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CHRISTMAS PRAYER
A CHRISTMAS PRAYER(George MacDonald)Loving looks the large-eyed cow,Loving stares...
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FLIGHT
StanislawOstoja-Chrostowski- Poland, 1930 Through every precinct of the wintry citySquadroned iron resounds upon the streets;Herod’s policeMake shudder the dark steps of the tenementsAt the business...
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MAN of the YEAR
The “Man of the Year” is in many people’s minds, Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky. He has even been compared to Churchill. There is no doubt that he has led his country through the worst...
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PASSING TO THE FATHER
Sad as it is to lose a powerful figure in our Church, we rejoice that POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT XVI has gone to the Father.His papacy was short, (almost eight years), and yet he contributed much to...
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GIFTS
The Journey Of The Magi by T.S. EliotA cold coming we had of it,Just the worst time of the yearFor a journey, and such a long journey:The ways deep and the weather sharp,The very dead of winter.’ And...
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SAINTS IN THE NEW YEAR
Pope Benedict XVI in a homily for Epiphany in 2013.The saints are God’s true constellations, which light up the nights of this world, serving as our guides. Saint Paul, in his Letter to the...
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SKIES OVER MONASTERY FARM
Our friend Maryam Larki recently took this photo looking out to the bay.December and January morning skies have been wondrous!
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UNDERSTANDING SUFFERING- POLISH DOCTOR
“She was the only one who didn't let me feel my past. When I got out of prison, she fed me, gave me my first glasses and money for my ID card. She got a job. I was proud then, because someone trusted...
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A MONK DIES- BUT NOT HIS ART
Considered by many to be one of Canada’s most original artists, FATHER DUNSTAN MASSEY, OSBdied on December 26, 2022 at Westminster Abbey in Mission, outside of Vancouver. Born and raised in...
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YOUNG PATRON OF DIABETICS
On 19 August 1989, at the World Youth Day in Santiago de Compostela, Pope (St.) John Paul II proposed ST. RAFAEL AMAIZ BARON as a model for young people today, and beatified him on 27 September 1992,...
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LEGACY OF A SAINT IN HAWAII
Blogs may be short and infrequent as I am once again on the Big Island (Hawaii) with Oblate Karen- getting rest after major surgery during covid.Of course here, major topics are birds and art and...
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CONNECTIONS IN HAWAII
In one of my last visits to the Big Island, I did a Blog on Madge Tennent, the "first lady of Hawaiian art". Now I discover one of her students, who was also famous for her paintings of Hawaiian...
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EARLY BIRDS IN PARADISE
Before Homo sapiens set foot in the Hawaiian Islands, birds ruled, filling grasslands, mountain tops, forests, shores, fulfilling roles of pollinators, fertilizers , scavangers, etc. Till man came...
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SAVING BIRDS ON THE BIG ISLAND
HAKALAU FORESTNATIONALWILDLIFEREFUGEE, encompasses 38,000 acres on the Big Island of Hawaii. Located on the slopes on Mauna Kea, it is one of the most successful managed sites for endangered species...
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WOODS OF HAWAII & ARTISTS
I arrived here just in time for the annual wood show. My last visit was also wood show time. The woods of Hawaii are special, but what some the artists can do with the wood is no less than...
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THE SPIRIT OF ALOHA
An amazing Hawaiian artist I just found, died in 2008 at the age of 62 of ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease.PEGGYCHUN was diagnosed in 2002 at the height of her fame as a watercolorist. deciding this dread...
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HAWAIIAN WOMEN- IN A TRADITION
SUSANMCGOVNEYHANSON was born in California, educated at UCLA and the Art Center School of Design (as did John D. Dawson) moving to Hawaii in 1963, where she lied on the windward side of O'ahu. (Our...
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MORE HAWAIIAN WOMEN
Amazing how many women painters after Madge and Cornelia have focused their work on Hawaiian women. No less talented then the previous artists is PEGGE HOPPER, who brings her own style to this...
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SANDWICH ISLANDS BIRDS BY AN ENGLISHMAN
Some of the earliest paintings of the birds of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) were done by an Engkishman, FREDERICKWILLIAM FROHAWK. He was born in Norfolk in 1861 and showed an aptitude for...
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DISNEY BIRDS?
Another painter of colorful birds, tho I am not sure he ever made it to the Hawaiian Islands, was STARK (WINTHROPSTARK) DAVIS.Born in Boston in 1885, he later moved to Chicago, finally ending in...
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