Three Dogs North

This is the ultimate in easy-to-use authoritative Scrabble challenge resources I’m sure that’s all you came for. Actually, here’s the video we talked about, in case you missed it. threedogsnorth@gmail.com

I do not know what I’m doing.

Any imperfection that I have, feel free to point it out.

If God loves the world, might that not be proved in my own love for it? I prayed to know in my heart His love for the world, and this was my most prideful, foolish, and dangerous prayer. It was my step into the abyss. As soon as I prayed it, I knew that I […]

Hey, all. Sorry for the sound quality. The guys forgot the power chord for the sound board on their pilgrimage to France. You’ll just have to deal till they get back. Peace!

“That was more than sixty years ago. My friend grew up and learned all about entropy and supernovas and colliding galaxies and quantum mechanics and the general theory of relativity. But still, when she closes her eyes, she can see that carpet of stars and hear her father’s voice: “God made the world beautiful because […]

Hey all. Rob’s getting ordained in about two weeks, and we talk about that. Here’s something to check out: Seeing the Invisible by Catholic Stuff You Should Know (on the analogy of faith and falling in love). Hope you’re having a great week. God bless!

“E. L. Doctorow once said that ‘writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’…This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard.” -Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird Greetings, […]

“We are moving forward by remembering the past.” This podcast episode brought to you by Kodak disposable cameras. Here is some stuff to check out: Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry I’m pretty under the weather, so that’s about all the description I can muster. Enjoy! And please review us on iTunes. Contact us at threedogsnorth@gmail.com. […]

“The Lord God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it. The Lord God gave the man this order: You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From that tree you […]

“We tremble here on a vertiginous edge. The self is not a thing but a perspective; but, as Nagel reminds us, perspectives are not in the world but on the world.”   -Roger Scruton The Face of God Apologies for the quality of connection. The guys are on pilgrimage in the Holy Land right now but found the time […]

When he took the three disciples To the mountainside to pray, His countenance was modified, his clothing was aflame. Two men appeared: Moses and Elijah came; They were at his side. The prophecy, the legislation spoke of whenever he would die.   -Sufjan Stevens, The Transfiguration Mike and Rob are headed off to the Holy Land […]

“A new law of the Cosmos, applicable only to the recently appeared triadic creature: If you’re a big enough fool to climb a tree and like a cat refuse to come down, then someone who loves you has to make as big a fool of himself to rescue you.”   – Walker Percy, Lost in the […]

“All glory be to God on high, and to the earth be peace! good will henceforth from God to man: begin and never cease!”   -The Oh Hellos, Mvmt II., “Begin and Never Cease” The three of us went to a concert that we all really liked. Here is some stuff we mention: The Oh […]

“And just as we should need some extra powers of breathing, not contained in our nature, to live on another planet, so we need extra powers in our soul, not contained in our nature, in order that we may live the life of heaven. These powers which are not ours by nature, which are necessary […]

“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse ‘applicability’ with ‘allegory’; but the one resides in […]

“Dad’s philosophy of life was that if you can get somebody on a lawn chair, outside on a Sunday, while he was doing pork steaks in the barbeque pit, listening to Harry Caray and the Saint Louis Cardinals in the background with a bottle of Busch, you could win over anybody. There’s nobody that if […]

“I see it now,” she said. “You think times have lengths. A night is always a night whatever you do in it, as from this tree to that is always so many paces whether you take them quickly or slowly. I suppose that is true in a way. But the waves do not always come […]

Such was my heart, O God, such was my heart. You had pity on it when it was at the bottom of the abyss. Now let my heart tell you what it was seeking there in that I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was […]

With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling   We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, unremembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is […]