Notesfromstillsong

One of the things I did with my morning and early afternoon. Congratulations to all of the Jubilarians, but especially to Sisters Ann Marie Gelles and Aurora Perez. I am interested in learning later this month what the name of Annie's new Guide Dog will be since I didn't know this doesn't happen until the end of the training session!! Thanks too to Father Gerald Coleman for a re...

[[ Dear Sister, why would the desert or a desert spirituality be considered dangerous? Why would it be dangerous for someone without a Divine call to be a hermit to try to live as one? I've heard a few times that the hermit life is dangerous, but hermits today don't live in real deserts, do they? So what's the danger?]]I put up an older post before approaching this series of que...

I've been asked about this again, so before I write about it afresh, I want to include a reprise of the original article. This was originally written in August 2016. Dear Sister, usually when you write about the silence of solitude it is a positive thing but your last piece was pretty dark. I wondered if you were okay and if this was a new discovery you had made about the power ...

[[Hi Sister Laurel, I really appreciate what you wrote about suffering but it raised more questions for me. One of these is whether, when you go silent, it means you are suffering and need prayers? Another is whether suffering has taught you anything about the Gospel and, if so, what? My third question is whether you understand suffering as a necessary part of eremitical life (I...

[[Dear Sister Laurel, I was thinking about your not having written much recently. I have been praying for you, but I wondered if being ill changes the way you live eremitical life? You don't mention being ill very often or write about suffering. Why is that? I know another hermit [deleted for this blog] who talks about her own suffering ALL THE TIME. I have felt sorry for her so...