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All Is Sacrament – Let Us Bow

Posted on March 21, 2021 by opreach

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To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation. When we do it knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, destructively, it is a desecration. – Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land… Continue Reading “All Is Sacrament – Let Us Bow”

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The Fruit of a Gentle Life

Posted on January 25, 2021 by opreach

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. . . a life of kind words and gentle gestures, planting seeds and seeking peace—where could that lead? – Kim Stafford, from “Connect the Dots” Starting on February 11, 2021, Santa Sabina Center’s will offer an Online Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Speak Beauty to… Continue Reading “The Fruit of a Gentle Life”

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The Fruits of Gratitude

Posted on November 19, 2017 by opreach

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Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth. – attributed to Sophocles

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Wisdom from Galileo

Posted on January 15, 2014 by opreach

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. – Galileo Galilei

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