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Sunday, April 30, 2017

Buona terza Domenica dopo la Pasqua

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Yesterday I just felt not very well. I think I was having a bad reaction to the supplements I take. (It's a post-chemo thing.) I f...
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Tuesday, April 04, 2017

Taking the adventure

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The new garden; gardener of all I survey... Well, that's it. The next phase is beginning. The house in Norcia is empty, and all my ...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Perugia

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Well, that's settled.  I've been charging around, all over Umbria for three weeks - Norcia, Narni, Terni, Citta di Castel...
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Saturday, March 04, 2017

Mendicant

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Update. Narni is a total bust. The town is totally everything you might think it ought to be. It's beautiful and friendly and wonderf...
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Friday, March 03, 2017

Melting the polar caps

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(I'm afraid I couldn't possibly be a real nun. I like rocking out to Pearl Jam WAY too much. But don't worry. I know I'm a...
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Monday, February 27, 2017

Electricity: that's when all the trouble started...

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You don't have to live like they tell you. What's going to happen if you break all the rules and want something the world tells y...
Friday, February 24, 2017

Warm welcome in chilly Cascia

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Overnight in Cascia in a freezing cold but otherwise perfectly adequate little pilgrim's hotel (Blankets... lots and lots of blankets......
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

I'm here, and ... it's awful...

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I got off the bus yesterday in the brilliant sunshine, and a feeling of gloom and hopelessness settled over me like a dark fog. Fr. Benedi...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Goblin Market

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I've been re-reading Ursula K. LeGuin's magnificent Earthsea trilogy, and I am remembering why these early, "classic"...
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Friday, February 10, 2017

Who shakes the earth out of its place; and its pillars tremble…

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Today is the Feast of Santa Scolastica, hermitess and patron of Benedictine nuns, the saint under whose protection I place myself and my f...
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