Construction for the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris was begun in 1160. Eight hundred miles away and twenty one years later, in 1181, Giovanni Pietro di Bernardone (later known as […]

Kathleen Norris,  The Cloister Walk, 1997 “Nearly every morning I walk past a young tree — some sort of locust — that signifies survival against all odds. Most likely it […]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, because the mass man will mock it right away. I praise what is truly alive, what longs to […]