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"We're gathered round a fire | and it's the autumn of the year. | We're at the southern edge | of the northern hemisphere." | So begins the fifth song...

The Jesus Session | The spirit translation. The translation of spirit. | A Livestream Event | Many have written in with real excitement over this session. And many lamented their...

Matrimony in Real Time | March 21-22, 2026 | Victoria, BC, Canada | Not love - though veritable and worthy it is; not partnering - though it could use a...

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....

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...