This morning I woke up and got started in a decent state.  I helped get the kids off to school and I went to class.

At class we had a lively discussion about who is the worthy poor and the unworthy poor. I was grateful for the opportunity to discuss this because

The discussion digressed into a debate over what is enabling of addicts and alcoholics and about whether the professor is doing so with his son.  He used his experience with sending him to La Hacienda multiple times and how this is sending him off to a resort.  I thought that I was listening to my wife describe it.

After class I sat at the smoking table where a discussion ensued about each person's ideas and experiences with what approach to addiction treatment is best.  I had to exercise patience and let people talk and not try to resolve every perspective.

When I made it home a TV program caught my attention.  It was a made for TV movie about Saint Marie-Bernarde Soubirous.  The principle character was a doctor named Henri Guillomet who met Bernadette and who's wife was miraculously healed of her consumption.  What caught my attention was a discussion between the Doctor and his students about miracles and science.  In the movie the doctor was a student of Jean-Martin Charcot who sought to convince the doctor that the miracle was a form of hypnosis.  This was only significant to me because my professor spoke about Charcot recently in class.