it's not an important thing, relatively speaking, about the attacks on Lebanon lately, but I am thinking about my friend Shane, who after a significant career in game dev took monastic vows and became a Jesuit theologian, and spent time with the Jesuit Refugee Service in Beirut.
The suggested era for Rosewood Abbey is sometimes between the 12th and 13th century. The Name of the Rose is set in 1327. However, I encourage people to play in whatever era they want.
"o, how happy the one who knows how to restrain their tongue, for they deliver their soul from numberless faults and anxieties!" —louis of blois, osb #benedictine#monastic#contemplative#mortification
no, Monastic Academy
Happy Monkday everybody! A reminder that Old Habits Die Hard - my monastic heist fantasy novelette - is available on Kindle to chase away those beginning-of-the-week blues in a tale of loyalty, redemption, and demon arse-kicking. tinyurl.com/m7u6drnn
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oh, i know, and they're particularly bad in latin america. but since he wouldn't be deep into the lay monastic life stuff, basically the worst they could be doing with him is promoing the same ideas he's getting with thiel anyway
They often come to see that a regular rhythm to the day, inherent in the monastic tradition, far from limiting their freedom, enables them to live more fully...
He wore a sparse auburn beard (today only white bristles would sprout if he did not shave-poor Pnin, poor albino porcupine!) & this divided monastic growth, topped by a fat glossy nose & innocent eyes,nicely epitomized the physique of old-fashioned intellectual Russia. #Nabokov24
I'm not looking at topknot dude and thinking "Ah, a Celtic Cross. You must be a great admirer of the 6th - 8th century monastic tradition in Ireland and the West of Scotland. Big Colmcille fan, I get you." Maybe that's unfair.