I missed Saturday Night at the Oldies<\/em> because I was in La Mirada, California, for a conference at Biola University. Ed Feser gave the keynote address and I was the commentator. More about the proceedings later, perhaps. But for now a quick make-up:<\/span><\/p>\n Carole KIng, I Feel the Earth Move<\/a>, from her 1971 Tapestry<\/em> album.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n An appropriate selection given the seismic events of Friday and Saturday in LaLaLand. On Friday evening I was quietly and comfortably ensconced in an easy chair in the guest suite of the Biola Philosophy House reading the Bible and Feser's Scholastic Metaphysics<\/a> back and forth, when I felt the chair shift. I was puzzled for a second until I realized that I was in Southern Calfornia, earthquake country. I thought: no big deal. As a native Californian, this was nothing new to my experience. (I remember in particular the early morning San Fernando\/Sylmar quake<\/a> of February '71.)<\/span><\/p>\n Later that night, in bed, it was a bigger deal: the bed began moving back and forth. I reflected that the Philosophy House was single-story and that egress was quick and easy should that be necessary. So I went back to sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n The third tremor I recall was near the end of the conference, and the fourth, rather more serious, occurred on Saturday night while David Limbaugh, Adam Omelianchuk, Ed Feser and I were enjoying a nice quiet conversation over beer in the Philosophy House.<\/span><\/p>\n It is good to be back on (relative) terra firma<\/em>, here in Arizona, where earthquakes are infrequent<\/a> and mild. I've been out here 23 years and I don't recall experiencing even one.<\/span><\/p>\n There is no absolute terra firma<\/em>. All terrestrial things must pass<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n All hylomorphic compounds are subject to dissolution, and you are a hylomorphic compound. Work out your salvation with diligence.<\/span><\/p>\n\n