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What Is Your Leisure Doing to You?
Most people consider their free time their own. They have worked hard for it, earned it, and feel entitled to spend it however they please.
A Six-Part Essay SeriesWe spend much of life asking what we should do. Far less often do we ask who we are becoming. They are written to be returned to, and the conversation unfolds over time.
When you finish the series, Bloom & Vine carries the same conversation forward — one letter each Monday, one practice at a time.
about the monday letterYes. Each essay prepares the next. Together they form one conversation rather than six separate articles.
Around a fifteen-minute read. Slow enough to think. Short enough to revisit.
Not necessarily. Many people begin with the assessment; others begin with the essays. Both lead toward the same conversation.
Please do. The conversation becomes richer when read together.
They are deeply shaped by Scripture and the Catholic intellectual tradition — and written for anyone sincerely searching for a more integrated way of living.
A thoughtful letter for the week ahead.
