February 2012
11 posts
“Big gestures represent a person’s power, small gestures represent a...”
– Fr. Chen from this week’s homily
ON TURNING TEN
by Billy Collins
(Thank you, Ron, for sharing this with me!)
The whole idea of it makes me feel like I’m coming down with something, something worse than any stomach ache or the headaches I get from reading in bad light— a kind of measles of the spirit, a mumps of the psyche, a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul. You tell me it is too early to be looking back, but that is because...
January 2012
12 posts
THIS I BELIEVE
Coming soon.
This year the Story(ies) of A Girl are back in this blog!
“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and...”
– Neil Gaiman
December 2011
6 posts
2011
It comes as a comfort that we close every year with a sense of gratitude. When we look back at the totality of 365 days, there is always a “thank you” for all that has happened regardless of how we may have felt within the year.
2011, you were a game changer. You were a curve ball thrown from outer field and while you will now be just another year, know that you will remain one of my...
November 2011
3 posts
Host Duties
Struggling to get through an extremely busy week with the happy thought of hosting six visitors in a span of two and a half weeks. First visitor moves into Casa Carmel this Friday, just as this exhausting work week ends!
October 2011
14 posts
Home
Manila on my mind. See you this Friday!
“To those who stay put, the world is but an imaginary place. But to the movers,...”
– Invisible Children
“Over the past week I’ve twice heard twenty-somethings wonder whether kids...”
– Raul Gutierrez
September 2011
16 posts
KINDNESS
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, the passengers...
