Tired of Winter

Sometimes the rain and the cold makes heroes of blankets and tea. But the rest of the time it just makes you want Spring. Spring I am ready for you.

Post Vietnam

My great plan of blogging my Vietnam trip crashed with the intermittent internet and the exhaustion of engaging in work in lets face it (although I love humidity and the heat) less than helpful environment. It all happened excessively fast (as these things do). I found it a weird cross reference of Solmons climate to [...]

Grace be with you

Perhaps we all hang on to some odd things from our childhood,  I have a great appreciation for a musician my parents were in to (I’m not sure I actually enjoyed it when I was younger)-  the youtube clip is a bit feral (fashion/glasses/context/filming/sound), so here are the lyrics. They are simple and true. Based [...]

The myth of results

I’m terribly sorry to have stolen a whole whopper of a quote off Simon Moyle (and consequently Thomas Merton, oh whom I am rather a fan) but this is too valuable not to share. On February 15 Forest wrote that he was in a bleak mood; no one seemed to be listening to CPF (Catholic [...]

Concious of the divine

God, in creating me, in breathing me into being, always stays with me along the course of my life. My prayer, therefore, is my effort to bring into into consciousness the divine and blessed mystery always with me and before me.  -Sacred Space