A Philadelphia Weekly item on Ron Marco, a theology graduate student who lives the life of an “ecohermit,” inspired in part by the desert hermits of ancient Egypt and contemporary canonical hermit Richard Withers, who lives in a Philadelphia row house. Marco charts the progress of his Urban Hermitage Project in a blog at http://natureformandspirit.blogspot.com
Martha Ainsworth: Episcopal solitary
Article by Paul O’Donnell in New York Magazine titled “Hermit of the Heart,” with subtitle: “With no convent but the city itself, one woman finds a prayerful solitude as a contemplative order of one.” About Martha Ainsworth’s attempt to define a religious vocation as a solitary approved canonically by the local Episcopal bishop. Interesting example of being a hermit in the crowd.
URL: http://nymag.com/guides/mindbody/2008/42818/
Accommodations
This brief Sept. 2007 New York Times article entitled “My Life as a Hermit” by Edward Lewine was placed in the newspaper’s real estate section because of its focus on hermits trying to find suitably inexpensive places to live.
URL:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/realestate/keymagazine/
909HSHERMIT-t.html?ref=keymagazine
Bill Porter (Red Pine) (2)
A report of a talk given in China by Bill Porter (pseudonym, Red Pine) author of Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits. URL: http://www.china.org.cn/english/Books&Magazines/228558.htm
See also a previous entry (2004) on Bill Porter.
URL: https://hermitary.com/around/?p=47
Laurel O’Neal, hermit nun
Here are a couple of news items about Laurel O’Neal, a Catholic convert, professed nun, and canonical hermit living in California. URLs:
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_7117217
http://www.catholicvoiceoakland.org/07-09-17/front2.htm