"I like this song fifty hundred percent" — my 6 y/o open.spotify.com/track/4nI1OUCE…

10 years ago I played a concert at a seminary in Uzhhorod, #Ukraine. At the end of the show, they sang for me. It was a truly beautiful & unexpected moment. I pray that these men, wherever they are now, can bring hope to those suffering in this war. To me, their song is #peace.

I consider myself a religious people and I agree. RL beats the TL every time.

A girl in a bomb shelter plays the violin composition «Ніч яка місячна»

A canticle for our times, truly.

We can talk about politics & hyperpolarization. We can talk about vaccines. We can talk about kids, smartphones & how kids shouldn't have smartphones. We can talk about all that gets lost when we limit discourse to 288 characters. But under no circumstances will we talk about Bru

"okay but be aware that if you deny body sensors access for the Google Play Services app, then basic features of your device may no longer function as intended" — 𝚝̶𝚑̶𝚎̶ ̶𝚍̶𝚎̶𝚟̶𝚒̶𝚕̶ my phone

A friend's wife came to the U.S. from Poland as a child. Her family immigrated in the '80s. I once asked her, "What sticks out to you, as a kind of culture-shock memory?" "Butter," she said. "Going to the grocery store and seeing so much butter, and so many different kinds."

"...the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived Faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." — George Eliot

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"If I have ever imitated anything good for the sake of my God whom I love, I ask that he grant me to be able to shed my blood with these converts and captives—even were I to lack a grave for burial, or my dead body were to be miserably torn apart limb from limb..." — St. Patrick

I was perusing the used CDs at a 2nd & Charles this afternoon when I found my own album. It was right in between the Goo Goo Dolls and natalie imbruglia. Is this what "making it" feels like?

For the Annuciation today, my poem “On the Feast of the Annunciation” from The Windhover 2021, vol 25.1.

War is always a defeat for humanity. Last August I put together a special episode of Song & Story Podcast that chronicles the evolution of my thoughts on the morality of nuclear war. It's a sonic trip through history. And it feels increasingly apropos. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bon…

Sunset from space.

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” (Viktor Frankl)

What we have the right to do. What we are inclined to do. What we may want to do. What we ought to do. Which is the road least traveled?

"Only here at the monastery, I stopped hating. Last Sunday, I even prayed for Putin." bbc.com/news/av/world-…

been thinking about this a lot lately

"And while social media has eroded the art of association throughout society, it may be leaving its deepest and most enduring marks on adolescents." –– Jonathan Haidt theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…