Happy Birthday, Gilbert!

Today, May 29th, is the birthday of G.K. Chesterton! Circumstances have worked out such that I am by myself for most of the day (wife and daughter are away for a Girls' Day Out). I will go to Mass and later will read a bit of Chesterton on the porch, wreathed in pipe smoke and quaffing Fat Tire (in a cheery nod to the prodigious girth that accompanied Chesterton's prodigious vision. I was about to say "prodigious intellect", but I think his real gift was wisdom, not mere raw intelligence. He truly had an Enlarged Heart, but not of the kind that will show up in an X-ray).