Katherine Karr-Cornejo

Content notes: death of a child, serious health challenges for child and spouse, medical trauma

Redeeming Time An infant son's death provokes a profound meditation on time, remembering, and trauma.

This beautiful essay on time and space and and the sacred and bodies and grief and trauma is just 🌟

And beautifully written, which does not surprise me having worked and ministered with the author and his family

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I was reminded, we also don't know who was horrible abused by their mother or turned out and trafficked by their mother. We don't know how badly this maternal hagiography greeting falls because people have learned to keep it off their faces in order to survive the day.

Close up of a blooming dicentra plant

Bleeding hearts because reality

I still have .edu addresses from my degree granting institutions 😎

Indeed. Who showed up for me during my divorce and then last year’s ankle fiasco? The church (duh the people).

one of the reasons to do cross-disciplinary stuff is because it's quite common for someone to be looking at a problem and then realize that another field has been looking at for for fifty years.

I love my shelter kitty! 

We Are All Chile A study of the relationship between literature and the current conditions of national life, We Are All Chile explores how artistic expression reflects lived ...

Fun fact #2: a chapter of *We Are All Chile* is about the civil war of 1891 - and how lament and grief shape remembrance, how a society elides memories of violence, how it deals with discontinuities in its overarching narrative. I’m looking forward to reading *Mi nombre es Emilia del Valle* 📖

Video: Isabel Allende Understands How Fear Changes a Society The beloved author left Chile at a time of great turmoil and has longed for the nation of her youth ever since.

Fun fact #1: a chapter of *We Are All Chile* is about Inés Suárez and Isabel Allende’s delightful 2006 novel about her #academic #writing #book

Living my best life in this here worst timeline, buying SO MANY PLANTS and seeing Sinners which was 🔥

Meme image of a painting, there is a woman in a fancy previous century dress, a coral colors capelet and a hat, and is resting her foot (in a lovely little heeled shoe) on a brick wall. She is looking to the viewer’s right, off screen. Behind a wall a creepy dude in a powdered wig and frock watches creepily. The meme text says “dat ankle”

I got new sneakers this week and blew my mind to learn I’ve generally been wearing a half size too small because my ankles are slender vis-a-vis the length of my foot. Even the one that I broke is still slender, and I have to use a fancy lacing technique. I find this unaccountably hilarious 🤣

Has anyone ever said "My rights are a distraction?" It's always someone else's rights, right?

Photograph of a smiling white woman. She has glasses and brown hair, and is wearing an Easter fascinator that matches her Easter floral dress, in pinks and blues. She is standing in the aisle of St John’s cathedral, and the altar is behind her.

Photograph of roses and lillies arranged in an antique silver vase, placed on a pedestal in front of the pulpit.

Photograph of a cake on a white plate, in a pink tablecloth. It is a guava cake filled with guava paste and lime curd, decorated with coconut buttercream, guava paste, toasted coconut and candied lime

Happy Easter! Christ is Risen! Alleluia! ⚓️

This was ages ago (at least 20 years, other side of the US), but it obviously stuck with me. And is the opposite of what I understand the Gospel to mean…

Print by Ben Wildflower. A lit candle is framed by the words “this little light of mine / is for burning down prisons””

And today, Holy Saturday, I got to meditate on the prisoners of hell freed by Christ and it gives me so much hope, even as I wait for the resurrection. ⚓️

The Good Friday liturgy brought out some of the emotion I usually feel during the Triduum, which surprised me because usually Maundy Thursday is that point for me

I prayed the psalms at the altar of repose, and my parish seems to be finding better ways to accommodate this practice. Also, praying the psalms from 150-1 was SO WEIRD but also good

Despite my inclinations against it, I ended up feeling like I had to do it because it was so hard for me to accept the help I needed when I was injured in the past year. It’s been a discipline to allow myself to be helped, to be served. So I did the foot washing and damn it God was right. ⚓️

Maundy Thursday is my 2nd favorite day of the year (after Easter). The message of John 13:34-35 is central to my life. As a kid liturgical foot washing functioned like another way to show who was in or out (like only the vestry get feet washed, by clergy, etc).

After chatting with a friend about how our Lents felt… less?.. than previous years, I continue to be surprised by how God has shown up in the Triduum services ⚓️

Photograph of golden buns with a white cross on them, on a white plate on a pink tablecloth

Hot cross buns shared with folks at my annual Fascinator making party on Holy Saturday 🩶 ⚓️

Thankful for those seeing the humanity of all.

But also: the disconnect between this passing on the same ballot money for a new jail failed is still 🤯

Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family.

I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.

We Are All Chile A study of the relationship between literature and the current conditions of national life, We Are All Chile explores how artistic expression reflects lived ...

Publisher link: www.unmpress.com/978082636787...

I am tickled that it has been cataloged in the Latin American history section (F3081), rather than literature (my beloved PQs)

A selfie of a white woman with brown hair, green eyes, and glasses. She is standing and smiling next to a hardcover copy of a book, of which she is the author: We Are All Chile, Representations of Difference in Contemporary Chilean Historical Fiction

Watercolor painting with five stylized panels. Each panel represents one of the chapters of my book, We Are All Chile. It is reproduced in black and white as a frontispiece.

Happy publication day to me! You can get your own copy at any fine bookseller, in paperback, hardcover, or ebook. 🎉📖🎉

This and laundry racks omg who knew middle age would be so domestic

I love Duruflé’s too! Though I tend to do requiems more in the Fall 😎

Yes my Holy Week playlist is over 12 hours long so what…

what else should I be listening to? ⚓️