White-Knuckle Hope and Nauseating Bravery
"You're so brave" might be one of my least favorite and most awkward sentences to receive. And in the ramp up and beginning to my moving...
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Jan 229 min read
If 2023 Were an Album
A dear friend recently told me about a song she had that she used to reflect upon her last year…a backing track of sorts. That mode of...
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Sep 5, 20232 min read
Paying attention
the little tiny things I have learned to pay attention to this summer: the way that ocean air smells and feels how the moon reflects on...
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Aug 13, 20233 min read
This Daring Thing Called Hope
I was sitting in class last March when we received the following prompt: Write a letter to your current self, from your future self Oof....
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Jul 1, 20232 min read
And a little child will lead them
There are so many things I could write now. Countless updates about discernment, fear, cross-country moves, soul wrenching goodbyes and...
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Dec 25, 20222 min read
A Merry "Mezcla" Christmas
En ingles, ni tampoco en espanol... This is a phrase I have sat with since I began immigration work as a Jesuit Volunteer, and one that...
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Nov 21, 20222 min read
Make it Make Sense
I live in a country in which we say “We are a nation of immigrants” when it suits us. When it doesn’t, we simply say “Go home.” “You’re...
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Oct 25, 20222 min read
Radical Joy
Two years ago, I was in the middle of my first semester of my last year of college. I was trying to handle a campus that was divided on...
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Sep 19, 20222 min read
The Good News
The Good News, by Thich Nhat Hanh They don’t publish the good news. The good news is published by us. We have a special edition every...
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Aug 31, 20224 min read
Thin Spaces
I’ve been absent in this space. I know that’s how I start a lot of these posts. I want to write and don’t and then feel too far gone from...
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May 9, 20224 min read
Arimathea
This year is fraught with paradox (blessed with paradox?) in so many ways. A way that I am finding personally frustrating is this: the...
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Mar 13, 20224 min read
Liturgical Lightning Bolts
They were just prepackaged cookies and a paper cup full of water. Just snacks that we had in the office. Just my inadequate response to...
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Feb 19, 20223 min read
Running Time
College turned me into a runner. Well, more specifically, Hannah, Joe, and Caitlin turned me into a runner. Some of my best college...
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Jan 11, 20224 min read
The Second Half
Howdy y'all! I'm officially back in full swing in Houston. I've been sitting on this post for a week now, unsure whether to hit post or...
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Dec 28, 20216 min read
Wells of Deep Joy
First up, a (long, in the best way possible!) meet the Casamate! "Howdy! Gabriela’s roomie, Sarah Shorter, here! Coming to you live from...
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Dec 13, 20213 min read
Our Lady of Guadalupe
I’ve been really quiet in this space, but there has been a lot of processing outside of it! During November, I participated in my own...
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Oct 19, 20213 min read
It's not about me
Howdy from the JV House in Houston! I don’t normally write on Tuesdays, but I am headed on retreat and have some thoughts before heading...
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Oct 10, 20215 min read
en ingles ni español
Long time no write! This past month has been an absolute whirlwind, full of high highs, low lows, and lots and lots of laughter! Meet a...
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Sep 14, 20213 min read
Complicating the simple (and embracing the complicated)
Funny story: I have been taking a shower in exclusively one of our bathrooms because every time I tried to shower in the other one, the...
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Aug 31, 20213 min read
Two Weeks In
I have officially finished two weeks and two days working (in person) at a full-time job. One of many many obvious statements I am about...
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