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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, …
Stammering about abortion
… dreams.” She dreams of “buckets of blood splashed on walls” and “fetuses crawling in the trees,” and then wakes and thinks of kitchen tables, coat hangers, and women “clutching a pillow …
Permaculture: a good idea
… the limited rainfall in the area, with an uncompacted earth mound in the lower part used as a tree growing system. Drip irrigation was installed under layers of thick organic mulch obtained … necessary where evaporation is high and salted land the consequence. A diversity of fruit trees were planted, and for each of the fruit trees, three fast growing pioneer and nitrogen fixing trees were also planted. This design mimics …
Cairo Journal
… model peacemaker -- gentle, wise and friendly, always with a smile like Buddha under the Bodhi tree. Whenever someone greets her, she reaches out and clasps their hand. While she spoke, scores … hospitals, 38 primary healthcare centers, and 280 schools. 250 wells were destroyed, 300,000 trees uprooted and large sections of agricultural land were made no longer arable, in part …
Jan. 11, Blessed William Carter, Martyr
… Marble Arch, bearing the image of a plain black cross and the words: 'The site of the Tyburn Tree.'" …
Gay marriage in Latin America, and a breakaway church in Uganda
… is, from this point of view, a peculiarly Western form of missing the forest for the trees. Each of these three views has eminent spokespersons, and in vintage Catholic fashion one …
Riffing with myth
… The role of religion in the primal mythology of "Avatar" is strong. The role and image of the tree in the film is straight out of Genesis, and Pandora seems like a Garden of Eden. Though …
Locating the holy
… than there was the day the Red Sea parted … . There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha’s bo tree. … In any instant, the sacred may wipe you with its finger, in any instant the bush may flare, your feet may rise, or you may see a bunch of souls in a tree. In any instant you may avail yourself of the power to love your enemies… The time of the …
It's Never Too Late
… problems from the Great Depression, he nevertheless went out and planted a row of redwood trees. He told his grandson that he would live to see them grow tall. Ten years later he had recovered his financial losses. He died in peace having seen his redwood trees grown tall. Regardless of your age, health, or financial status, as you read this … says, “You’re not finished yet. Don’t stop growing.” Today, if you lack the space to plant a tree, then plant a dream. Plan for something that you like to do; most importantly, be. Help me …
Too Wondrously Incredible
… rumbling engines of work, as well as in the organ music of cathedrals. All lighted Christmas trees should illuminate every tree and bush as being aflame with the Divine Mystery. The core of Christmas is too naughty to go …
The ax is laid to the root of the tree
… in a way that goes far beyond the old covenant. "The ax is already laid to the root of the tree. Every tree that fails to produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire." Produce now the … words show us what John the Baptist meant when he said Jesus will come and take the ax to the tree. He will bring about radical, profound change. "I tell you, God can make sons and daughters …
UN climate change talks reach the final stretch
… a full legal climate treaty by July 2010. Describing “runaway melt” of the Earth’s ice, rising tree mortality and prospects of severe water scarcities, Gore told a U.N. audience: “In the face …
Obama's Nobel war speech
… chief axiom of nonviolence says the very opposite. The ends lie within the means, just as the tree exists within the seed. How can the anguish of war -- destruction, displacement, hunger, …
Lady Madonna, cyclists at her feet
… A painting of the Madonna del Ghisallo by local artist Martin Wolfe hangs above a tree of candles where cyclists can park and sit in reflection. Visitors, Parker said, can offer …
Should you choose a real or artificial Christmas tree?
… Rich Heffern … The Green Home feature from the Sierra Club offers these tips on Christmas tree selection: "It seems that the battle between real and artificial holiday trees is as old as the tree-decorating tradition itself. Artificial trees were invented in the …