HeyJaredThe Morton Train
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secular saints and a full self (opens the original)
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“Be human in this most inhuman of ages.” - Thomas Merton**The audio recording of this Morton Train is available to paid subscribers here.**For my First Communion in second grade, I was gifted a book about Catholic saints from my aunt and uncle that fascinated me. Each page contained a colorful image of a haloed person from history and a few simple paragraphs about their life. What I remember most are the violent deaths and the suffering that many of those s
[audio] secular saints and a full self (opens the original)
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sending the pent-up outside (opens the original)
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“The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.”―Werner Herzog**The audio recording of this Morton Train is available to paid subscribers here.**Early on in the pandemic, during the period known as lockdown, the hiking trails in Los Angeles County were closed for a month and a half. Since moving to L.A. a few years before, I’d gotten into the habit of hiking a strenuous 4-mile trail in Griffith Park at least once
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