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April 2014

April 09, 2014

Laetare Rocks

We’ve passed Laetare Sunday, the fourth week of Lent, and still I’ve not been able...

April 02, 2014

Nearly Feral

The three year old tabby was small for her age at only five pounds. Her dark-gray...

March 2014

March 26, 2014

A Tatting of Green

I’m not fond of mud season, but this year I look to it with eager...

March 19, 2014

I’m Having Trouble with Penance

I am always eager for Lent to begin, literally so for the lengthening of days,...

March 17, 2014

After Glow

My final oblation was at hand. That night at vespers I would lay my heart...

March 12, 2014

St. Benedict’s Soup

It was the weekend before I was to make my final profession as a Benedictine...

March 05, 2014

Benedictine Cross Kerfuffle

Nine months before my final profession as a Benedictine Oblate, I began the search for...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Dyed Orchids and Dying to Self

In the west window atop the stairs are shelves for growing houseplants, one being a...

February 19, 2014

Starving to be Fed

I was surprised this year by the return of migratory birds. It felt like the...

February 12, 2014

Blue Blue Birds

One of the delights of living a single life in silence is hearing the change...

February 05, 2014

Grow Light

It had been weeks since the last time it was warm enough to walk—a relative...

January 2014

January 29, 2014

Father’s Hands

The love of greenhousing began when I was very young. I remember being carried on my...

January 24, 2014

Fire Too Close

The siren was close. The main road I live on, Berry, intersects with Meridian three...

January 17, 2014

Lasers and Light

The furnace barely kept up. It ran almost constantly on Sunday as winter winds blew...

January 13, 2014

Driven to Humility

The audience had applauded with enthusiasm after the presenter’s slide show. The gardening program left...

January 10, 2014

Suffering Succotash Mother!

She preferred to be called Mother Bailey. She was a stately Scottish woman; tall and...

January 03, 2014

Be Still and Shovel

Restless and awake through the night, in bed under layers of quilts, I listed to...

December 2013

December 20, 2013

Intimacy of a Name

She was a full-bodied woman and reminded me of Oprah, as Sophia, in the Color...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

Snow and Falling

Sitting in my oratory, I finished the Salve Regina prayer. I then looked from the...

November 22, 2013

Rubbish with Attitude

I find November to be a transitional month—not quite past autumn and not yet winter....

November 18, 2013

The Fruit of Celibate Love

I’m still praying with the question from Lisa Hendy, of Catholicmom.com, about Conscious Celibacy and...

November 15, 2013

Blooms of Mary’s Sword

I remember as a child the sweet fragrance and stunning colors of the species Iris...

November 08, 2013

Celibate Free for All

I find it fascinating that the central question to being single is focused on the...

October 2013

October 25, 2013

Vibrancy and Dormancy

I’d driven to an area where Sandhill Cranes often stop to rest during their winter...

October 21, 2013

Increments of Evil

I wrote about how both God and Satan work incrementally. Not so long ago I...

October 18, 2013

Feeling of Skin

It was an early autumn morning at the retreat center and I was walking through...

October 04, 2013

Seeing Stars and the Holy Trinity

I love apples! Seriously. Love them almost more than chocolate. Biting into a warm, crisp,...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

Taking One Step When a Full Stride is too Much

Clearing Away (September 2008) I looked at my grandmother’s small kitchen table and found myself...

September 20, 2013

Black Birds Landing

A murder of crows swooped loud and large into the back yard. Their boisterous cawing...

September 06, 2013

Perils of Digging Potatoes

I’ve been a city-dwelling gardener all my life. I’ve worked on overgrown lots that hid...

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