THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness

THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness

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  • 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
  • The ‘Colored Only’ Fountain

    In 1969, passing through Atlanta on a Greyhound bus, I drank from a fountain marked “Colored Only”—and waited to see what would happen.

    RMDell’Orfano

    March 11, 2026
    Autobio
    Greyhound bus, Genesis, Combat Zone Boston, American South, spiritual pilgrimage, conscience, Atlanta, racial injustice, segregation, leaving home, civil rights, Florida journey, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham
  • Food Can Kill … or Cure

    A sudden illness sends a young pilgrim to Boston’s Rising Sun clinic, where he encounters a radical idea: food itself may be the body’s first medicine.

    RMDell’Orfano

    March 6, 2026
    Autobio
    Adelle Davis, alternative medicine history, Ann Wigmore, Boston 1968, Boston Back Bay, counterculture health movement, food as medicine, healing foods, health food movement, Hippocrates, live foods, memoir excerpt, natural healing, nutrition reform, Path Perilous memoir, personal pilgrimage, Rising Sun Christianity, sprouted legumes, vegetarian diet, Wheat grass juice
  • Sorry, No Catholics Allowed

    At age twenty-six in the summer of 1968, I visit the Bruderhof community in northern Connecticut, stepping through its stone wall and wrought-iron gate into a pastoral world that feels suspended in time.

    RMDell’Orfano

    February 25, 2026
    Autobio
    1968, Anabaptist tradition, bruderhof, Christian communal living, communal property, Connecticut, Deer Spring, intentional community, memoir, New England countryside, pastoral landscape, religious experiment, spiritual searching
  • 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
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THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness

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