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Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things.
---Thomas Merton

Tag: resurrection

Bamboo Can Lay Dormant for Ten Years Before Sprouting

This year’s Easter Email:
On this day of rising, I’m waiting for my hot cross buns to plump. Yeast takes time. So does resurrection. We call it Lent and now it is finished and he is risen. (Note that I’m glad my pastries don’t need 40 days of preparation.) It may [...]

Locked and Lenten

In an aberrant moment of responsibility, I locked the door in my euphoria for buying materials for brewing. The only problem was that the items I so carefully secured in our apartment included my keys. So I could get neither the elements of beer nor into my residence. After some unsuccessful efforts [...]