Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, has purchased St. Benedict’s Monastery in the Elk Mountains, where a group of Trappist monks lived and worked for decades.
Leath Tonino
Leath Tonino is the author of two essay collections, most recently The West Will Swallow You. A full-time freelance writer, his work appears regularly in Orion, The Sun, Outside, Tricycle, New England Review and other magazines.
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Camping with the Desert Fathers
The mystics and the wilderness teach the same thing: forsake the illusion of control, pay attention to where you are, abandon yourself to the divine.