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Topic:	Link and Description:
Work Stuff	APEX/EXPO/Designers Summit IPC Midwest IPC Homepage 5-24b Homepage Benedictine U (Formerly known as Proco)
Family and Friend Stuff:	Michael Munie: Net Presence Jeffrey Munie: Industrial Design Steve Scherer's Art Glass Tracey Babcock's Riding School for special needs children. Randy Richards Would you buy a used syllogism from this man? Howard Spense: Here come da judge! Ron Trojcak: One a them Catholic types. Dave Ash: Grad School Madness! Chris Grier: Farmer City Barcrawl indeed! Jean He: Cool Lady Greg Blonder: The real Bell Labs Arno Penzias: Not with a whimper but with a BANG! Paul Scherer: Wanna buy a t-shirt? Tom Graedel: Save the Planet! Richard Wool: All the Best of Polymer Science DeAnn Parham: Mission to Kenya Wes Shields on the military/culinary front in Kuwait
Religious, Educational Etc. Stuff:	My old home parish. Our current parish. St. Procopius Abbey Fr. Becket's Blog The Oblates of St. Procopius Give peace a chance. Stift Melk Fr. Burke's Blog Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist I am humbled by this: courage and conviction. The Manhatten Declaration A view from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary U of I at UC U of I at Chicago Stanford Yoav Shoham's group at Stanford
Fun Stuff:	Strongbadia Basic Instructions Sacred Sandwich
Exercise:	My alma mater of combat. Would you prefer pistols? Training tips I find useful. More training tips and ideas. Working class fitness.The Diesel Crew Elitefts A list of some of my workouts.
Resources and Tools:	Flight Tracker Google Anywho Google Maps Neat way to travel! Wikipedia
Stuff:	RECIPES: Greg's and friends (updated 01/15/12) Personal Publications Personal (CV Format)
Thoughts on Responsibility and Self-Criticism: (Proverbs 21: 29, Psalm 36: 2-3)	Can YOU get "A Message to Garcia?" Teddy Roosevelt on Character Interesting articles. Patrick Moynihan and "Defining Down Deviancy" A sermon on the Feast of the Epiphany 2006. Four sermons in Ordinary Time 2008, 2009 and 2010. A sermon on the third Sunday of Advent 2010. A sermon on the nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time 2011.
Thoughts on Life	It is not what we are given at birth that matters. The mark we make in this life is determined by the choices we make everyday. - Fr. Julian Deurbeck O.S.B. If we live a family life of love and kindness, of care and concern, our children will learn a lesson that they will want to pass on to their children. - Abbot Dismas Kalcic O.S.B. If you embrace the values of your culture you will become indifferent to the presence of God within you. - Abbot Dismas Kalcic O.S.B. Physical comfort is good. But if we have too much of it our hearts grow dull. We become indifferent to those around us. And we can no longer lay hold of eternal life. - Abbot Austin Murphy O.S.B. There are five truths about life we would do well to learn: Life is hard, you are going to die, you are not in control of your life, you are not that important and your life is not about you. - John Grossman A healthy community needs a clear understanding of what it can tolerate lest the fabric of the common life be stretched so thin that it disintegrates. Individuals need to know that they do not operate in isolation and that their behavior affects everyone else in the group. - Columba Stewart O.S.B. You can have anything you want. You can be anything you want. You can achieve anything you want. All it takes is hard work. If you don't want to work or you quit then you have no right to complain if you don't get what you wanted. - Richard Ferre Give thanks to God for all you've been blessed with. Lift up your face to heaven. And smile. - Br. Kevin Coffey O.S.B. Lord, remind me on the days I don't get my way what a glorious day this is! - Barbara McCartney

Winemaking

Through the gracious generosity of the monks at St. Procopius Abbey I have been learning to make wine using the grapes of their vineyard and the fruit of their orchard. Five years of "vinting" have been completed and the grapes of 2011 are now in their respective bottles while the vintage of 2010 is ready for a final wine tasting review by the monastic community.

Now that the 2011 season has ended activities in the vineyard are underway as weather permits. These activities include trellis repair and general maintenance. Next season will the first for me without my longtime wine making mentor, Br. George Popovics, who died August 4, 2011 at the age of 91.I hope that if he looks down on the current activity he will be happy that the work he carried on from those who went before him is still continuing in the Abbey's 125 year tradition.

To round out my vineyard work I am teaching a lab in wine biology and chemistry at Benedictine University for the Spring 2012 semester.

I have added a few pictures of the process for viewing. If you are interested in participating in this process please contact me via e-mail. Or if you are interested in the monastic lifestyle and might even like spending a weekend staying with the monks and getting a feel for their life please vist the abbey's web site.

On a note, other than wine, I took my final vows as an Oblate of St. Procopius on Sunday, November 14th, 2010 and am still an Oblate in good standing! :-) If you might be interested in Oblate life please visit the Oblate web page.


Last Updated 01/24/12
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