On this Feast of the Ascension, I would like to announce the opening of Ex Cathedra Studio in downtown Fayetteville Arkansas. Upon moving to Fayetteville this last summer, I began looking for a space in which to be and to do, whatever I was to be doing or whatever it…
Saints
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My Patroness: Saint Melangell
This website/blog is dedicated to Saint Melangell, a long time favored saint of mine. She’s a wonderful wandering Celtic saint that spent her life trying to make a safe place for folks amongst the thorns, thickets, and brier patches of society and of the world. The Legend of Melangell and…
Musings
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The Work of St. Martin’s Lent: The Blessing of the Kindling
I awoke to a cold, drizzly, blue, mist-soaked morning here on Bear Mountain, and immediately two thoughts rose up in me. First, we have entered what I’ve long called the “blue time of the year”, not only in terms of how the season settles on the spirit, but in the…
Musings
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An Unexpected Visitor on Bear Mountain
An Unexpected Visitor on Bear Mountain Something unusual happened here on Bear Mountain in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. I stepped outside onto the front deck this evening, caught up in the beauty of the late-fall sky. The view from our house looks straight down into thick Ozark woods, nothing but trees…