THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness

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  • 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.

  • Against the Current

    A reflective meditation on salmon struggling upstream becomes a deeper exploration of human purpose, spiritual longing, and the search for the Source of our Being. Drawing from nature, personal pilgrimage, and Christ’s parables in Luke 15, Richard Dell’Orfano examines whether human consciousness itself points toward an eternal homecoming.

  • The Day my Father Arrived

    Waiting beneath a dying avocado tree for his father’s arrival, a wandering seeker watches ants rebuild their shattered colony and discovers a quiet revelation about responsibility, providence, and belonging.

  • My Baby Can’t Breathe

    A frantic mother runs from a commune barn with her blue-lipped infant in her arms. A split-second decision turns into a life-or-death intervention—and a vacationing cop that changes everything.

  • His Money for My Life

    A sharply dressed heir seeks investment advice from a man kneeling in the dirt, plucking caterpillars into a jar—revealing a deeper divide between wealth and a life lived with purpose.