It’s been awhile since I’ve contributed to the Open Book linkup, hosted by blogger Carolyn Astfalk and the team at CatholicMom.com. Time to catch up and find out what other folks are reading. I’m looking forward to reading more than just excerpts from Pope Francis’s Fratelli Tutti, released a few days ago. Headlines seldom do justiceContinue reading “Open Book: tackling the to-be-read pile”
Author Archives: Ellen Kolb
Writer, activist, Granite State walker.
Still dreaming
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I have a dream” speech 57 years ago today. I’m understating the case to say that nonviolence hasn’t quite won out yet. I could fill this post with links to news reports just from today, from this country, proving that point. With all that Dr. King wrote and said,Continue reading “Still dreaming”
“The most deadly poison of our time…”
Every year on the August 14 feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe, one or another social media acquaintance posts these words attributed to him: “The most deadly poison of our time is indifference.” My conscience stings every time I read that. Am I indifferent? Am I not doing enough stuff? Maybe, but there’s more to theContinue reading ““The most deadly poison of our time…””
Ellen Kolb 