Tag: spirit
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The Call Of The Loon: A 1-Year Reflection From Lake George
Summer 2025 – The sound of the loon is consistent. How many creatures have been created by your sound? When one loon starts, another answers. The call of the loon is a lonely sound, yet here there is always a response to it. Fish splash sporadically. The night sky is very open and clear; every…
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Memorial day 2026
Ww2 veteran reflection We hear about battles in World War II and think it was so long ago. It wasn’t like everyone back then was so different from us. Yet, somehow, people just shrug it off and say, “That’s just how it was then,” or “People were different,” or “Yeah, it’s just what you expected.” …
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Binnewater: An unknown chapter of American History
Article – https://www.nytimes.com/1897/05/31/archives/strange-colony-in-ulster-a-fisheating-basketmaking-tribe-whose.html The Binnewater Lakes are a chain of five small lakes near the hamlet of Binnewater in the town of Rosendale, NY. In the late 1800s, this area was mainly populated by descendants of Dutch and Palatine settlers. While the Dutch influence is well-documented, the Palatine story is one of the most impactful,…
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Crystal Radio: Invisible Order and the Age of AI
We must keep asking questions, holding the curiosity of a child without its naivety and with a full sense of sound mind. There is too much eggheadedness and preparation today. You cannot prepare for such grief; you can only rely on what you already trust. There’s an old saying that is quite true: “Everybody has…
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Road to Emmaus
“Then He asked them, ‘What is this dispute that you’re having with each other as you are walking?’” And they stopped walking and looked discouraged. The one named Cleopas answered him, “Are you the only visitor in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things that happened therefore in these days?” “What things?” he asked them. So…
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A Fragmented Story
I Went to the gas station off the Thruway for snacks. You could tell right away he didn’t belong to the rhythm of the place. Everyone else moved with purpose. Grab, pay, leave. He lingered. Talking to no one and everyone at the same time. Layers of clothing that didn’t match the weather. Hair uneven.…
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The Unlosable Assignment
“I don’t say this out of need, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I find myself. I know how to make do with little, and I know how to make do with a lot. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being content, whether well fed or…
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A walk by the Wallkill
The Wallkill flows north and it flows slowly and crooked but this time of year it does not seem to be flowing at all. This river is old, they say many mastodon bones have been uncovered along its banks. What that means for sure is this river has been here longer than we can officially…
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Isaac Jogues: The Missionary Who Walked Back Into the Fire
The Thirty Years’ War was raging in Europe, fueling a near–cold-war divide between Protestant and Catholic powers. France, under Catholic monarchs like Louis XIII, was aggressively Counter-Reformationist, using the Jesuits as intellectual and spiritual shock troops to reclaim ground lost to Protestantism. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the New World was a chaotic frontier. French, English,…
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70,000 fathom ladder
The 70,000 fathom ladder – A man spent years climbing a huge ladder. People cheered him on, told him it led somewhere important. So he kept going step after step, never looking down. When he finally reached the top, he found nothing there. No platform. No door. No destination. Just empty air. Then he looked…
Pilgrims Ponder 