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"We're gathered round a fireand it's the autumn of the year.We're at the southern edgeof the northern hemisphere." So begins the fifth song from the new Nights of Grief and...

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 inability to attend...

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 little clarifying; not...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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 bell, that...