stop, write YES ❤️

@paul_jkrause Yes

George Eliot. Middlemarch. Exceptional. Have you read it?

I disagree. It’s just that the past few months have been pretty unsettling: your break from Trump; your reunion with Trump; the Epstein revelations about you seeking to visit the island; your stony silence in the face of issues you once championed as part of MAGA. Hard to know what to make of all this. Politics is tribal, for sure. But the reaction to you is either abject adoration from sycophantic (which is not the same as loyal, because true fealty demands character) fans who will never hear anything negative about you; or confusion from long-time supporters who are wondering when the real Elon will stand tall as he has so often before.

"There has been an increase both in love and in hate for me, due to the inherently tribal nature of politics" - Elon Musk

@ggreenwald It’s vile.

Look at this rotted, vindictive witch trying to get someone fired from his job in the American government because his father publicly criticizes the foreign country to which she is loyal. Punishing someone for their parents' political views isn't a part of American culture:

@elonmusk Glad to hear it!

I don’t even smoke lol 💨

@GuntherEagleman Bongino: That beacon of truth and transparency. As if his comments count for anything. He’s become a shill.

🚨 BREAKING: Dan Bongino just EVISCERATED the nonsense “They have no balls so they attack everyone else. Trump thinks for himself. If you think he’s getting dog-walked by anyone, you don’t know jack squat about the guy, he’s the one walking the damn dog”

@GigaBasedDad Read the early Church fathers. They were very clear on this.

I'm actually a premillennial dispensationalist However, because of the acts of premillennial dispensationalist Christians, and the wicked acts of other foreign nations they endorse, I am starting to reconsider my eschatological views Am I the only one?

@baroncoleman How about her doctorate? Is that a lie?

It’s starting to look more and more like Erika Kirk lied about being summa cum laude and led about being a double major. But, yeah, sure. That’s fine. Have her speak at the educators’ summit.

@kainXenable @yashar @CHSommers Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Afghanistan? Obvious times we should be using it? Throwing around our weight is not courage. It’s idiocy.

@tablewithannie @yashar @CHSommers Nah, this just made me like Trump even more. He understands there's no point in having the greatest military in the world if we don't use it during the most obvious times we should be using it. Sounds like to me you just lack a pair

Mark Levin gets a huge post defending him from President Trump amid his back-and-forth with Megyn Kelly and his ongoing battle with Tucker Carlson. Trump says in his post: “….Those that speak ill of Mark will quickly fall by the wayside, as do the people whose ideas, policies, and footings are not sound. THEY ARE NOT MAGA, I AM, and MAGA includes not allowing Iran, a Sick, Demented, and Violent Terrorist Regime, to have a Nuclear Weapon to blow up the United States of America, the Middle East and, ultimately, the rest of the World….”