THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness

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  • A Beautiful Conch Shell

    Can magnificent churches become a beautiful but hollow conch shell? A reflection on the Sagrada Família, Church reform, sacred architecture, and faithful renewal.

  • Much More Than Food

    Before I was born, an Italian family table taught me that food was never just nourishment—it was love, gratitude to God, and the first lesson of faith.

  • Beyond AI: The Real Challenge

    An engineer reflects on WPI in the 1960s, the rise of artificial intelligence, and why lived experience—not information alone—remains the true path to wisdom.

  • The Pause That Refreshes

    A Coca-Cola analogy explores the dispute between Vatican,and SSPX, both missing the original active ingredient phased out long ago

  • Munching on Mars Bars

    As a boy, I munched Mars Bars, read Jules Verne, and dreamed of rockets. Decades later, from Sputnik and Apollo to Elon Musk’s Starships, I find myself asking a different question. Mars may be humanity’s next destination, but the most difficult frontier I encountered was never millions of miles away—it was within.

  • Beneath the Same Cloud

    A 1953 schoolboy and a 2026 billionaire build the exact same bomb shelter. One used imagination, the other uses billions—but the radioactive cloud sees no net worth.

  • Traumatic Grace:

    rue transformation rarely arrives gently. A reflection on suffering, metanoia, and the breaking of the ego through traumatic grace.

  • Podcast Episode: Shipyard Scars at Sixteen

    Pip: There's a theory that what doesn't kill you builds internal ballast — and RMDell'Orfano has the scar on his left hand to prove it. Mara: This episode follows one through-line: what it costs a society when it stops putting its young people in hard situations, and what history says happens next. Let's start with…

  • Shipyard Scars at Sixteen

    At sixteen, Richard M. Dell’Orfano worked in an East Boston shipyard where danger, steel, and sweat forged resilience that modern comfort no longer demands of young men.

  • The Forgotten Disciplines of Healing

    Why have prayer and fasting largely disappeared from modern medicine and religious life? A reflection on biblical fasting, scientific discoveries, a personal 21-day fast, and the forgotten discipline of spiritual and physical renewal.