VIEW FROM THE PEW Infrastructure. Bah humbug. The word has become an expletive in my life, a yardstick to measure how I’ve failed to tackle basic maintenance, a possible scary signal that I’m losing it. I mutter it when I navigate through a room that has become the graveyard of abandoned projects, because whose fault […]
Mary Adamski: Living the legacy of Babel
VIEW FROM THE PEW If you haven’t heard the expression “a Hail Mary” used completely outside the context of our religion, you must not hear or read sports commentators who love that reference to a prayer as shorthand for a last-ditch athletic performance that’s nothing short of a miracle. Another expression that has morphed away […]
Mary Adamski: Two final farewells
VIEW FROM THE PEW Some tell me I’m missing a lot and urgently need to break out of my COVID cloister by zooming, binge-watching, livestreaming. I do long to see the faces of distant family but I’m a TIP (technologically impaired person) and I need those guys here beside me to teach me Zoom 101. […]
Mary Adamski: Chaplaincy in the time of COVID
VIEW FROM THE PEW Here we are in March marking the one-year anniversary of anxiety as our daily state of mind. A year ago, people were just beginning to realize that the deadly, highly infectious disease in a distant country was indeed going to be our problem, too. We’ve faced daily breaking news from the […]
Mary Adamski: Feeling angry and disappointed
VIEW FROM THE PEW There were yardmen in the neighborhood and it always makes me think they are still boys at heart, loving to make noise. And how they do love those leaf blowers, roaring on and on while they herd leaves and cuttings to the green bin. I’ll bet these guys never think of […]
Mary Adamski: ‘Tis not the season to be jolly
VIEW FROM THE PEW I’m sure most families have insider buzz words or phrases that are shorthand for some wisdom from the elders or reminders of a shared trait or an inside joke. One of ours is to say “pat, pat, pat” when someone is enduring pains or worries. To an outsider it may sound […]
Mary Adamski: Monumental musings
VIEW FROM THE PEW Here we are at the annual holiday/holy days when we deliberately remember the dead. When we mark All Saints Day and All Souls Day, we Catholics celebrate being linked in the body of Christ with those who have gone before us. A lot of people think that’s just too grim or […]
Mary Adamski: Let us pray
View from the pew There was a whole lot of praying going on in the virtual public square last month. But unless you were glued to the screen for every second of the political party conventions, you may have missed it. Both the Democrats and Republicans scheduled invocations, blessings and benedictions by speakers from various […]
Mary Adamski: There was a tiny whispering sound
VIEW FROM THE PEW Is everyone out there recycling cartoons and photos of comic or caustic signs that are commentaries on life in these perilous times? I get a daily dose of stuff in the email box. I guess some are hilarious but I am overdosed. Not much to laugh at in this country, or […]
Mary Adamski: One solution: more benches
VIEW FROM THE PEW Seeking peace at the end of a day, our eyelids are a screen with flashing images from the past weeks of civil unrest as protestors force us to confront our ugly national sin of racism. Some images are inspiring sights of people of diverse ethnic roots and many hues joined together […]
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