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10 Tips for Attending Mass Well

| January 15, 2009

Yesterday I decided to see what was going on over at Broken Alabasterwhere my fellow blogger Mary writes. One of the fine blogposts I found there is republished below. Eucharist is a Greek word that means thanksgiving. Today’s picture was taken on the Appalachian Trail in Grayson Highlands Park in Virginia. I am thankful to live [...]

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Breakdown

| November 8, 2008

Somehow it happened this week that I had two days in a row with nothing on my calendar. I took it as a sign that I was supposed to take a trip to Grayson Highlands State Park in Virginia to visit the wild ponies. As I made my way through Damascus and up the winding [...]

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Karma Police

| October 4, 2008

Yesterday my friend David and I got around to taking the hike that was postponed last Friday. We took the advice of Dan H. Allen, who wrote the book Don’t Die On The Mountain. Dan says several times in his book, THERE IS NO ADEQUATE SUBSTITUTE FOR AN EARLY START! The approach trail to the AT [...]

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A Walk In The Woods

| September 26, 2008

Bill Bryson, in his book A Walk In The Woods, describes it well, It was hell. First days on hiking trips always are. I was hopelessly out of shape–hopelessly. The pack weighed too much. Way too much. I had never encountered anything so hard, for which I was so ill prepared. Every step was a [...]

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