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The thing about love, if it is the genuine article and not some pale imitation of it, is that when one is in love one becomes profoundly humbled by the whole experience. One’s defects, which previously one had ignored or overlooked oir only sporadically attended to, now become glaringly obvious. Now the lover desperately wants…

There is snow, and then there is serious snow. I’m talkin’ blizzard here (and not the kind available at Dairy Queen). Thank God for 4 wheel drive trucks is all I can say or else I would never have gotten home over the mountain from Townsend where I went to the dentist this morning. When…

THE PRIORY The icicles hung on the eaves outsideBut the adams were gone on retreatThe caretaker said ‘only God is insideAnd there’s nothing here you can eat’. The chapel was silent, oppressively stillThe cross hung above the enclosureHard benches on the nave’s narrow sidesAnd next to them more than one crozier. Not a voice in…

SERENITY(at the Revolutionary War Cemetery) The calm after the storm,The clarity after reflectionThe acceptance of unchangeable thingsLike winter followed by spring. Peace, in the face of warSatisfaction, without moreThe acceptance of frustrating thingsHard hearts, heads, truths. Of this demanding demeanorFrancis did reassure Irresistible, immovable stonesAre best left alone. But wisdom to know the differenceBetween terminal…
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