In our current day-to-day life, we live and literally breathe contagion!  We live within proscriptions of closed proximity and requirements of social distancing and sanitation practices intending to ‘flatten the curve’ of the COVID19 pandemic that is spreading exponentially.  The difficulty in staying the course of social distancing and its effects have other risks and costs as well; the emotional and psychological cost in the distancing from close proximity with elderly loved ones who are compromised; the risk of economic viability in our family, local, state and national realms; the risk for those prone to addictions and psychological impingement that can be exacerbated by the stress of isolation. …

This month marks the two year anniversary of the 2018 brutal crackdown against nationwide anti-government protests in Nicaragua.  Since 2018, thousands of people have fled Nicaragua, and now, along with other Central American countries, Nicaragua is facing the global coronavirus pandemic. …

What I want, my God, is that by a reversal of forces which you alone can bring about, my terror in face of the nameless changes destined to renew my being may be turned into an overflowing joy at being transformed into you.…

In the compelling 2016 fantasy drama film, A MONSTER CALLS, directed by J.A. Bayona, a child dealing with the impending loss of his terminally ill mother is visited by a monster who tells him a series of stories about truth in an effort to empower the child to face truth in the child’s own life. …

Mary Magdalene stayed outside the tomb weeping.
And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb

Proximity is so curious and so important.  Don’t we indeed know this these days?  Biological proximity in its most intimate form is the basis for regeneration of life – new life! …