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Virginia

In Virginia visiting the family. Went on a field trip with my brother Pat, his daughter Amy, and his grandchildren Levi and Sadie. First stop, lunch at a local burger restaurant.   Then off to the art museum. This was a display for children that was designed to get them to look at and think […]

Silent Retreat – December 2021

New Camaldoli Hermitage Silent Retreat December 05 to 11, 2021 Journal “I live in that solitude which is so painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” Albert Einstein Sunday 05 DEC 2021 Since 2017 I have been making one or more trips each year to the New Camaldoli Hermitage. The Camaldolese are […]

The 30th

I have been wondering what I could possibly do to mark this relationship milestone that would come anywhere near expressing the depth of wonderment and gratitude I have for my life partner Elsebeth. She has been my best friend, lover, a marvelous mother to our beautiful daughter.  She has taught me how to think with […]

Love

Perennial wisdom is a concept that holds that all the world’s enduring spiritual traditions share a single truth; a prisca theologia which is the foundation of all religions, in which each manifest itself in a form according to each cultures’ language, idioms, and time in history. Huston Smith, a renowned scholar of religious studies, thought […]