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“Is your father a person of faith?” A number of people have asked me this question since he posted news about his pancreatic cancer. Here are some of my reflections. “A Person of Hope”sacredheartuniversity.typepa…
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I was so glad to have this deep conversation with 96-yr-old Br David Steindl-Rast, a modern spiritual master, about his new book, "You Are Here: Keywords for Life Explorers." @OrbisBooks @grateful_org piped.video/watch?v=UtoGPjeE…
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I found this clip from an email taped to my dad’s computer. I sent it to him at a time of discouragement when he was ready to give up writing his book “The Doomsday Machine.”
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So proud of my sister @MaryEllsberg, receiving Presidential Medal from George Washington University where she is Founding Director of the Global Women’s Institute. An epidemiologist and activist she has done much to document and elevate recognition of violence vs women and girls.
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“Is there not a movie called Possum Day?” What’s it about? “It’s about a possum or some little creature who comes out.”
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Cyprian Davis OSB, pioneer historian of Black Catholics in America died May 18 2015. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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Scraps of poetry, remembered over a lifetime, float to the surface: Auden, Jeffers, Neruda, Yeats, Shakespeare: “I am dying, Egypt, dying; only
I here importune death awhile, until
Of many thousand kisses the poor last
I lay up thy lips.” And Edna st Millay:
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Watching his favorite movie— which he has seen a dozen times, including the night the Pentagon Papers were published. “I met Paul Newman once. He offered me a beer and when I declined I had the sense he had no more use for me.”
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For the 90th anniversary of the Catholic Worker, titles by Dorothy Day are 25% off. See OrbisBooks.com
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I sang some of my dad’s favorite songs by Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. He asked to hold the guitar. “When I was facing prison for the Pentagon Papers I thought maybe I would learn to play the guitar. But I wondered— do they let you have guitars in prison?”
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Peter Maurin, the French peasant-philosopher who inspired Dorothy Day to start the Catholic Worker, died May 15 1949. My reflection from @GiveUsThisDayLP
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