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…
Some red hearts and pink cookies can be good for the soul - and the whole world
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Last month, on a road trip, I left my wallet at a maple syrup stand in Western Massachusetts. I didn’t realize this until we were 100 miles away. But my…
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Last month, I tried to visit the library at the local mainline seminary. When I walked in . . . the room was empty. No books. No shelves. All gone! But…
On a hot and sunny Saturday last month, I went to an art fair. There was a small town of white pop-up tents with a hundred fifty artists, sharing…
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A check-in on my attempt to buy no new stuff from New Year's until Easter
Once upon a time, there was an African hermit who, without really intending to, became the abbot of a bunch of other hermits out in the Egyptian desert…
This is the time of year when I want to throw everything away.
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Letters from a Part-time Hermit