Stories from Ostrava: March, 2023

Exploring Ostrava This is our first newsletter update from Ostrava! We have been enjoying exploring the city and getting to know our future home since the beginning of March. Already, we have been able to learn the bus system, discover a few areas of the city we might want to live in, and find a …

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Post-Christmas Reflections: Wondering & Wandering, Through the Seasons

"The sun is fast fallin' beneath trees of stoneThe light in the tower, no longer my homePast eyes of pale fire, black sand for my bedI trade all I've known for the unknown ahead!" ~ Bear McCreary, "This Wandering Day", from The Rings of Power We recently celebrated the Christmas season--the actual liturgical season, of …

On Beauty: Guest Post by Maggie Lucchi

Initially written in February, 2022. I've been thinking about beauty lately. Does it really matter if we see beautiful places and great art? Should we really spend the money to travel or go to expensive art museums? Do I really need to bother keeping my home beautiful, we're leaving in a year anyway. As I …

Pioneer Trek CZ 2022: Reflections

Reflection 1: "This year’s Pioneer Trek trip to the Czech Republic went wonderfully, and it is full of impactful stories. My family and I traveled with a team of three from MNU—one undergraduate student, one SPGS student, and one spouse of a student. Though our initial team was small, we were able to closely collaborate …

Arts Camp Czech Republic

Hello, friends and family! I wanted to share a brief description of a project we plan to help with this summer, as well as an invitation to help make it happen. The Project This summer, from July 13th-July 27th, Maggie and I will be leading a small team of students from MNU on a mission …

Chapter 1: Go

Prologue Recently, Maggie and I shared an important update with friends and family--that we will be moving to the Czech Republic in approximately a year and a half. In this post, we want to provide some more context for our decision and call to "GO", as well as invite you into our story, to be …

Fragment #3

Fragment 3: March 30, 2021 In moments of quiet, I hear you—when the rest you ask of me is attended to, your voice is clear. You beckon me to create space, often in ways I wouldn’t choose—through sickness, or tragedy, or trial. But you know that I need to hear you; that I need to …

Fragment #2

Fragment 2: 3/9/2021*(Photo taken in 2017, Hradec Kralove)*The day I left, I vowed silently—to myself and to my Father—that I would one day return. Home was behind, and the world ahead—yet it was only home that I wanted.*Home is getting eggs from the potraviny, knowing that bus 16 gets me home, and taking the short …

Fragment #1

Unedited Fragment #1: March 5, 2021*(Idea inspired by “Island of the World” by Michael O’Brien; perhaps my favorite novel)*The expression of words into any kind of poetic medium feels, at present, artificial. Can I achieve authenticity in the expression of the poetic? Is it possible for I, who has never been a poet, to communicate honestly …

Be Thou My 2020 Vision (Fall Update)

Hello again, and welcome to this newest update from the Addison/Maggie/Elinor Lucchi family! Speaking of which... A New Lucchi! In September, Elinor Lucchi was born. Maggie and I have been blessed with a wonderful new member of our family... and, the opportunity to learn how to function with much less sleep. All in all, things …