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The brisk winter cold braces the body and the mind. The Advent season warms the spirit; its anticipatory revelation kindles hope in life’s meaning. This stark contrast is harmonious with any vestiges of dissonance dissipating or rewritten in contemplation. This provides your Sanguine Panguin with a soothing and even ecstatic joy that evinces a jubilation…

The summer brings poignant and dense odors from nature. They stir the senses in such a pleasant way and remind one of the vast complexities that God has created. Each creature and each plant play a part in this symphony where the composer is also the conductor. Never one to let an opportune moment of…

This morning is the perfect morning to waddle around and perhaps slide down my favorite hill. The enjoyment of that freedom is unparalleled.  Nature guarantees me that freedom and, in that freedom, I see what many fail to see: clarity in truth and resounding light. Nature can mask or and it can reveal; in revelation,…

Despite the chaos in this world and in most of our lives, there is always hope. Hope for a reprieve from the burdens that we bear and the anxieties that inevitably surface in our steps. Hope, however, is not an elixir. It is a virtue. The source of this virtue must exist as we have…

The winter season brings a renewed hope as your SP prepares for Advent. The temperature declines while emotions heighten, elevated by a prevailing spirit of the season. Hope, faith and charity are three legs of the little stool in SP’s study warming his feet in front of a fire while finalizing his list of gifts…

It is often heard that life is short and we must therefore make the most of the present time. Easier said than done perhaps. Quantifying the time remaining or the time lapsed and relating it to the urgency of life or love is hardly straightforward. More often than not, a fleeting pain is followed by…

We witness the most beautiful gesture, image, or action unexpectedly only every once in a while. However, when we hear it, see it, feel it or broadly stated, experience it, there is an instant rush of hope that envelops us. We often witness this when a mother is with her offspring. There is no love,…

Nature harbors the truth. And indeed, your SP thus is in a privileged position to seek the truth and at times, perceive it. It is in the ice, in the animals, in the plants and in the air. Never palpable, but possessing a weight and volume that one can contemplate in a manner unlike normal…

As winter turns to Spring, the heart senses a joyful rejuvenation. The cycles of the seasons perhaps mirror the cycles of our lives. Births and rebirths bring us hope and joy. In the seasonal warmth, there comes a comfortable reprieve from the Winter cold and still air. There is a soothing and quiet energy that…

People will go to great lengths in the belief that there is something better, perhaps even salvation. We have seen it repeated in history. It is a search for peace and even beauty in bleakness. There is something that sustains all of us in the moments of deprivation and manifest natural forces. My fellow panguins…