Missing Our Blessings
I’m home visiting my parents for a few weeks and something reminded me of these photos and blog post I wrote two years ago last month- before I started this blog and before I walked the. Camino. It was June…
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Walking With Grace Wednesday: A Decisive Moment
I did promise to post pictures of my week long silent retreat at the Cistercian (Trappists) Monastery, New Clairvaux, in Northern California. I discovered this remote monastery last year when the New York Times featured an article about their Sacred…
Walking With Grace Wednesday: A Refuge In The Desert
While visiting Santa Fe, New Mexico, for a photography workshop I wondered into a shop called The Monks Corner. It’s a pleasant little shop with handmade soaps and jam. Books written by spiritual masters line the shelves, gilded icons peer…
Photo Essay: St Meinrad Archabbey
Deep in the rolling hills of Southern Indiana, where empty corn fields sit and bales of hay are stacked high waiting to fill stables for the winter, lies St. Meinrad Archabbey. Perched on a hill, this Benedictine Monastery might remind…
Walking With Grace Wednesdays: A Prayer For The Journey On The Camino de Santiago
I’m leaving Molinaseca with a sense of magic on the Camino de Santiago. I suppose it was always there. But I’m just noticing it now. Last night I had dinner with a group of pilgrims, a young German woman that…
Photo of the Day: Carmelites By The Sea
Just outside Carmel’s bustling niche community lies the home of the Carmelite Sisters By The Sea. The monastery’s majestic tower stands tall among palm trees overlooking the northern Pacific coastline. The sisters remain cloistered behind these walls, closed off from the…