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Pack Your Rubber Boots
April 6, 2022
The kids and I headed out to take an afternoon walk in the rain. It had been rainy all morning, an on-and-off soaking. As we piled into the car, we heaved...
"Perhaps this is OK."
March 8, 2022
Before he designed the Monk Manual, Steve Lawson felt quite burned out on the anxious codes of modern productivity. He was sick of the sucking vacuum of...
Going Forward as an Essayist
February 8, 2022
I had a wonderful visit to John Brown University last week. A writing friend extended the kind invitation to come, and it was such a rich experience. I...
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January 2, 2022
On a walk in the rain yesterday I spotted a painted rock in the scrubby brown grass of a neighbor's front lawn. It was painted bright blue, shimmering, with...
Make it smaller.
November 15, 2021
The leaves are falling fast from the arms of patient trees. They have been coming down so steadily in the last few days, making such a regular thrumming on...
Be bold. Be humble.
October 29, 2021
Peregrinatio means holy wandering, pilgrimage, in Latin. A German friend of mine sent me a photo recently of the reliquary of Hildegard of Bingen, and that...
"Beams of Available Light"
September 14, 2021
We arrived back in the United States in early July, and began settling into our new old digs in mid-August, just before school started here. We're relearning...
Baby Jesus on a Bar of Soap
December 15, 2020
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 We put up our Christmas tree the weekend before we celebrated Thanksgiving, an unusual move for us. We typically keep Christmas...
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