Last night I was walking back to my car from Friedsam Library at St. Bonaventure University and I as I looked into the night I could barely make out the familiar lines of Merton’s Heart. It’s a clearing on the mountainside just south of the campus of St. Bonaventure University. As I looked up [...]
Posts Tagged ‘gratitude’
Grateful
Posted in St. Bonaventure University, Thomas Merton, gratitude, tagged Franciscan, Franklinville, gratitude, St. Bonaventure University, Thomas Merton on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Francis Week
Posted in Spiritual, St. Bonaventure University, gratitude, tagged gratitude, Secular Franciscan, St. Bonaventure University, St. Francis of Assisi, Transitus on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week I actually attended more liturgical services at St. Bonaventure University than at any other time in my life. Since I’m now a graduate student there that is probably not too surprising, but it was a personal first. Last week I attended Sunday Mass and again this evening I joined the university community for [...]
Morning Fog
Posted in gratitude, mindfulness, mystic, tagged Carl Sandburg, contemplative, fog, gratitude, Ruach on September 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Carl Sandburg had a poem about the fog.
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
Carl Sandburg
That poem is with me this morning as I sit looking at the fog that covers the valley in front of me. I’m sitting here enjoying a fresh cup of [...]
Growth
Posted in Education, Mt. Irenaeus, St. Bonaventure University, Thomas Merton, gratitude, mindfulness, tagged contemplative, gratitude, Mt. Irenaeus, St. Bonaventure University, summer, Thomas Merton on September 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Summer is a time of growth and my summer has certainly been that this year for me. This spring or at least early June didn’t start out that way. I thought it was the end and that I’d be leaving and going elsewhere to begin a retirement and whatever that may have held. I even [...]
Lake Murray
Posted in gratitude, mindfulness, tagged family, gratitude, Lake Murray, South Carolina on August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve been spending the last few days in sunny South Carolina thanks to the hospitality of my brother and his family. It’s been thirteen years since our last visit to Lake Murray. It is a lovely lake and a wonderful experience heightened by the fact that it’s something we don’t get to do as [...]
Epiphany
Posted in culture, gratitude, mystic, tagged A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink, Epiphany, gratitude, left brain, MBA, mystic, right brain on August 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe most people already knew this and maybe I’m just catching up but Daniel Pink’s book has been a real insight for me. What chance that I would take a picture of the labyrinth at Mt. Irenaeus, upload it with my Blackberry to Facebook an that it would invite a conversation that would lead me [...]
I will remember
Posted in News, gratitude, publishing, pundits, tagged gratitude, Walter Cronkite on July 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today we lost another legend. Walter Cronkite was the man upon whom a generation of Americans depended for the news. In the days before cable news and now the blogosphere we depended on Walter Cronkite to give us the news. Every night at 6:30 pm I would sit in our family room with my Mom, [...]
His music will live forever.
Posted in culture, gratitude, tagged gratitude, Michael Jackson on July 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I came across this on MIchael Jackson’s website tonight. It’s been a bit over three weeks now since we learned of Michael’s death. It’s hard to believe he’s gone. I was not a Jackson 5 fan, but I became a Michael Jackson fan in the 1980’s when he released Billie Jean. He just captivated me [...]
Taste of Buffalo
Posted in Buffalo, Western New York, arts, gratitude, tagged gratitude, Taste of Buffalo on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today I made it to the Taste of Buffalo for the first time in my life thanks to my daughter. She’s working in Buffalo now and living close by and thanks to her invitation I actually ventured into the big city to taste some of the hundreds of different items there were to sample from [...]
Life in the country
Posted in Thomas Merton, gratitude, travel, tagged Bed & Breakfast, contemplative, gratitude, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Shaw Festival on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I got this quote in today’s mail and it made me grateful for my own life and even the past two days which were spent not in my own country but in the lake country of Canada. Diane and I spent a weekend at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario at a lovely bed & breakfast called Blueberry Gate. [...]
