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Fortune
Posted December 9, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Fortune Maybe it's from 'fort': a strengthened or strengthening place. And from 'tune': a kind of hymnic or hummable sound. That would make fortune a kind of melodic endurance. Ah,...
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The Look
Posted December 2, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
The Look "I wish, I wish, I wish in vain …"There's a song in there somewhere. A pendulum swinging through the years. And a life, a life rolling it's merits...
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The Jesus Session
Posted November 29, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
The Jesus Session The spirit of translation. The translation of spirit. Part cultural critique, part prayerful murmur,this time Jesus will be a prism, and a prompt, and a verb. Online...
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Two in-person Matrimony book events in March, 2026
Posted November 24, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Two in-person Matrimony book events in BC, Canada, March 2026 Patrimony's Middle Age Men's Work, Ritual, Culture, Crisis A session devoted to living where social conscience, radical hospitality and the sacraments of trade...
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Threshold Trilogy with Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Ann Johnson
Posted November 16, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
This is a chance to be in the presence of eldering. Each series explores a particular threshold. Taken together, they form a kind of cultural immersion into the ways birth,...
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Into the Marvelous
Posted November 13, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Not many of the good stories start with: "Well, I stayed home …" Some of them end up there. There's Ulysses, say. But those stories that ring the bell, that...
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A Winter Boreal Session in the Orphan Wisdom Hall, Jan. 6-11, 2026
Posted November 10, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
~A Winter Boreal Meeting~The Jesus Session In person event January 6-11, 2026in the Orphan Wisdom Hall, Ontario, Canada Join Us In these events we follow the example of those ancient...
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The Jesus Session
Posted October 28, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
The Jesus Session The spirit of translation. The translation of spirit. Part cultural critique, part prayerful murmur,this time Jesus will be a prism, and a prompt, and a verb. January...
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Tumblings Down
Posted October 21, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Tumblings Down People. We come and we go.Some let you know that they love you.Some let you know that they don't.People die on you. Here, then not.Not everyone at once,...
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