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All. Most.
Posted August 5, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
What follows is an aside of sorts. I was asked to write something about how I'm doing, about the lay of the land, with my book on Matrimony about to...
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The Holy State
Posted July 29, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
THE HOLY STATE Love is all there is. Love is all you need. Two forgivable extremes. Ordinary life suffers when compared to that kind of certainty. Maybe a bit of...
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Matrimony
Posted July 23, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
FROM THE INSIDE There are odds, and there are likelihoods. And then there's what happens. The odds were against the Matrimony book from the early going. The publisher I counted...
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Last Wave of the Scriptorium Fundraiser
Posted July 16, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
The last Wave of the Scriptorium Fundraiser opens today. In celebration of Stephen Jenkinson's forthcoming book Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart's Work, we are including a few venerable Indigo...
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Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart’s Work
Posted July 14, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Made To Measure Some things it isn't wise to get used to. Saying goodnight to a loved one. Having children at your feet. Breathing. Rising in the morning of your...
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Left Over
Posted July 4, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
If you're old enough to remember when music was only records and radio, then you remember the ignominious B-side. Purely a consequence of physics (you had to have another...
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Offering Bowls: Scriptorium Fundraiser Wave 3
Posted June 30, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Offering Bowls We’ve just opened up another wave of the Scriptorium fundraiser. Our third new and renewed items include handmade offering bowls, created in Italy using gorgeous hand dug Albisola...
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The 2025 Boreal Session is almost full
Posted June 14, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Greetings, A few of us are now deep into transcription work with The Scriptorium Library and the upcoming Boreal Session in mind. The following excerpt comes from what turned out...
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MANAGING / BLESSING
Posted May 29, 2024 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
When someone tells you news that he/she has told five hundred before you, it comes across as barely news. It's rote, and it's your turn, and that's it. Part of...
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