• Posts Tagged ‘orphans’

    The Tale of Kindly Colinus

    by  • March 3, 2017 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    In 1351, a year after the Black Death finally let go of the village of Nérac and its surrounding estates in southwest France, a gentle young monk named Colinus went through the ravaged region and collected every orphan he could find, bringing them back to live by his brothers in Orphan Hall. In a...

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    Puerto Rico, Day 6

    by  • April 1, 2012 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    After maintaining decorum by posting notes five nights in a row (6 if you count the day before we left), I ran into a mental block called tiredness and stalled on my up-to-the-day reporting.  What follows is my effort to recover my memories of what happened on day 6. After breakfast and a morning...

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