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… in Miami (another Caribbean city), paints a largely abstract, religiously evocative "Spook Tree" (1956). In a thoroughly enjoyable video that reverberates with multiple meanings, the young …

… Christmas carols on the piano. I love going into the forest to find the perfect Christmas tree and decorating it. But, the real reason this is the best time of the year is different from …

… and sacramental life he stresses, saying he asks those he baptizes or confirms to plant 10 trees as a way to give new life but also curb climate change, according to Catholic News Service …

… his city to the Syrian border. Along the way he reported seeing "entire families living under trees, cooking leaves for their kids to eat and asking passers-by for clothing." "I could not …

… a parking meter and fell down. But he just stayed on the ground where he was, gazing up at the trees. "Mommy, what do you think that God is trying to tell us?" Mommy waited. Observed little …

… overlooking the East River, it looked as if a Cyclops had come by and swept several enormous trees away with the back of a hand. Of course, in ways that mattered, chaos was kept at a …

… New Guinea, performs a baptism, confirmation or ordination, he asks churchgoers to plant 10 trees to promote new life. Unabali considers the link between respecting the environment and the … the church as inseparable, writes Dennis Sadowski in a Nov. 9 Catholic News Service article . Tree-planting is one way this bishop encourages people to respond to the rapid pace of climate …

… I lost a lot, but not that much. The house itself withstood the surge; the garage did not. Two trees went down; one clipped the house. The Catskill (N.Y.) Fire Department pumped out the crawl …

… Sandy, which made landfall Monday in New Jersey, caused flooding, power outages, downed trees and other calamities over a large swath of the East Coast and into the Midwest. As of …

… to break up large tasks into smaller, more measurable goals: "I will run until I get to that tree ahead"; "I have already done two miles, what's one more?"; or "I can do ANYTHING for 30 more …

… the East River overlooking Manhattan from Queens were puddles of water. Still, several large trees in Astoria Park were uprooted down to their roots, as if a Cyclops had come by and swept … away with the back of a hand. The curious were out taking photos and posing next to the fallen trees. Fall had come late to New York City this year, and the fall leaves still have not fully … or brown; in some areas, the sidewalks were inundated with leaves of mixed colors and fallen tree branches. Meanwhile, the hurricane's high winds claimed some large signage, which lay on the …

… which is about 28 percent Catholic. People are still assessing their damage, but there is much tree destruction, even some houses split in two -- one reportedly had adults sleeping on one side, children on the other of where a tree fell. All are safe. At 7:30 a.m. Mass on Tuesday, Carmelite Fr. Hilary Milton, pastor of St. …

… gutters, slates and siding for sure; but the electricity has stayed on.  We do have a huge old tree blocking our main door. That said, it fell in the one direction it could do the least …

… to return -- the first time in days. In my neighborhood, we are fine. A neighbor's 90-foot tree decided to uproot and crash into my backyard, damaging a fence and gauging a hole in the …

… anthropology in criticizing the neo-con views. Douthat, too, missed the forest for the trees. And, sad to say, some of my fellow left-of-center Catholics make a similar omission in …

… ss10262012p01pha.jpg THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES: LOST GROVES, CHAMPION TREES, AND AN URGENT PLAN TO SAVE THE PLANET By Jim Robbins … Milarch spent his young adulthood arm- and knuckle-wrestling, and working as a shade tree farmer. As his alcohol consumption threatened his family life, Milarch quit “cold turkey.” …

… practice of nonviolence. It forces us to slow down -- literally -- and to notice the trees, the bushes, the flowers, the sky and the birds, as well as to notice the resistance within … He taught us to be peaceful and mindful ("Consider the lilies of the field ..." "Study the fig tree ..." "Notice the birds of the air ..."). He certainly taught, healed and walked with great …

… -- lime, lemon, orange, summer breeze, ginger, lilac, rose, peppermint. Shapes, too -- trees and lemons, happy faces and doggies, strawberries and little log cabins. Farther down the …

… coexistence and understanding, so we must nurture this good seed until it becomes a mighty tree, bearing flowers and fruits of a humanity joined in reconciliation and brotherhood," Amato …

… the form. Later that night, I recall seeing the moonlight in a new way as it moved through the trees and into my room. Miracle or not, what remained was a sense of God's presence. Perhaps that …