Friday General Eclectica

Monasticism, Tara Thieke takes on the world, the history of facts, and more

See that? It’s the top shelf of my “icon corner” — that is, the sort of home altar that all Orthodox believers should have, where we mainly say our prayers. Mine is odd and eclectic, like me. That chunky white stone in the front I felt under my feet last summer in the Mediterranean, as I stood in chest-deep water off Limassol, Cyprus, praying my prayer …