malibumark

I think I’m realizing that it’s important to keep calm, not only for our own sake, but also for the people around us.Its an important responsibility I think.im sitting in the nuns' living...

Oh, I think I have figured it out.Why I seek an image or a standard to sustain me or to hold onto when I try and do something.. It is my nature. I am not so strong at times and I seek something to...

I'm showered and dressed and ready to go down to chapel ina little while to set it up -I feel like goofing off but the sisters have my activities fullyplanned until it's time to go to work today.I...

I am learning that in relationships there is a dualityof a kind. There's a mix in our feelings - We may love someone for our connection and who they areand then conversely we are faced with a prickly...

a couple things I wrote today.I was losing my shi*tSo many rules here at the monasterySuch a premium in doing things predictable From dress to talking to each other  and then I wrote...

I went to the pub - I had a drink, a diet coke and a plate of cheese curds.It was nice - I headed back home and stopped off at the 7 - 11 and gota lighter for my new scented candle as well as a...

I'll admit, I know I have a blindspot about certain things in my life.I know that we each tend to as well - and that's natural I think - and the thingswe struggle with in, life, may be a  fallout...

I did a little retail therapy just now. I ordered a nest candle and a bonsai tree to be delivered:)I'm trying to learn to calm myself down. Even after retail therapy.I invited one of the novices for...

It's Greek Orthodox Easter,the greeting is: CHRISTOS ANESTI!!!(Christ has arisen!)the response is: ALITHOS ANESTI!!!(Indeed he has arisen!!!):-) !!

The weather could not be better!… sunny, mild and refreshing breezes! Just got home from work! Got the radio on and opened the window for Blue! I was doing the compost duty out by the chicken coop...