2017 Advent Retreat at St. Joseph’s Abbey (Updated)
“Open your eyes, then, and your heart, in an undisturbed solitude with God alone. Be still, and see what he is offering you, what he is to you.” – A Continue Reading →
Author Archives: Winston Smith
Thanksgiving 2017
(1) How to Talk About Star Wars at Thanksgiving With Your Ignorant, Rebellion-Backing Uncle (The Washington Free Beacon) “On the forest moon of Endor, the Empire was able to build Continue Reading →
Weekend 405.0 (…they sent us along as a surrogate band)
“Particularly when I am worn out by the upsets of the world, I cast myself without reservation on the love of those who are especially close to me.” – St. Continue Reading →
Bermuda (Devil’s Isle), Part 3 of 3
Day 5 After a proper English breakfast in the clubhouse we departed for the Crystal Caves in Hamilton Parish. The caves were discovered in 1908 by two boys in search Continue Reading →
Weekend 404.0
“It was a peace that did not depend on houses, or jobs, or places, or times, or external conditions. It was a peace that time and material created situations could Continue Reading →
Bermuda (Devil’s Isle), Part 2 of 3
Day 4 Our adventures started at the Bermuda Botanical Gardens. We spent a couple of hours exploring the thirty-six acres of flowers, trees, and shrubs. Make sure to visit the Continue Reading →
What you been chasing all these years?
I don’t know. A wounded ego and a missing eye, I guess.
That great fiction…
(1) We Live In The Dystopia Young Adult Fiction Warns Us About: Young adult fiction is awash in projections of a dystopian future, yet we’re still sliding into that future, Continue Reading →
Weekend 403.0
“For more than a century the charred walls of Orval were at the mercy of the weather and of stone—and treasure seekers.” – Spiritual Heights and Depths, 2011 (1) A Continue Reading →
Weekend 402.0
(1) Quality, variety and surprise. How Walt Disney created a very real fantasy (Blooloop) (2) Quotes from The Man in the Castle by Philip K. Dick: “They want to be Continue Reading →