Continued excerpts from my journal reflecting on my retreat at New Melleray Abbey:
Later…Pine trees, snow, and a fat cat.
Meowing outside my window at the moment, as he was during Mass, breakfast, and generally the entire time from 6:30 am, is an enormous fat tiger cat. I think he used to getting fed, [...]
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The following are excerpts from my journal reflecting on a recent retreat at New Melleray Abbey, a Trappist monastery in Peosta, IA:
Monday, March 31st, 2008
12:37 pm
It’s a bit of a lie to title this “New Melleray” when technically I’m still in Chicago, about 100 miles (perhaps less, perhaps more) away from the Abbey; and [...]
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