March 22, 2010 – 12:54 AM
The meaning of this season of Lent in early English is simply “spring.” Paradoxically, Fr. Dan Kovalak, who lives on a small creek running into the Susquehanna in Faxon, recently described the season to a group of children in this way (you must imagine his deep James-Earl-Jones-style baritone tempered by singing with the Don Cossacks): [...]
By Alfred Kentigern Siewers
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Also tagged Dostoevsky, drownings, ecological ethics, elders, Erazim Kohak, grownups, Lent, river, river environmental center, Shikellamy State Park, Susquehanna River
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Sitting at the really terrific Susquehanna Greenway Symposium yesterday I was oddly reminded of Sam Gamgee’s famous conversation with Frodo Baggins about “the stories that really mattered,” probably best known now from the Peter Jackson movie “The Two Towers,” but quoted here from the original Tolkien: “I don’t like anything here at all,” said Frodo, [...]
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Also tagged Amy Skillman, Chicago, Chief Skikellamy, Conrad Weiser, Dan Shilling, David Buck, Gary Bloss, Isle of Que, Jens Jensen, Jerry Walls, Jim Charles, Katie Faull, Lisa Rathje, Old Shamokin, Packer Island, Susquehanna Greenway Symposium
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