Another article for the local paper. How could a woman end up living with 1,100 cats on a twelve-acre secure reserve? Lynea Lattanzio’s cat refuge has a 1.6 million dollar a year turnover with costs for food and other cat related needs. This is not about cat hoarding, though. Lattanzio and her staff/volunteers seek to …
Reflections on the emotional experience of reacting to recurring situations that are losing their capacity to shock. Published in our local paper today. The news of the terrible attacks in Paris (and the bombings in Beruit) seem to be giving rise to a different emotional response to the way people responded to September 11 or …
Sandra McCracken and Sara Groves perform McCracken’s song Dynamite (from her album Desire Like Dynamite). Here’s what McCracken has to say during the song: “Some friends and I went on a pilgrimage to meet Wendell Berry one afternoon and had a conversation with him about life, life living in a city, what does a sustainable …
This week’s Border Watch piece is a reflection on the lives of Elisabeth and Jim Elliot, Elisabeth having died during the last week. The paper titled this ‘Lives Sacrificed To Help Strangers’. The story is more amazing than any work of fiction. Elisabeth and Jim Elliot were newly married in 1953. They had spent their …
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