Is Peace Possible?

Recently, I heard a concert with music from the era of the swing bands. Having been a teenager in the ’40s, I thoroughly enjoyed the segment, singing along with the chorus: “Ain’t She Sweet,” “When You’re Smiling,” and then a World War II song, “The White Cliffs of Dover”: There’ll be bluebirds over The white…

NunsBuild

Theresa Eppridge, O.S.U. and Marie-Celine Miranda, O.S.U. Invitations to participate in NunsBuild appeared at an Ursuline meeting In the summer of 2009. From the fliers we learned the essentials: The St. Bernard Project, an organization founded in 2006, was rebuilding hundreds of homes devastated by the floods after Hurricane Katrina, homes owned by families unable…

WEAVING FOR LIFE

She who reconciles the ill-matched threads of her life, and weaves them gratefully into a single cloth Rilke, Love Songs to God Somewhere (was it in Africa or South America?), I watched an indigenous woman at the loom. She sat behind the weaving where the ill-matched threads made a confusion of colors. She worked the…