Letters from a Part-time Hermit
Well, I’m not exactly sure. Come puzzle it out with me, or just listen in. Solitude has always been a pull for me. Reading about hermits has taken up a fair bit of my spare time, and I once spent a month in a hermitage at a monastery. (It was both sublime and crazy-making.) I st…
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The house we bought here in Indianapolis last fall is great, but it isn’t the hermit house of my dreams. I used to be obsessed with tiny houses (as I m…
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Facing the middle of Lent and a year of pandemic
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For months, my friend Dave tried to say the daily office from The Book of Common Prayer every morning, as soon as he woke up. He’s a deeply spiritual m…
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Last week, I came across an ad for a book called Think Like a Monk. The author spent time in a monastery and turned his experience into a list of ways …
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“Advent begins in the dark…” Fleming Rutledge writes. Many people imagine “solitude” as a dim place — of loneliness, abandonment, or shame. Loneliness …
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