The Perfect Storm, a confluence of contributing events, meteorological in origin, creations of monumental chaos swathing through human lives, human cultures, property and commerce, metaphorically as devastating as the failed human relationships of the meteorologists who named them spitefully after the former lovers who, categorically five, broke their hearts: Andrew and Maria, David and Sandy, Mitch and Irma. Why my sudden obsession with horrific, destructive storms? Philosophically, Perfect Storms are a part of the human condition which drastically shape our lives growing and revealing themselves like the confluence of lasix I washed down with twenty ounces of coffee making its presence known in a most frightening way as I am stuck in gridlock traffic.
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I am a composer, performer, poet, educator, spiritual director, and permanent deacon of the Catholic Church. I just recently retired after 42 years of full-time ministry in the Catholic Church. I continue to serve in the Church part-time. I have been blessed to be united in marriage to my bride, Ruth, since 1974. I am father to four wonderful adult children, and grandfather to five equally wonderful grandchildren. In my lifetime, I have received a B.A. in Music (UST), M.A. in Pastoral Studies (St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, UST), Certified Spiritual Director. Ordained to the Permanent Diaconate for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, in 1991. Composer, musician, author, poet, educator. The Gospels drive my political choices, hence, leading me toward a more liberal, other-centered politics rather than conservative politics. The great commandment of Jesus to love one another as he has loved us, as well as the criteria he gives in Matthew 25 by which we are to be judged at the end of time directs my actions and thoughts.
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