THE LIBRARY
Books for the journey.
The Library gathers the books of Shared Tomatoes—companions for reflection, faith, and ordinary life.
Shared Tomatoes
Stories of Growing, Healing, and the Sacred Ordinary
Ordinary life offers moments that can easily pass unnoticed—encounters with others, experiences of healing, unexpected kindness, and small occasions of grace.
Shared Tomatoes invites us to look again at these experiences and consider how God's presence may be revealed in the familiar circumstances of our lives
Reclaiming Presence
Attention, Solitude, and Human Formation in a Distracted Age
We live in a world that continually competes for our attention. Technology, responsibilities, and the pace of everyday life can shape how we experience ourselves and our relationships.
Reclaiming Presence invites us to consider how we are being formed by the world around us, and how solitude and renewed attention might help us become more fully present to our lives and to one another.
Ripening Tomatoes
Seasons of the Later Years of Life
Growing older brings changes in our relationships, responsibilities, and understanding of ourselves. Some changes arrive gradually, while others ask us to reconsider what matters most.
Ripening Tomatoes invites us to reflect on the later seasons of life—not simply as a time of loss or limitation, but as an opportunity to recognize the wisdom, grace, and continuing possibilities that aging may bring.
As Life Changes Shape
Life rarely remains as we once imagined it would. Relationships, responsibilities, abilities, and circumstances change, sometimes gradually and sometimes without warning.
As Life Changes Shape invites us to consider how we live within these changes—with honesty about what is lost, openness to what remains, and attention to the ways life may continue to offer meaning, grace, and possibility.
On Becoming
Our lives are never entirely finished. Through relationships, experiences, unexpected changes, and the passage of time, we continue to discover something about who we are and who we are becoming.
On Becoming invites us to consider the ways we are formed throughout life, often without recognizing it at the time, and how attention to our experiences may help us discover the continuing presence of grace and possibility.
Other Writing
Books and other work shared here in various stages of development.
What Remains — When Performance No Longer Feels Like Life
The Road Home — Quiet Conversations for the Journey
These writings are still taking shape. They are included here as a glimpse of work in progress.
Books Along the Way
Certain books become companions along the way. They help us recognize something of our own journey, sometimes giving words to what we have known but could not quite express. These are a few that have accompanied my own.
Anam Cara — John O’Donohue
