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I have prevailed upon my good friend and persona Brother Jeremiah of the Divine Order of the Buile Shuibhne* to write the occasional letter on spiritual subjects. He agreed, on the condition that I not edit him at all. What follows is the first in a series. Homilies of Br. Jeremiah, OBS As a species, we humans have a penchant for creating myths. Of particular relevance to this article are the heroes. From Achilles to Sampson to Cuchulain, to Superman, we seem to want someone who can by-pass the mundane and messy process of conflict resolution and use whatever powers they have to just get [...] This scene takes place in April of 1988 in a farmhouse in Roscommon Ireland, near the town of Burkesbridge, belonging to an old shenache, a storyteller and guardian of the invisible world, named Moira McCarthy. 12-year-old Margaret McNeill Mahoney is by her own account, the brightest student at the La Madeleine Academy for [...] Lately, I have been DVRing old episodes of Route 66 broadcast on my local cable channel at two in the morning. Okay, a lot of my interest is rooted in pure nostalgia. Route 66 was my favorite show when I was in high school, particularly those episodes with George Maharis as Buz [...] I love trains. I always have. In this I am not very unusual. Everybody, it seems, shares an abiding love of trains. All of my children, when they were very young, loved when we had to stop at railroad crossings because they were transfixed by the sounds of the wheels on [...] |
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