Under the Castor Oil Tree
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Luke is home

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I picked up Lukie's ashes today. They are in a little half-pint box. I'm used to human cremains--that weigh several pounds and are a...

Home again?

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I was at St. John's in Waterbury today to officiate at the funeral of Al King. Al had planned his funeral with me in 2007 but I had forg...
Friday, February 12, 2016

If we can live through the weekend...

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It's February in New England, what did we expect? The news is calling it 'life threatening cold'. And it is cold. Really cold....
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Dark and quiet and cold...

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I took Bela for his evening walk about 10:30 p.m. tonight. It was so dark and cold and quiet. The street lights on Cornwall Avenue aren...

owning up...

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Well, I did say I wasn't sure I could remember all the bishops of Connecticut.... My friend, Rowena, who is always delighted to commen...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

The simple man I am....

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OK, most of the time I think about myself, I think I am complicated, ironic, multi-dimensional, complex, nuanced, brilliant and difficult to...
Monday, February 8, 2016

More bishop stuff

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Two more Bishop Campbell stories--one as bad as the others, the other one no so. That summer I worked at HEP, I helped out at Grace Church...
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Under The Castor Oil Tree
some ponderings by an aging white man who is an Episcopal priest in Connecticut. Now retired but still working and still wondering what it all means...all of it.
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