Reunion
As a child my father was often away and his absence shaped my sense of space, not as empty, but as waiting.
His recorded voice telling stories soothed my spirit; a low murmur that wrapped me in warmth.
His calm words folded around the silence like a gentle embrace.
I had just turned 10 that summer when my mother and I traveled to Nepal to meet him, time stretched between absence and arrival.
Cows drifted through the streets; the air heavy with stillness. Dust rose and settled like incense holding rivers of memory.
Amid the clamor of horns and voices, prayer wheels turned quitely under passing hands. Even in the noise there was a silence that seemed to hold his presence as if the city itself remembered him with me.
Only years later did I begin to understand what those moments pointed toward—
what waited behind the veil of the visible.
Fathers
🌳 Rev. John S. Dunne, C.SC.
“We are shaped by the stories we love and by the stories we fear”
🌳 Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.
“We are not here to guard a museum, but to nurture a garden.”
🌳 Dr. Rev. Martin L. King Jr.
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
Chris Servant, William Hasbrook, David Cloud, John F. Gallagher, John Zipprich II, Tim Weber, Steve Wolnitzek, William M. Sheehan, Paul G. Gill, Jr., Michael Hammes, Michael Morrissey, Joe Doyle, Mike McCoy, David Stumm, David and Vicky Spieler, Kevin Rooney, Fred Nachtwey, John Pedrotty, Thomas Lemker, John Murtagh, Jay Standring, Uel Pitts II, John Cox, Larry Moser
Donors
Bob Schmuhl, Bill Keeler, Patrick E. Murphy, Michael Oriard, Bill Weirich, Robert Kaminski, Paul Partyka, Richard Libowitz, Wallace Goulet, Bud Clifford, Eleanor & Christopher Moran MD, Peter and Marla Neeson, Robert Tissier, Rich Moran, Barney King, Al LaReau, Albert H. "Hutch" Schumaker II, Fr. Gregory P. Adolf, Gregory Ziombra, Edward McGuiness, Owen Devlin, Daniel Paddick, Tom Duffy, Timothy Collins
Donald Graham, Amy Roush, Brent Thompson, Annie Gawkowski, Bruce McGuire, John Hannen, Bill Drozda, Richard Reynolds, Gem Bonwit, Greg Sullivan, Bill Lajoie, Frank McNally, David Picton, James O’ Connell, Phil Kukielski, Don Simanz, Thomas E. Kennedy Sr., O’Malley Smith, David Redle, Fr. Peter Rocca, Mike McAleer, Clyde McFarland, Jr., Michael Hendryx, Gail Hendryx