Regards to comrades and friends

I have recently learned that my weblog has achieved the rank of Slithering Reptile in TTLB ecosystem. I have also learned that the way to achieve a more elevated rank is to increase the number of times that one's weblog is cited in other peoples' weblogs.

As the Gospel Reading for my church this Sunday had the counsel from Our Lord to do that to others which one would wish to have done to one's self, it should be only reasonable that I start citing weblogs that I read and believe should be further promulgated.

So I will start with two weblogs of friends. The first is occidentalis.blogspot.com. The author of this weblog is doing the needful task of showing that a Western Rite Orthodoxy is an important thing to preserve and cultivate, not only in that it is important to save all that is good in Anglicanism from the shipwreck in the late Anglican Communion which is even now occuring, but that there is much in Western Christendom which could profitably be observed and even learned by the East. While this is not my primary task, as I feel that there is also much in the East that may be profitably be learned and adopted by the West, I can only salute another laborer in the field. May his writings and his work long continue!

The second is darwincatholic.blogspot.com. This is a weblog written by two friends of mine: Darwin and Mrsdarwin: obvious pseudonyms for two dear friends who are in fact the son and daugher-in-law of two dear and old friends. (and burning coals could not force from me their names, at least as long as they wish to remain anonymous). While this is more an RC writing, both Darwin and his spouse display an intelligence, a wit, and sense of humor seldom found these days. This weblog is also well worth reading.

And, as soon as I am able to figure out the http coding which would enable me to do so, I plan on putting both of these weblogs on my list of favored links. Unfortunately, like most boggies, I am unable to understand any machinery more complex than a hand grenade or a garrote. Pity, that.