The ideas of all things are in God
I would like this to be a serious blog. I admire blogs that are about something, that are focused. Or at least a blog that provides kind of a record of my reading, or thoughts, or something like that. But in fact, I think I will have to settle for a blog that is like my other past blogs -- a sort of series of freeze-frames, some out of focus, some related to others and some not. Maybe it will end up making a mosaic -- aren't there those mosaics that when you dive down to granular level are actually individual photos made into tiles? That actually brings to mind what I was reading this morning -- St Thomas Aquinas on Ideas -- this is from Msr Glenn's Tour of the Summa, which is available online. He says: An idea or concept is the mind's grasp of an essence. It is the understanding of what a definition means. Thus the idea human being is the mind's grasp of human being as such. It is the mind's grasp in one act of understa...