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Blending in
One of the pleasures of my time on retreat was settling into the rhythm of the liturgy of the hours, praying alongside the monks throughout the day. For someone who loves going to church, that routine...
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2025: What I read (and wrote, and said, and sang)
Reading this year has been…complicated. See, this year I have been deep in preparing for comprehensive exams, which means most of my reading has names like “A History of Catholic Theological Ethics”...
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What I read, 2022
The beach, the library, my couch, my bed, planes, trains and automobiles – I read lots of places this year! Between shedding one of my many extra jobs in January and taking classes that encouraged...
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Finding Lady’s Wells
I told them I was going for a run, but that wasn’t the whole story. When driving to our accommodations in west Cork, I spied from the passenger seat a sign marking a “Lady’s Well and Mass Rock” and...
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One note at a time
Yesterday morning I realized I was cracking up. Out running I reached the point of drenched detachment at which I could look at the last few weeks, and it wasn’t pretty. The weight of everything –...
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What I read, 2022
The beach, the library, my couch, my bed, planes, trains and automobiles – I read lots of places this year! Between shedding one of my many extra jobs in January and taking classes that encouraged...
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Finding Lady’s Wells
I told them I was going for a run, but that wasn’t the whole story. When driving to our accommodations in west Cork, I spied from the passenger seat a sign marking a “Lady’s Well and Mass Rock” and...
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One note at a time
Yesterday morning I realized I was cracking up. Out running I reached the point of drenched detachment at which I could look at the last few weeks, and it wasn’t pretty. The weight of everything –...
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Teach us to number our days aright
Many years ago I visited Pompei. I knew that my grandmother had been born in a small town not far from nearby Naples, and as our bus drove around the city on the autostrada I looked up into the...
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The blessedness of place
Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place… – T.S. Eliot, from Ash Wednesday I spent last weekend in the Berkshires, a region of western Massachusetts near the northern...
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What I’m Into (Winter 2017)
As usual the busyness of winter has gotten the better of me and I haven’t shared what I’ve been up to in a few months. Here are my highlights and recommendations, with the encouragement of Leigh Kramer...
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The weariness of remembering
Where I Was This is the time when we are exhorted to remember the tragedy of September 11th. We hear stories of sorrow and heroism that have been told hundreds of times, and we hear the stories that...
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My one word for 2016: Create
Looking back over the archives, I realized it has been three years since I last wrote about choosing one intentional word to guide my year. The great team at OneWord365 encouraged me to do it in the...
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Mercy all around
Today the Church, led by Pope Francis, begins a Jubilee Year of Mercy. In preparing to discuss this with students I spent a lot of time reading about and contemplating mercy. Giving myself time to...
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What I’m into, Sept/Oct 2015
I had such high hopes for keeping up a monthly report of what I am into, but again the madness of the academic year has overtaken my best intentions, and I am doing a two month round up once again. As...
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That marriage might make me holy
About four years ago I started to crack up. This isn’t that unusual for me, as I find myself “grieving over Goldengrove unleaving” during October, but that year was different. And I could be excused...
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What I’m into, July 2015
I hope everyone is enjoying the dog days of summer! I’ve been indulging my love of the heat, elaxation, time with my sweetie and reading on beaches all over. Though this photo shows me catching up on...
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Singing through the Messiah
Voice lessons are all about best use of the voice – catching overtones, tuning perfectly, collaborating with accompanists, singing powerful, gracefully, cleanly, and with control. Until this week I...
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Ready to be peaceful
We are asked throughout Advent to stay ready. For these days of Advent I invite you to reflect with me on the many forms of readiness. I used to be the kind of person about whom people said “so young,...
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OOPS! An apology to subscribers
A few hours ago, while trying to resolve an issue with the import to my blog, emails were sent to many subscribers with all of the posts I wrote between 2008-early 2011. How many posts? A bazillion....
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