thinking about the jude st francis under all those layers of trauma and hurt that will never see the light of day .. his past is such an integral part of his present and future that it mars any possibility of him growing as an individual apart from it. I suppose it wouldn't be jude 'st francis' at all tho, because it was this baptism at the monastery that really started it all ; maybe in a kinder universe he was found by a law professor and microbiologist on that curb in that box!!

















