Shaping word, and phrase, and memory and song

Don't let the creative impulse die

May 7 • 

Gaetano Carcarello

March 2025

Lent: A Season of Authenticity

Create in me a clean heart, O God,

Mar 19 • 

Gaetano Carcarello

September 2024

Courage at the Crossroads

When creative endeavours are stifled by the vagaries of emotion

Sep 11, 2024 • 

Gaetano Carcarello

Lamenting the Tumult and the Noise

Encountering a metropolis

Sep 5, 2024 • 

Gaetano Carcarello

May 2024

A New Home and a New Start on Substack

or Prolificacy vs Prolificity

May 14, 2024 • 

Gaetano Carcarello

October 2023

Notes from an Exile (aka Here in the Narthex)

So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Oct 26, 2023

June 2023

Efficacious Means to Kill the Creative Spirit

Upon the careful consideration, design and implementation of the following means to kill the creative spirit, I’ve decided to share my most effective…

Jun 18, 2023

March 2023

In the Belly of the Whale

Having had our eleventh child three months ago gave me pause to consider Johah in the belly of the whale. It’s not that I’ve been sent to preach…

Mar 13, 2023

June 2022

Kill the man, rather than become him

It all matters. Every discipline and commitment matters. Every day matters, given as a gift by a gracious Lord and Saviour that speaks to us in the toil…

Jun 17, 2022

March 2022

Sonic Mistresses and Raucous Refuge

It is good to give thanks to the LORD,

Mar 14, 2022

December 2021

The Holy Family as an Antidote to the Modern Age

As we continue to celebrate Christmastide, Holy Mother Church grants us a number of feasts and solemnities through which to orient our prayer and…

Dec 26, 2021

November 2021

Stuck in a Beautiful Rut

It’s taken time to get to this, particular, blank page.

Nov 23, 2021