I was confused, it has been so long. I am living in an area that pronounces your home state "Ohio"! Old Iowa joke.
I used to stay at that monastery when I was a student. It is really charming. Very peaceful surrounded by farm land. The stone chapel is beautiful and the monks chants bounce off the tall walls. I would happily go again if I was out that way. I would enjoy finding out how I would relate to it all without a theistic perspective. I suspect the experience would be just as cool. At the end of the day they all sing the Salve Regina in Latin to a picture of Mary. Reminds me of Carl Jung's Animus and Anima theory. Really beautiful. They make beautiful caskets to support themselves. Although I am donating my body to a drunken fraternity for pledge pranks when I die, I would love one of these as a coffee table. Very "goth" or using death as an adviser Don Juan style. Probably not too good for scoring with chicks without tribal tats and multiple piercings though! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of curtisdeltablues > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:53 AM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Day trip to Des Moines to see the talking bonobo > apes! > > > > http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Story?id=3222942 > <http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Story?id=3222942&page=1> &page=1 > > I am fascinated with bonobo apes. Ever since I raised a squirrel > monkey as a kid I have been intrigued by our social primate cousins. > This article is about a project near you guys in Fairfield. Great > video on this page on the right also. While you are out there you > should swing by the New Melleray Cistercian (Trappist) monastery in > Dubuque. Friendly talking apes there too! http://www.newmelleray.org/ > > Dubuque is in the opposite direction, but thanks for the tip. >
