Of Monks, Conversion, and Radio Astronomy, Part 1
By Richard Cole Guest Post In the middle of life, I fell in love. For my forty-ninth birthday, my wife Lauren gave me a three-day visit by myself at a monastery in South Texas. I went there simply to...
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Guest Post By Richard Cole —Continued from yesterday. On my second day at the abbey, I bounced around, trying to listen, to feel, to be in the moment like Carmen advised. It was a tough slog. “Waste...
View ArticleArt on Fire: The Life and Work of Melissa Weinman, Part 1
By: Richard Cole In a recent painting by Melissa Weinman, a small, white rose floats over darkness. The rose is in full blossom, almost blown, and crowned by a pale fire rising from its petals like...
View ArticleArt on Fire: The Life and Work of Melissa Weinman, Part 2
By Richard Cole Continued from yesterday. When Weinman completed her fellowship in Europe, she came back to the U.S., where she began a new life that included marriage, the birth of two daughters, and...
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