The Halo Effect

by Anne D. LeClaire

We are subjected to every kind of hardship, but never distressed; we see no way out, but we never despair. Second Corinthians.

“Our daimon. It’s a word from the Greeks. It means our soul’s purpose. Our destiny.

‘The cure for everything is salt water—sweat, tears, or the sea.’ The writer Isak Dinesen

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. —Oscar Wilde

former church in Rhode Island that had become renowned for its frescoes painted by an Italian artist in the 1940s, all of whom bore the faces of the church’s former parishioners.