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Springtime's work
… cards she had up her sleeve all winter long. Spring is a quickening of forces as complex as a tree’s buds and as simple as flowing water. By the simple fact of being alive we participate, for …
The medical care that is not care
… many of the beats as we can with her friends or at my table or in the garden where the apple tree blossoms, so sweetly and so briefly. [Melissa Musick Nussbaum is coauthor with Jana Bennett …
A life of change and renewal
… transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: A tree will show through a woman’s dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on …
Have no fear when the heat comes
… one who is aware that everything he or she is and has comes from God, that person is like a tree planted near water, thrust its roots toward the stream and has no fear when the heat comes; …
Tragic aftermath of Vietnam war
… explosion killed Nguyen on Friday morning, Feb. 12, as he was cutting weeds around his banana trees and preparing for the Tet holiday which began in Vietnam on Saturday. The accident occurred … It is believed that Nguyen hit a cluster munition while clearing weeds from around his banana trees, using the bush-hook. The area where he was working is a large cultivation site for over …
'Avatar': A theological movie
… For some Americans, Islam is a "strange religion." On Pandora, the strange faith is "tree worshipping." And except for a couple characters who cross over between the two worlds, …
Vatican's justice-peace head says what he thinks
… society in the past, there's likely to be a story which is told to prevent people from felling trees in that part of the region. The objective is clear, to protect the headwaters, but the …
Obama and the works of death
… snows have hemmed me in. There in the silence, surrounded for miles by white-topped juniper trees and distant mountains, I've immersed myself in the Gospel of John, in preparation for a …
What of the Earth economy?
… die a spiritual death.” About the same time a Cree Indian proverb emerged: “Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we … billions before being slaughtered? Louisiana remains in mourning for the vanquished cypress trees and other creatures that have deserted us. The very last jaguar died in the US southwest in …
Winter was not made in vain
… then added: "Shall we take refuge in the cities in November? Shall the nut fall green from the tree? Let not the year be disappointed of its crop. I knew a crazy man who walked into an empty …
Welcoming winter's clarity
… of brown, russet and tan. All these colors are muted and understated. The sillhouettes of tree branches against a sullen grey clouded sky look like a revelation. Winter contains the …
Sr. Mary Daniel Turner, RIP
… de Namur, said simply in her notice: “As with the dying of Mary Luke Tobin last year, a great tree has fallen.” May their strong and courageous spirits live on. …
Etty Hillesum's Inner Journey
… In the beauty of the smallest pebble, the petals of a flower, the curling branches of a tree, she could detect the entire cosmos, and this discovery made her burst out with the …
One of the world's great contemplatives
… all blue-black outside, and lovely; and the rain would thrash along by so thick that the trees off a little ways looked dim and spider-webby; and here would come a blast of wind that …
Thomas Merton in the city
… I was not allowed to go and see her. I was content to run in the woods with the dogs, or climb trees, or pester the chicken, or play in the clean little studio where Bonnemaman [his … house plan located on a nearly 9,000-square-foot corner lot. The house is surrounded by maple trees as per Merton’s description in The Seven Storey Mountain . The building is symmetrical at …
Bridge between dual realities
… with small gray pebbles and there is no color except for the green leaves of the poplar trees that line the main street of the camp. Memorial sites have been erected by Jews, Catholics, …
Developing Nicaragua with schools, bakeries and job training
… matter) was used for energy at the farm kitchen and the organic fertilizer was used for fruit trees. The woman in charge of the kitchen resisted using the gas because she was afraid of …
This land is my teacher
… yellow moon on there. There’s another one called provider. It’s almost the color of those trees -- wine color -- and the skin is almost like a rainbow. When you put it against the sun, it …
Caritas officer blogs experiences in Haiti
… else." People have been so hungry that Father Sena has given them all the bananas from the trees next to the presbytery. And they have been drinking unclean water because of low supplies. …
Haiti, desperate poverty even before the earthquake
… mix, it seems to be in the multiple expressions of poverty -- from the land itself, denuded of trees turned into cooking charcoal; to the shantytowns that have open sewerage, no running water, …