02/12/2010 Celebrate your uniqueness. Female Grackles: Most people find these birds to be extraordinarily ordinary. They are everywhere in Austin and I love them. They have so much personality. I could sit in any parking lot for hours watching them.

02/03/2010 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (John 1:4)

February 2, 2010 Yes, Lord! Yes. Lord! Yes! Yes, Lord! Amen! Another moment from the youth convention over the weekend. This was Sunday morning about an hour before Mass. It's kind of funny; we took about 1,400 pictures over the weekend. This morning, I remembered the official registration numbers. There were about 1,400 kids there.