constructions – chapter 4(a)
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WITH EACH SLOWLY PASSING WEEK, MARI BELEN’S ANTICIPATION, OF THE EVENTUAL return of Jannet to Spain, grows. Although Jannet is referred to officially, by the department, as a psychic, Mari Belen understand that Jannet is actually something other than a psychic. Mari Belen muses about her own history, albeit a limited one, with spirituality. That history involved her periodic residency at a remote catholic monastery in the Barcelona province of Spain, El Monasterio de Montserrat, which is operated by the order of St. Benedict. Continue reading
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inMoving slowly along SE Powell Blvd., in Portland, and it is rush hour. I am heading east on Powell to eventually make my way to the community college on SE 82nd, to attend a class. There is a typical gray rain falling and the all-Classical radio station is playing a moody sonata to keep its listeners calm, during the rush hour. Sluggishly motoring by the Catholic Charities building (see above), on 27th & SE Powell, it is easy to notice a family of refugees who are walking into the Charities’ entry. Continue reading