<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?><rss version='2.0'><channel><title>My Blog Feed</title><link>http://www.tblog.com/</link><description>A tBlog Blog!</description><lastBuildDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:27:31 -0700</lastBuildDate><language>en-us</language><item><title><![CDATA[The Waiting Room]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/426426</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/426426</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Waiting Room“My power is made perfect through weakness,” says the Lord.I watched as the drip went into my friend’s arm from the plastic IV bottle. He would soon “go under... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/426426'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father   Lawrence]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/426423</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/426423</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I was in a bookstore some years back browsing through the fiction shelves.  I saw a book titled “The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas.” I took the book off the shelf and saw that it was a collec... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/426423'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Windows Fall]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/426421</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/426421</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When Windows FallThis is a piece I wrote a few years back, while away from the monastery.  I decided to leave it stand as is.  	When I was a teenager my family lived in a large Dut... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/426421'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kelleytown]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/426417</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/426417</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[KelleytownAt night as I fall off to sleep, I sometimes think of what transpired in the day. Last night I thought of something that my mom recently told me.  She has trouble sleeping some night... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/426417'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost in Translation]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/423217</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/423217</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[	There was a book published a few years ago.  It is Eva Hoffman’s memoir and she titled it “Lost in Translation.”  She writes of being forced to leave her native Poland as a little girl and movi... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/423217'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ellisville, Mississippi]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/423215</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/423215</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ellisville, MississippiI drove up to Chicago from Louisiana and made stops at the Trappist monasteries in Conyers, Georgia and Gethsemani, Kentucky on the way.  It was good to be in those places a... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/423215'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/422196</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/422196</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ForgivenessTen years ago, a young man was driving on a road in Pennsylvania.  He had had too much to drink and lost control of the car.  He slammed into a group of Amish children who w... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/422196'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elvira by the Sea]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/422118</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/422118</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Elvira by the Sea	He spoke softly of his mother and was worried about her.  Her name was Elvira.  We were washing dishes together, and I watched his hands lift the large dishes in and out of t... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/422118'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer for a Grown Man]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/421135</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/421135</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Prayer for a Grown Man	His name I cannot remember, though his face is as vivid to me as it was when I last saw him.  That was almost twenty years ago.  He was nine years old back then, s... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/421135'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Presentation]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/421129</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/421129</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The PresentationIt was the Feast of the Presentation and we gathered in the cloister, very early in the morning, for a procession around the cloister and into the church.  It is as well a Feas... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/421129'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer Night]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/421126</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/421126</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Summer Night	The memory is simple and returns to me so often and unbidden.  It is a delight when it comes and lingers for a while. It seems to like, as I do, the quiet of the woods here at the... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/421126'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[When She Calls]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/420742</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/420742</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When She CallsOne of my jobs this week is reading the prayer at the end of the offices.  We use the prayer of the preceding Sunday on the “ordinary” weekdays.  One line in this morning... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/420742'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lady at the Printing Shop]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/420736</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/420736</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[     Brother Callistus called and I drove him to the printer, where he wanted to drop off our newsletter.  It was raining and warm.      The newsletter is all about life here at the monastery.  Th... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/420736'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[On The Trolley Car]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/420721</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/420721</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[     I took a ride on the street car while in New Orleans.  The Canal Street Line has been restored and there are nice red cars that ride up and down Canal Street all day and into the night.      ... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/420721'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watching Her Dance]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/419498</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/419498</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Watching Her Dance    There was a small luncheonette on a small street in the town where I grew up.  I used to go there with my friends when I was in high school and we would sit in a booth an... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/419498'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sonia Live and the Hot Dog Man]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/418977</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/418977</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sonya Live and the Hot Dog Man	I never found out his name.	He was short, squat, wore brown baggy shorts, long blue socks that made his legs look sort of funny, sneakers and a blue shirt.  ... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/418977'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Andy's Diner]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/418973</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/418973</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Andy's Diner	I used to live about a mile or so from a diner that I frequented nearly every morning. The name of the place was Andy's, named after the owner, and it was located near... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/418973'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Cody]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/418966</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/418966</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There is a man named Robin Cody and he drives a special ed school bus in Portland, Oregon.  He is also a writer. His essay, “Miss Ivory Broom,” is published in the 2004 edition of Best American Sp... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/418966'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[My First Essay]]></title><link>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/418961</link><guid>http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/418961</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[	Some Thoughts on BloggingI was reading a blog earlier today. It is written by a woman who is married and has two small children.  She writes very well about what goes through her mind and... <a href='http://ConyersCraft.tblog.com/post/418961'>more from ConyersCraft...</a>]]></description></item></channel></rss>