THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness

My Healing Journey

“During a nervous breakdown in my early twenties, at the time of the John F. Kennedy assassination, I stumbled into a labyrinth of life that few have ever experienced.”

RMDell’Orfano

April 3, 2024

Wellness

cost of Christian discipleship, jfk assassination, leonardo Da vincie, metanoia, nervous breakdown, penniless pilgrimage, rebirth, Vietnam War, Yale Graduate school
When Providence Moves …

In the summer of 1968, a hitchhiking pilgrim experiences Providence in motion, receives unexpected hospitality in Amherst, and witnesses a startling moment at a Connecticut turkey farm.

RMDell’Orfano

February 18, 2026

Autobio

Amherst 1968, ashram life, Christian pilgrimage, Doris and Jack, Gethsemane, Hatha Yoga, hitchhiking, hospitality, Providence, spiritual boldness, St Francis rule, Thomas Merton, turkey farm incident, W H Murray
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.

RMDell’Orfano

February 13, 2026

Autobio

abbey, bell tower, calling, crossroads, decision, departure, discernment, dusty road, faith, farewell, monastic life, perseverance, pilgrimage, silence, solitude, spiritual journey, surrender, vocation, young seeker
Rhetorical Mercy

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

RMDell’Orfano

February 10, 2026

Politics, Psychology, Religion, Wealth

civic order, compassion with boundaries, empathy vs sympathy, empathy without absolution, hetorical mercy, immigration debate, moral responsibility, performative compassion, personal boundaries, proximity and ethics, rule of law, social costs
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.

RMDell’Orfano

February 4, 2026

Autobio

contemplative life, evil and grace, faith under threat, memoir, monastic life, moral testing, near-death experience, pilgrimage, prayer and deliverance, psychological terror, sacred space, spiritual memoir, trauma and faith, violence and survival
Atlas Shrugged In California

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

RMDell’Orfano

February 3, 2026

Politics, Wealth

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, billionaire migration, California politics, Capital flight, cultural decay, decline of inventiveness, economic incentives, elite decadence, government overreach, historical parallels, Hollywood stagnation, middle class taxation, political accountability, productivity decline, public finance crisis, redistribution economics, socialism and innovation, tax burden shift, Wealth tax
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.

RMDell’Orfano

January 28, 2026

Autobio

Beacon Hill, Boston, Christmas, class divide, cold, compassion, deep POV, embodiment, Homelessness, hunger, lived faith, moral contrast, poverty, silence, social invisibility, spiritual testing, thresholds, waste, Winter
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.

RMDell’Orfano

January 27, 2026

Politics, Wealth

cash acceptance, cashless society, central bank control, civil liberties, digital dollar, economic resilience, EMP risk, financial censorship, financial surveillance, GENIUS Act, government overreach, grid failure, kill switch currency, Live Free or Die, monetary freedom, New Hampshire HB 1284, payment choice laws, privacy erosion, programmable money, stablecoins
Living Deliberately—In Quiet Desperation

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

RMDell’Orfano

January 21, 2026

Autobio

1960s America, academic materialism, faith and providence, Harvard, Henry David Thoreau, Jr., Living Deliberately, Martin Luther King, memoir excerpt, MIT, moral courage, Path Perilous, pilgrimage, Primitive diets, quiet desperation, Ralph Waldo Emerson, roots and branches, spiritual search, transcendentalism, Walden Pond
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.

RMDell’Orfano

January 15, 2026

Wellness

ancestral nutrition, Calcium Phosphorus Ratio, chronic disease, Dietary Guidelines, electrolyte balance, food pyramid, magnesium intake, Metabolic Health, micronutrients, Mineral Balance, nutrition, potassium sodium balance, preventive medicine, public health, soil depletion
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.

RMDell’Orfano

January 14, 2026

Autobio

Beacon Hill, Boston, Christ among the poor, Christian memoir, detachment, Franciscan poverty, funeral Mass, hidden holiness, Path Perilous, Purple Heart, Spiritual Formation, veterans, vocation, World War II