Under the Castor Oil Tree
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Wearing a clerical collar....

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(I just noticed someone read this 2009 post, so I read it and thought I'd share it again for all the people who notice I never wear a cl...

Memorial Day, long ago

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When I was a kid, we used to go to Waiteville, West Virginia, my father's birthplace, every memorial day. There was a huge dinner served...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

Third time: lightening bugs, fireflies, all that

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This is the third time I've posted most of what is below. It's no longer the 4th mo st viewed post, but the 9th. And the bugs are...
Saturday, May 27, 2017

home

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It took 90 minutes or so to get to Holy Cross on Tuesday morning. It took about 3 hours to get back on Friday of Memorial Day weekend! Bum...
Monday, May 22, 2017

away again....

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I'm leaving in the morning for Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, New York (above the Hudson...a beautiful place!) for another Making a ...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Come on Holy Spirit....

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I'm still on this "God is not big enough" riff. In today's gospel from John, Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit--an ...
Friday, May 19, 2017

Kitchen Maid

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Diego Velazquez painted a black maid with the Emmaus dinner over her right shoulder. A remarkable painting. If I had the web where-with-all ...
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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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