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Ken Pollitz: Going on a treasure hunt
By Ken Pollitz - Guest Column
We were not in possession of any ancient or mysterious frayed-on-the-fringes map. No dated parchment, inscribed with a large red “X” marking the spot, had been dug up in our backyard.
This laborious pursuit would not be that simple!
Our joint adventure had been in the works for months, a mutual agreement between my wife and me. Push came to shove, or shall I say “shovel,” and we finally found the time to get to work with some determined digging.
Exceedingly confident of multiple treasures to be unearthed, we were nevertheless supremely uncertain as to the specifics. Any price tag was unquantifiable.
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Believed to be the first of its kind in this country, the Elroy-Sparta State Trail is a nearly 33-mile stretch of converted railway across a portion of wes
Ken Pollitz: Pray, grow, mow as you go
By Ken Pollitz - Guest Column
Regardless of my performance on any essay, paper, exam, or assigned homework, the professor’s formal notation at the bottom of every student’s submission remained the same.
Having briefly scanned my work, I’d eventually come to his scripted concluding mandate to “Ora et labora!”
With already monumental deficiencies in the English language, my Latin vocabulary couldn’t even fill a thimble. Historically rooted in directives among monks of a monastic order, I learned the expression means to simply “pray and work!”
Once more Doug, my good friend and pastoral colleague, and I, were prevented from taking our annual pilgrimage north of the border into Canada. Unable to enjoy the glorious sites and minimal sounds of a week-long silent retreat at the Loyola House Retreat Center in Guelph, Ontario, we set our sights south, instead.