found out about anchorites yesterday and personally i think father jud is one more traumatic life event away from reviving the tradition. yes i need to be bricked into the wall of a church and physically restrained from doing anything other than praying and offering spiritual advice to needy visitors. my violent soul cannot be trusted to be in the world so this is the only way i can serve my purpose and therefore be permitted to live. and what if every so often he sees a glimpse of a tailored suit and hears a warm southern drawl through the narrow gap that serves as his only window to the world. and still he feels stirrings of things no person who has devoted themselves so completely to monastic worship should be able to feel............













