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Update on My Blog
Thank you all for your interest and engagement with my blog. It means a great deal to me. I wanted to share with you all an exciting update. I have decided to switch my blog over to the SubStack Platform. This platform is both free and has the added benefit of being a central location…
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Remember to Keep Your Head Up
There are only two homilies I remember from high school masses. Truthfully, I am surprised I remember any. One was about family dynamics. The other was about a tip our Jesuit priest learned while walking on a pilgrimage. It is the latter homily and its message that has continued to come to mind over the…
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Cringy Old Journal Entries
If you keep your old journals, then you know looking back at them can be quite a cringe experience. But perhaps the greater the cringe the greater the honesty? Right? Asking for a friend… This past journal entry was written during one of the most difficult transitions in my adult life. I had just finished…
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So What Do We Do Now?
Yesterday, January 20th, 2025, was a day swelling with emotion. In many parts of the world, it was a normal Monday, but here in the United States it was the second inauguration of President Trump juxtaposed to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Two men that could not be more different. Trump’s second term brings with…
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Hummingbird Mornings
I am not a morning person, at least not by nature. But most mornings, I get up before the sun and sit outside in our garden next to a hummingbird feeder and under a large palm tree with the gentle bubbling of water bouncing off rock and tile in a nearby fountain. It is winter…
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Everyone is a Creator
Everyone is a Creator Those who do not engage in the traditional arts might be wary of calling themselves artists. They might perceive creativity as something extraordinary or beyond their capabilities. A calling for the special few who are born with these gifts. Fortunately, this is not the case. Creativity is not a rare ability. It is…
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Reflecting on a Fictional Friar
One of the more well-known Hollywood friars is Friar Tuck—part of Robin Hood’s merry men. While it is most likely that Friar Tuck is merely an archetype of the period, we will claim him as a jovial Franciscan Friar for our purposes. In Ridley Scott’s version of the story released in 2010 with Russel…
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Tradition
When I say the word Tradition, what comes to mind? All of these can be correct, of course, and often traditions will encapsulate more than one of these. Tradition, defined in a general way, is a set of customs or beliefs that are passed down from one generation to the next. However, the standard definition of a…
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Claiming Our Life
You must never stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life. I don’t mean it’s easy or assured; there are the stubborn stumps of shame, grief that remains unsolvable after all the years, a bag of stones that goes with one wherever one goes and however the…
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Reflections from a European Bicycle Tour
Over the past (almost) month, I toured around Western Europe on my bicycle—from Athens to Amsterdam. This bicycle tour, however, included trains and ferries, and, in many ways, became more of a European wandering than a bicycle tour. I ended up riding half as many miles as I had planned and I stayed in places…
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