Three Dogs North

The dove descending breaks the air

Who then devised the torment? Love.

– Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot

This kind of turned out to be a pre-emptive Halloween Spooktacular. Here are some things you might check out:

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

A Pinky and the Brain Halloween by The Animaniacs

Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word by Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis

Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis

Forbidden Closet of Mystery by Chief Wiggum

First Mass Homily by C-Bisc

Thanks for listening. Leave us a review on iTunes. Contact us at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter @threedogsnorth. Cut off the head of a chicken and dance around a tree stump. Wave your hands five times. Do whatever it takes.

“Say your prayers in a garden early, ignoring steadfastly the dew, the birds and the flowers, and you will come away overwhelmed by its freshness and joy; go there in order to be overwhelmed and, after a certain age, nine times out of ten nothing will happen to you.” – C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves, p.22

Greetings, friends. We recorded this episode together on 3 North after I surprised Metz and Juice with a visit. In fact, pleasant surprises might serve as the theme of this podcast. Here’s some stuff to check out:

Top Gun (the actual thing)

How to tell an aspen tree (very neat!)

Life in a Secular Age by The Art of Manliness

NHL ’94 by Sega

Three to Get Married by Fulton Sheen

Help me, Tom Cruise by Ricky Bobby

Thanks for listening. Leave us a review on iTunes if it suits you. Email us at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter @threedogsnorth. Peace!

Another podcast, another thing checked off the list. Here’s some stuff:

To Save a Thousand Souls by Fr. Brett Brannen

Stoner by John Williams

Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis

Kieran Setiya on the Midlife Crisis by Philosophy Bites

Get ahold of us via email at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter @threedogsnorth. Like us on Facebook. Review us on iTunes. If you will.

I have a cold, and Mike might too. We talk about mediation in this episode. Here’s some stuff to check out:

Stained glass window of Mary Immaculate at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Chicago

The Liturgy Guys with Dr. Denis McNamara and Mr. Chris Carstens

Echoes from the Bell Tower by the Monks of St. Meinrad Abbey

Fr. Vincent Capodanno

The Bishop by Anton Chekhov (short story)

Email us at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter @threedogsnorth. Leave us a review on iTunes. Or don’t. Peace!

Here are a couple of things mentioned in the episode you might want to check out:

Lancelot by Walker Percy

Priests for the Third Millenium by Timothy Cardinal Dolan

City of God by Saint Augustine

The Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 12

Foundations of Western Civilization (Great Courses) by Thomas F. X. Noble

The Importance of Having a Tribe by The Art of Manliness

Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis

We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to contact us at [email protected], follow us on Twitter @threedogsnorth, or leave us a review on iTunes. Peace!

Greetings, friends. Miraculously, we are already beginning our fifth season of the podcast, despite only having been at it for a little over two years!

The dogs are back in their right place, and we should be at it pretty steadily for a while. You can expect weekly podcasts, and hopefully some more written work on the website. In case you’d like to check out some of the things mentioned on the episode, you can find them here:

Lord of the Rings (50th anniversary edition) by J.R.R. Tolkien

The bearded squirrel – On nature and natural law by C-bisc

Getting Things Done by David Allen

Addiction and Grace by Gerald May

Philosophy and Theology by John Caputo

A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken

Thanks for listening, and feel free to email us at [email protected] or follow us on Twitter @threedogsnorth. And if you really like us, leave us a review on iTunes.

And please note: I am aware that the title of this episode is a split infinitive. I’m too edgy to truly care.

Unbelievably, this is our hundredth episode. To mark the occasion, threedogsnorth.com has gotten a facelift, and the architect behind the scenes of this whole project finally steps out from behind the microphone. Special thanks to my brother Ethan for getting Three Dogs North off the ground more than two years ago, and for giving us the advice that has kept us going: “keep doing it until it’s good.”

We will keep trying.

If you’re not in the habit, you may want to check the website periodically for articles written by the dogs. Now that it looks, as Metz aptly put it, “way better than we deserve”, we may feel a little more impetus to give reasons for people to go there.

For everyone who has listened, sent us an encouraging email, put a 3DN sticker on on their cellular telephone, left us an iTunes review, or otherwise shown their support of what we’re doing, thank you. As long as you’re listening, we will keep trying to do this. If this is you’re first time listening to Three Dogs North, hello.

I think I’m going to paint the moment.

I’ve always been empathetic.

Florida is huge.