THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness

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  • The Untamed Beast

    A parable exposing the limits of bookish religion and the necessity of a lived obedience to Scripture.,

  • Why Families Can’t Afford Christmas

    Catholic reflection on why families can’t afford Christmas anymore—linking inflation, education costs, debt, and the forgotten humility of the manger.

  • THEN THE BELLS TOLLED

    A firsthand account of November 22, 1963—when JFK was assassinated, church bells tolled, snow kept falling, and a young man stepped unknowingly into a lifelong spiritual threshold.

  • Our City Crises: A Mechanical Failure

    A village parable reveals why New York’s crisis isn’t about greed or compassion—but a broken economic mechanism no one wants to inspect.

  • The Wrong Career

    Even back in 1963, sitting in that lecture hall, I had felt a similar confusion—and quietly recognized that I had entered the wrong room. I just didn’t yet know why.

  • Danger Zone

    College in the early 1960s was a collision of ideals and crude impulses, especially for a young man like me who carried a tender conscience into an era of loosening morals.

  • That Part of Us Waiting to Be Born

    A thoughtful reflection on the Immaculate Conception reinterpreted as a universal symbol of inner renewal, showing how anyone — believer or not — can discover the unbroken self within and allow new life to sprout beyond inherited fear and shame.

  • The King Who Built Heaven

    I realized that King Ludwig II of Bavaria lived a similar antagonistic pattern Christ faced

  • A College Education: The Real Cost

    When a Degree Still Made Sense In 1963, my engineering degree from a small private college in New England cost about $2,000 a year — tuition, room, board, and books included. A four-year degree ran roughly $8,000. My first job paid almost the same amount. A year of work absorbed the full cost of a…

  • Plato’s Cave Shadows

    In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the shadows on the wall represent illusions and the false reality that people perceive as truth.