2024 Retreat at St. Joseph’s Abbey
“Settings became ‘silent characters.’” — Ruth D. Nelson My retreat this year was wedged between a flurry of year-end travel (work and personal). It was also a year of extraordinary Continue Reading →
Weekend 624.0
We hope that it will be unlike anything else on this earth: a fair, amusement park, an exhibition, a city from the Arabian Nights, a metropolis of the future; in Continue Reading →
Weekend 623.0
“…clad in a mantle of silver and blue, fair as the twilight in Elven-home; her dark hair strayed in a sudden wind, and hew brows were bound with gems like Continue Reading →
Weekend 622.0 (fragments that can shore up one’s ruins…)
The powers of evil have, theologically, two characteristics. First, they are really evil: evil is not merely in the mind as some philosophers have suggested, but is a force which Continue Reading →
Weekend 621.1
We need it so we don’t forget that there are things in this world not carved out of gray stone. That there’s a small place inside of us they can Continue Reading →
Weekend 621.0
“I think I know exactly what you mean by the order of Grace; and of course, by your references to Our Lady, upon which all my own small perception of Continue Reading →
Weekend 620.1
Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten, your gold and silver have corroded, and that corrosion will be a testimony against you; it will devour your flesh Continue Reading →
Weekend 620.0 (…in reality a true aeolian limestone)
There once many men, glad-minded and gold-bright,adorned in gleaming, proud and wine-flushed, shone in war-tackle;There one could look upon treasure, upon silver, upon ornate jewelry,upon prosperity, upon possession, upon precious Continue Reading →
Silver, sea glass, and rum (or somewhere between Middle and South Road)
Just back from Bermuda. Uploading photos on Flickr, but a full recap will have to wait until work travel concludes. For now… (1) On September 16, 1620, the Mayflower sails Continue Reading →
Weekend 619.0
The Estes Screamin’ Mimi (SM) was refurbished and re-launched last weekend. It’s the oldest model rocket in the fleet at seventeen years old. It’s also the most launched. The fins Continue Reading →