Otherwise known as Lent
For a string of years, near the beginning of March, Deb and I would pack up and go to Whidbey Island. It was a way to shake off winter’s habits—habits of ...
Category: Benedictine
Pope and circumstance
So today we have a Pope retiring at 85—citing weariness of mind and body, an inability to keep the regimen of the Office—and every news outlet has used words li...
What good is a monk?
This morning I miss Father James, gone now coming four years. I visited three times a year for seven years—that’s 21 cups of tea, give or take. Not a long...
Meditation
There comes a time of emptiness, a time of fallow, a time when no nitrogen reaches the root, and you lie dormant as a grain of sand. Beneath this dune you try t...