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It Really Wasn’t So Bad, Before The Mayhem…

Posted on April 5, 2020 by

It’s difficult to articulate, much less to narrate the sense of loss those of us in distant places are feeling watching America’s epic struggle. I am, and have been for some time the King of Lost Places – a reign … Continue reading →

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To Talk of Many Things… (Vol. #9 – Coronavirus)

Posted on March 17, 2020 by

“It seems a shame,” the Walrus said, “To play them such a trick. After we’ve brought them out so far, And made them trot so quick!” There’s a new resoluteness, a steadfastness, a single-mindedness that is gripping America in the … Continue reading →

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“What is Covetousness?” asked my little boy

Posted on February 21, 2020 by

Dinner, a bath, brush teeth, and into bed for a story. Children need structure, they need their rituals – they need to know what comes next; it gives them security. And the bedtime rituals are as old as childhood itself. … Continue reading →

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I Am Not Raising A “Greta”

Posted on February 10, 2020 by

I am not raising a Greta. It’s not really right; in fact the tragedy of that train-wreck sometimes takes my breath away. Life is sad enough, hard enough, and with more bitterness and frustration all of its own to foist … Continue reading →

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“Two Popes”

Posted on January 9, 2020 by

Once when I was a little boy, growing up in the highlands of northwestern Argentina my little town received a visitor: a pope. The military junta was in its final tragic burst of power before sputtering out, pinning its hopes … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas From Another Lost Place: This One Ancient and Cold

Posted on December 24, 2019 by

A while ago I wrote about a Christmas in the Sahara; a lost place far from the hubbub of the holidays in places cold and clean. A Muslim place which did not consider Jesus or His condescension to meet us … Continue reading →

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To Talk of Many Things… (Vol. #7 – Influence)

Posted on November 28, 2019 by

They wept like anything to see Such quantities of sand: “If this were only cleared away,” They said, “it would be grand!” I was walking through an ancient monastery yesterday, Thanksgiving Day, in a place lost in time and history. … Continue reading →

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