THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness

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  • ISLAM: Five Times a Day

    While Europe’s cathedrals echo with tourists, Islam’s five daily prayers fill its mosques with living faith—a quiet triumph of devotion over decline.

  • The Lagoon,Leeches, and the Law

    Two brothers defy a No Swimming sign, plunging into a hidden lagoon—and into a lesson about fear, folly, and the leeches that never let go.

  • Rabies of the Soul

    When Political Outrage Becomes a Reckless Religion

  • Our Cornered-Cat Generation

    Antifa’s rage isn’t about ideology — it’s about alienation and inequality. Richard M. Dell’Orfano recalls his penniless pilgrimage and the inner revolution that heals it.

  • Finding True Freedom

    We are left to fight our battles alone, in the quiet corners of ordinary lives, yearning for a freedom we cannot quite locate or achieve.

  • Death and Deportation

    Pope Leo XIV has declared that the deportation of illegal immigrants and the death penalty are inhuman.

  • The Masquerade of Life

    All the world’s a masquerade, where one man in his time plays many parts, and I had learned how to slip past its stopgates unnoticed.

  • We Don’t Take Your Kind.

    At the gates of Andover Academy, I learned that pedigree alone—not ambition, not money, not merit—decided who entered, and who was turned away.

  • Foreshadowed Arc

    The Upham House offered a glimpse of my life’s quest, a foreshadowing of the perilous path I faced—in that daunting frontier of fear, faith, and unseen mystery mirrored in its weary walls.

  • The Doomscrolling Bomb:

    Doomscrolling is the slot machine in your pocket—random rewards keep you hooked. Like Skinner’s pigeons, most don’t even notice the cage.