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Q: When I went to a monastic retreat a few months ago my “lost spirituality”…

Q: I am struggling between my family responsibilities as a married man and the desire to…

There is a thing in me that dreamed of trees, A quiet house, some green…

Q: I escaped a recent accident with minor injuries. A narrow escape. While I am…

The human heart can go the lengths of God… Dark and cold we may be,…

This morning as I walked along the lakeshore, I fell in love with a wren…

is not, for me, these grand vistas, sublime peaks, mist-filled overlooks, towering clouds, but doing…

We are the miracles that God made To taste the bitter fruit of Time. We…

  These words from the invocatory prelude to Anthony Damiani’s magnum opus, Astronoesis, convey his…

She is holding the book close to her body, carrying it home on the cracked…

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time passes swiftly and opportunity is lost. Let…

Q: Very recently, our next-door neighbors’ 17-year-old son was killed in a car accident. I…

My aspens dear, whose airy cage quelled, Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun,…

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man’s ingratitude; Thy tooth…

I could stand on the bridge and get the sense of being completely with her,…

All day a boy plunges his hands into his pockets. Tickets, tape, crystallized stones, a…

I love working with clay, I feel like I could work with it all day,…

“Why not eat potato salad on Christmas, is there a law?” Then you would describe…

You have ripened already, and you are waiting to be brought in. Your exhaustion is…

Twenty moves in eight years, one step ahead of the rent collector. Kitchen table, coal…