News from ‘All Around:

My associate in blogging, Jack Regan from over in England, wondered if the March for Life here in the States might be suspect in adults trying “to push their cause by telling the world that it’s popular with young people.”  I get that possibility, Jack, but there are an abundance of young voices engaged in this.

WASHINGTON, DC — Mary DeTurris Poust of Our Sunday Visitor reports that” People don’t go on the March for Life to feel good about themselves; they go because they have convictions, because they believe in the dignity of human life for even the most vulnerable, because they take their duty as Christians seriously. They walk in the rain and the cold. They ride for hours and hours on cramped buses. They get nasty things shouted at them and written about them — even by fellow Catholics.” Read her whole post.

Additionally, Brandon Vogt called my attention to this Marc Barnes produced video.

The Catholic Review’s Matt Palmer offered yoman’s coverage of the event with > Loyola Alive president says being pro-life in college is hard,  > Loyola University Maryland students speak out for life,  > Home school teens on speaking out against abortion,  >  One boy’s surprising testimony of choosing life,  > John Carroll School students speak out against abortion, and  > Audio of Monsignor Charles Pope’s Rally for Life homily.

News from ‘Round Here:

The week started out early… very early. I was motoring on down to DC for the Rally and March for Life.  It was a long good day, early in the morning on the radio from across the street from the Verizon, impressed with Gene (at our site) and Brad, grabbed the guys from Jacob and Matthew band to clinch up a Pilgrimage promotional video, Rosary and Mass, and, otherwise, walking the ramps visiting with various friends and contacts.

Tuesday brought supervisions in the morning along with pilgrimage video production.  I had a meeting down in Annapolis at lunch and then back into the office for e-mails.  Two previous long days resulted in a short day Wednesday with some reports developed and some desk cleaning.  Then, home for some rest and light advance blogging.

Thursday morning started with repaying a favor to my daughter and heading out early to purchase textbooks for her. It was simple but that was this week’s A.W.E. (Amazing Weekly Experience). I like being asked to do dad stuff, even by a 27-year-old. We had an E-Team staff meeting in the morning and I worked some preparatory stuff up for the new Archbishop (Just ‘cause we don’t know when the announcement occurs does not mean we should not be ready.)

Friday, I realized I had mis-filed an appointment on my calendar… Missing a dinner/reception the night before.  So, it started with apologies. The day was spent scripting twp presentations, getting a new flyer developed and a quickie e-mail out and prepping for my accountant tomorrow. Despite the confused calendar, I got a good dinner anyways.

Got my W-2’s earlier in the week, so I scheduled my earliest tax accounting appointment ever for he day. Got a nice refund coming in February.  I also took yet another appointment still to pursue some preventative health matters. The evening finished off with a mad dash to go watch The Artist.

Sunday was a good close-out sort of day of the old year of life.  I putzed along most of the morning on a spontaneous project and then hunkered down to prep for the seasonal young adult Mass and the shopping for the snackage that followed it.  Early to bed, but that didn’t stop some late night text messages with greetings and plans.