THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness

THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness

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  • 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.

    RMDell’Orfano

    December 9, 2025
    Autobio
    1960s college life, Catholic upbringing, coming-of-age, danger zone, deep POV memoir, emotional maturity, fear and instinct, fraternity culture, human vulnerability, men’s inner life, moral tension, Path Perilous memoir, psychological awakening, rites of passage, sexual awakening, spiritual innocence, teenage conscience, youthful desire
  • 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.

    RMDell’Orfano

    December 8, 2025
    Mysticism, Psychology, Religion
    Catholic themes, contemplative spirituality, human potential, Immaculate Conception, inner renewal, Mary, modern faith, overcoming shame, personal growth, spiritual psychology, spiritual reflection, transformation, Tree of Life, universal symbolism
  • The King Who Built Heaven

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

    RMDell’Orfano

    December 5, 2025
    Art, Religion
    beauty and wonder, castles and cathedrals, Christian symbolism, Cinderella Castle, Disney inspiration, European cathedrals, fairy-tale architecture, faith and imagination, Ludwig II, Neuschwanstein Castle, sacred architecture, spiritual heritage, visionary builders, Walt Disney
  • 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…

    RMDell’Orfano

    December 4, 2025
    Art, Education, Politics
    •, Cold War Legacy •, College Tuition •, College vs Trades •, Education Reform •, Federal Student Loans •, Higher Education Costs •, Inflation and Tuition •, National Power and Technology •, Skilled Trades66STEM Education •, Student Debt Crisis •, University Administrative Bloat •, Vocational Training •, Workforce Development •
  • 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.

    RMDell’Orfano

    November 25, 2025
    Autobio
    cave of ignorance, Chained prisoners all, Nonconformist, Plato’s Cave, Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • There But for the Grace of God…Go I

    If this is how we treat vulnerable humanity—if this is the best we can do—then the failure isn’t theirs. It’s ours. And it is way past time to say so out loud and do something that solves this growing social problem.

    RMDell’Orfano

    November 25, 2025
    Charity, Suffering
    Endless jail, Homeless Cycle
  • AI Gone Rogue

    Suppose you got on ChatGPT and asked it to verify you exist. Then it reports that no such person was ever born.

    RMDell’Orfano

    November 20, 2025
    Psychology, Science
    Chat GPT, Insane Asylum, Rogue AI
  • Fraternity Hell Week

    Hell Week teaches that important social lesson, unless the ritual turns cruel and deadly.

    RMDell’Orfano

    November 18, 2025
    Autobio
    ATO, Hazing, Hell Week, Path Perilous
  • The Beast Within

    My father’s hand had steered me toward truth, but no strap could ward off what awaited me in adolescence. Now the enemy was not dishonesty—it was my body itself, turning strange, unpredictable, and frightening.

    RMDell’Orfano

    November 9, 2025
    Autobio
    Adolesence, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Hamlet, House of Seven Gables, Path Perilous, The Pit and th Penulum
  • The Mockery of Freedom

    America has turned violence into a sacred ritual—worshiping war, guns, and destruction while calling it freedom. A haunting reflection on our national soul.

    RMDell’Orfano

    November 9, 2025
    Politics
    Abby Zwerner, American violence freedom and war gun culture national conscience Thomas Merton political hypocrisy modern America theater of violence sacred and profane cultural dec, American violence freedom and war gun culture national conscience Thomas Merton political hypocrisy modern America theater of violence sacred and profane cultural decay, bullet in teh heart, cltural decay, gun culture, national conscience, Politivcal hypocrisy, sacred adn profane, theater of violence, Thomas Merton
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