RMDell'Orfano

The Medicine

A young man leaves the ordered stillness of an abbey and steps onto a dusty road, choosing solitude and faith over security in this memoir excerpt from Path Perilous: My Search for God and the Miraculous.

Rhetorical Mercy

Real compassion is harder because it requires juggling two truths at once—without dropping either.

Terror in the Night

A night of shelter at a remote monastery descends into terror when a fellow traveler appears at the foot of the bed with a knife. What follows is a silent vigil of fear, prayer, and survival beneath the Abbey’s ancient walls.

Atlas Shrugged In California

California is living Atlas Shrugged: inventiveness collapses, elites drift, billionaires exit—and Joe Sixpack inherits the bill.

OUTSIDE, LOOKING IN

A winter day in 1967 Boston becomes a wordless lesson in faith, hunger, and social blindness, as cold, abundance, and waste collide on Christmas in Beacon Hill.

The DIGITAL DOLLAR DEATH-TRAP

The GENIUS Act didn’t modernize money—it gave the government a kill switch over your wallet. Why digital dollars threaten privacy, resilience, and freedom.

Living Deliberately—In Quiet Desperation

My soul longed to stand tall, even as it remained shackled to the cowardice of my flesh.

The Sickest Nation on Earth

America spends more on health care than any nation on Earth — yet grows sicker each decade. This essay explains why modern food pyramids fail, how ignored micronutrient ratios quietly erode health, and what real prevention requires before disease appears.

Embracing Poverty—I Found Christ

An excerpt from Path Perilous recounting chosen poverty, quiet companionship with pensioners, and the discovery of Christ in a wounded World War II veteran.

Timeless Little Children

A reflective memoir excerpt exploring Krishnamurti’s Choiceless Awareness, childhood innocence, and the illusion of time through contemplative silence.