On Adventure: A Letter to My Children
Someday, perhaps, I will have children. But today I am just in my twenties, and there is already so much I want to tell them and can’t yet. Here where I stand on the threshold…
Author: Fellowship & Fairydust
Inspiring faith and creativity & exploring the arts through a spiritual lens
When I Am Weak, I Am Strong: Frodo’s Providential Heroism
The tiny figure of a hobbit stands on the edge of a precipice, shrouded in a surreal haze. With an eerie glare flickering across his face, he clutches a chain in his grimy hand,…
Fighting the Long Defeat
Why do our stories March on before us? Those who remember them Oft times ignore us But our presence is there; Our spirit-borne breath Enlivens each telling Defying our deaths *** It is that! It…
The Development of Chivalry: From Medieval Propaganda to Catholic Virtue
In the beginning of the 11th century, there were many separate feudal states in Western Europe united by a common faith in the Catholic Church. The traditions of the Vikings, the Franks, the Italians, and…
Intelligent Design Exists: A Summary of the Argument in “Darwin’s Black Box”
Everyone knows the story of how life began as a simple cell that formed by chance and gradually evolved into more complex organisms (aka “Macroevolution*”). Everyone also knows the story of how God created life…
The Sea Within: A Meeting of Matter and Spirit
Why are we in love with the sea? Everyone knows we are, but no one knows why… Modern times are not the low tide of sea-love but the high. Our minds may have demythologized the…
The Price of Friendship
What price can be put On a friendship? None! Not the measured sum Of life itself. Friends are part Of one’s own self, A fragment Of the greater web That weaves The Universal Truth. A…
A Man for All Seasons: An Anthem
Author's Note: While watching that classic of classics, A Man for All Seasons, I was inspired to write words in tribute to St. Thomas More and all the Catholic Recusants to match the film’s the…
As Lady Liberty
“Marilyn, we’re leaving!” my younger sister Katie called from the top of the stairs. “Almost ready!” I called back. I was sitting at my arts and crafts desk in the basement…
Squirrels and Schloss Itter: Assorted Trivia
Squirrels The word "squirrel" is from the early 14th century, from Anglo-French esquirel, Old French escurel (Modern French écureuil), from Vulgar Latin *scuriolus, diminutive of *scurius "squirrel," variant of Latin sciurus, from Greek skiouros "a…