I have a little story to tell. Earlier this spring, my husband won three tickets to a concert presented by the symphony orchestra of a nearby city–featuring Mozart’s Requiem. We debated for a few days about taking Trinity, our four-year old granddaughter, to such an adult event. In the end we decided to give it…
Author: Kimberly M. King
I am a Religious of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I am the director of Barat Spirituality Centre, www.baratspirituality.org, a writer, a juggler, a quick wit, a walker. I enjoy reading all sorts of fiction and non-fiction and regularly write both essays and poetry. Other interests and abilities include Spanish/English written translation and simultaneous interpretation, cooking, and time spent thinking and observing.
Crush-Proof Memories
When I used to work for the public library system, we had a collection of bikers that would often stop by the branch where I worked. Bandanas, tattoos, Frye boots, machines that rumbled with the easily identifiable soft edged “pahtaytah-pahtaytah-paytaytah.”… really. Other folks would scatter when they’d enter but I recognized them. They reminded me…
Rerun Friday Five
From RevGals! Summer Reruns Friday Five It’s that time of year when the only new things on television are music/dance competitions (the 21st century answer to variety shows?). Yes, it’s the season of reruns. This week the clock turned back to last fall and the Glee kids went back to school and still got “slushied,”…
On the Feast of Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat
24th May, 2011 Convent of the Sacred Heart, 91st Street The Sophie Stone Some of you here this evening know that I always carry at least one stone in my pocket. Most of you here this evening know that I returned in February from a five month stay in Rome where I gathered with twelve…
Words! Friday Five from RevGals
So my suggestion for today’s Friday Five is to write about 5 words you really like. Please explain why you have chosen each word, in such ways as: It is a * description or attribute of yourself * activity you enjoy * word that is spelled or pronounced in an interesting way * passion of…
My r-pad
I was in a coffee shop, pleasantly tucked into an end table, reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s book, La aventura de Miguel Littín clandestino en Chile, sipping a dark roast perfectly milked, and going back and forth between recording new vocabulary and wandering in my mind to my own time in that most interesting country. Ironically,…
Good Friday Reflection for the Church of Saint Francis Xavier
“I now know what you have to experience before you die: let me tell you. What you have to experience before you die is a driving rain transformed into light.” –Renee, concierge, main character; The Elegance of the Hedgehog Several years ago, when teaching Morality and Ethics to twelve year olds, one student asked me…
Collection Agent
For several hours today, there was the perfection of all that is most Spring. It was glorious. In the freedom of response that such beauty can inspire, I went on a wander in one of my favorite outdoor places– The Farmers Market at Union Square. And, I went with an agenda…an indulgent agenda that brings…
Transfiguration
Perhaps it is my recent experience with a 30 day retreat. Perhaps it is being on the cusp of a new adventure in people and place. Perhaps it is simply that though it is Lent and not August, the second Sunday’s cycle A Gospel reading has Peter, James, and John taking a hike up Tabor…
Another Friday Five from RevGals!
Whether we liked it or not, we all “sprang forward” with the change to daylight savings time in the USA this past Sunday. There is lightness and brightness slipping in as spring approaches, so let us consider what is springing forth in our lives right now. Name 5 things that are springing forth… 1. The…
Consider the Lilies 