https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCr2tn4yYKY&list=RDIqK8QwxmiyE&index=2 A little more than 35 years ago, I flew across the country from PDX to Baltimore for a Silent Retreat at the then last traditional Episcopalian convent where the nuns lived in traditional habits and kept all the traditional rules - The All Saints Sisters of the Poor. Few things in my life have …
Learning to have some regard for human frailty
C.K. Dexter Haven. That's Cary Grant's name in The Philadelphia Story. Archibald Leach was his name when he was a boy in Bristol and not yet an actor in Hollywood. C.K. Dexter Haven was a little confusing to me the first time I came across him. I'm not sure I had ever seen any of …
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Of Lego Bricks and Dust Bunnies
It's time.Nobody really told me about this. Or, if they did, I wasn't listening. I didn't hear about it. I just got clobbered by basic pattern recognition enough times for it to sink in. Here it is: Life is Revisions. It's all a do-over, but not with your feet in the same river. You never …
Wailing Her Lament
None of my other attempts at making a piece of writing have worked properly this week. I shall have to write the only thing I have in my body. In my whole being I can only think, "Don't tell me to feel better! Don't comfort me! Do. Not. Sympathize! YOU are not HIM." I have …
Returned, With Thanks
Eventually, I hope to arrange into short chapters a kind of spiritual memoir about the Apostrophe of time and perception - the time out - the contraction - that was my October, November, and December of 2025. I put a lot of it onto Facebook posts as it was happening. And I have been living …
This one is about AI
You can watch it on YouTube, and you can get it as podcast for audio only. If you're at all interested in what's happening in the world of so-called Artificial Intelligence (as Gebru explains, the term's a problem), you'll want to give this one a listen. For my part, the ham-fisted, knuckle-headed, grunting, ketamine-fueled, YOLO-brained, …
What’s in here
This category takes its name from a quote attributed to Saint Amphilochios of Patmos by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware. "Do you know, he said, that God gave us one more commandment, which is not recorded in Scripture? It is the commandment 'love the trees.' Whoever does not love trees, so he believed, does not love God. …
What’s in here
Once, when I was on a plane that was headed to the east coast from the west coast of the USA, a sat beside a man who lived most of the time in San Diego. It was winter, and he was flying out to find some snow and ice because, he said, he was "tired …
What’s in here
This is a category for photos and video, taken while out on a walk, or at a particularly glorious sunrise or sunset, or at a new snowfall. Here is where the natural world can be captured in pixels - so, never really captured at all, but shared.
What’s in Here
This is a category saved for aphorisms and cultural snippets of wisdom that I'd want on a bookmark. "Sit on your eggs." "You are carrying too many melons." "I need to hatch." Stuff like that.
