Apologia and Re-Boot

Because even I find these kind of posts tedious almost beyond bearing, I am going to do all in my power to make sure this is the last one in which I explain why The League has been so nearly comatose, of late.

This has been a spring and summer very different from those to which I am accustomed. I have been at a career crossroads which involves juggling at least four different sorts of work and training, all with an eye toward at long last making a decent (and reliable) living for my family and me (what were you thinking, dear, when you married a painter? Never mind. I know, and I will be thankful 'til the day I die).

Juggling, it has become increasingly apparent, is not one of my God-given talents. I have been painting, showing and teaching as one seeking a career in fine art. I have been working toward a teaching certificate, as one who seeks to teach in the public schools. I have been working (and looking for work) as an experienced screen printer, and I have continued to seek out work (freelance, or otherwise) as a graphic artist/illustrator.

This has left me, no matter what I might be doing, with the constant, nagging sensation that I really ought to be attending to something else more urgent. Due to my congenital absent mindedness, I have - several times a week for my entire adult life - felt a sudden rush of mental terror that there was something extremely important I was forgetting, and it was mostly a pretty safe bet that this was true.

This has meant that The League has very often received short shrift in the last few months. It has meant, in fact, that for weeks I did not even check the League e-mail.

But, thanks to the initiative of some other local Beardies, I see an opportunity to remedy this situation, and inject new life into the League of Bearded Catholics.

We now have scheduled (see our Facebook page);

An ad-hoc Fact Finding Mission of the Special Task Force of the Exploratory Arm of the unofficial Membership Service Committee of the Northwest Arkansas Chapter of The League of Bearded Catholics.

Tuesday, June 29th, 6:45-ish, at Club Frisco in Downtown Rogers, Arkansas. We'll post a sign.

Those who miss shall think themselves accursed they were not there, and hold their manhoods cheap, etc, etc...

I've got to make some quick contacts and send out some backlogged membership certificates, etc... (flushes with shame), but things should be rolling along again soon, and I will endeavour to post here daily. Still, I can't help but think I'm forgetting something...

Comments

[Joe Tremblay]

> Still, I can't help but think I'm forgetting something...

Chestertonian that you are, it is probably your train ticket.

[Pierce O.]

Completely non sequitur, but if anyone is looking for more whiskers to distribute to non-bearded members, I discovered that many of the gashapon machines in such places as Kmart sell fake adhesive mustaches and beards. :[)>

[Del]

Let us not forget that The League of Bearded Catholics is not a blog, but a movement of faithful, enthusiastic men with short attention spans.

It's okay if Tim doesn't blog sometimes.

It is better if members write a bit of their own adventures, and let Tim post a few of them.

[John Kasaian]

TLBC in Fresno, California (the raisin capitol of the world!) has certainly been active!

1)I've been drinking Fat Tire beer.
2)I grew a beard during a hospital stay(hey, it's a $38,000 beard according to the hospital bill!)
3)A group of interiorly bearded ladies and myself said a Rosary on the front steps of our parish church at high noon last Saturday for our priests to close end the Year For Priests called by His interiorly bearded Holiness.
4)My Webelos are going to be studying the theological implications of Lord of the Rings during our "Webelos Retreat" next month.
5) I've been drinking Fat Tire beer(did I mention that?)

[Del]

John Kasaian = Hovannes??????

[John Kasaian]

Reporting for duty, Sir!

[Tim J.]

"5) I've been drinking Fat Tire beer(did I mention that?)"

Yes, you mentioned that... good for you!

Wish you all could be here for what is (as far as I know) the first official chapter meeting. I'll post the minutes.

[Robert Harrison]

As an interiorly bearded TLBC (alas, my status as a fireman requires me to be clean shaven - wouldn't want the face mask to have a leaky seal on my mug) I can report a brisk and stirring debate on the merits of Distributism & the benefits (or lack thereof) of a guild system at our annual Catholic pool party this past weekend. GK himself was invoked several times.

As you might guess, the quality of debate was inversely proportional to the quantity of beer consumed.

[Shakespeare's Cobbler the ever loginner forgetter who needs to sync all his blog IDs]

You mean directly proportional.

Direct proportion means that when one goes up, the other goes up. If this is what you mean regarding conversation and beer, then I fail to see why we might guess it.

Inverse proportion means that when one goes down, the other goes up and vice versa. It would be used more in the situation of, say, manliness is inversely proportional to the adherence to modernist fallacies. More modernist fallacies means less manliness, more manliness means fewer modern fallacies and in smaller scope or scale.

Sorry, I became a stickler for the proper, chemist-like understanding of proportions when they were used in many a murphological statement (though by now I forget most of those).

[Shakespeare's Cobbler the ever loginner forgetter who needs to sync all his blog IDs]

Doh! I meant "If this is _not_ what you mean regarding conversation and beer..."

Here am I being tough on right language and missing a word that inverts my proposition!

[Del]

I never got the hang of adverbs too, Cobbler.

[Robert Harrison]

Cobbler:

I amend my statement to read: The liveliness of debate was indeed proportional to the quantity of beer consumed. The rest will have to stand.