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Reflections on the Great Cat-tastrophe, One Year into Its Aftermath
More than a legend passed. More than an age. An entire reality went over the Rainbow Bridge with Otis T. Cat.

L. Roy Aiken
Mar 5, 20213 min read
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The Lord’s Gym
I could riff all day on this, and as full of cuss and coffee as I am at this glorious Sunday dawn, I just might.

L. Roy Aiken
Feb 21, 20211 min read
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Towards a More Monastic Faith, Part 1
Oh, they had to get me started. Which is a good thing, considering how long this blog has been dark.

L. Roy Aiken
Feb 16, 20213 min read
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COVID-19's Most Famous Fatality No One Talks About
…because the fact that Rock is dead, once and for all, does not reflect well upon us.

L. Roy Aiken
Dec 21, 20204 min read
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Thoughts on the Night of the Fourth Sunday in Advent
December is the strangest month on our calendar.

L. Roy Aiken
Dec 20, 20202 min read
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October Evenings, 2020
The moon wastes no time
climbing the cold black bones of the pin oak I could have watched burn yellow forever.

L. Roy Aiken
Dec 7, 20201 min read
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The Living Death of the Institutions
We've seen so many things change slowly, now all at once.

L. Roy Aiken
Dec 6, 20207 min read
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Fatherly Advice to My Old Fatherless Self
It's been years since you've suffered the need to tell people what you're up to.

L. Roy Aiken
Nov 30, 20201 min read
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Clichés Exist for Reasons
Damn them all,
they weren’t wrong.

L. Roy Aiken
Nov 29, 20201 min read
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Sundown on the Last Saturday Before the Canceled Holidays, November 2020
The walls glow as my friends did when we were still friends and young.

L. Roy Aiken
Nov 22, 20201 min read
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Hell, and How We Got Here, Part 2
The God Who Was Not There.

L. Roy Aiken
Nov 22, 20202 min read
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Hell, and How We Got Here, Part 1
Getting It Backwards.

L. Roy Aiken
Nov 22, 20202 min read
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Ghost of a Gift
A hazard of heartache in acquiring one’s décor from thrift stores.

L. Roy Aiken
Oct 29, 20202 min read
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Peace Amid the Panic: Scenes from Late September
Archiving a most colorful autumn.

L. Roy Aiken
Oct 29, 20202 min read
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The Ides of October
A minor mid-morning adventure in mid-month, with photos and commentary.

L. Roy Aiken
Oct 15, 20202 min read
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Farewell September 2020
I find myself in a strange melancholy this last day of September.

L. Roy Aiken
Sep 30, 20202 min read
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What the Jesus Freak Is Up To
My faith is monastic, not evangelical, so don’t worry about me trying to save your soul here.

L. Roy Aiken
Sep 20, 20202 min read
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A New Name for a New Blog
Because the only way forward is forward, not back.

L. Roy Aiken
Sep 19, 20202 min read
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In Search of the Loving God
I seek God all around me, not in the confines of a building with "saints."

L. Roy Aiken
Sep 12, 20201 min read
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The Missing Piece
...without which reality cannot properly function.

L. Roy Aiken
Sep 3, 20202 min read
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