Odd because:
1) I don’t like talking about religion.
II) I don’t like linking to ESPN.
c) I don’t like basketball.
With those stipulations: Shelly Pennefather was one of the great women’s basketball players.
She scored 2,408 points, breaking Villanova’s all-time record for women and men. She did it without the benefit of the 3-point shot, and the record still stands today.
After college, she played in Japan for a while. But she felt a calling, so in 1991…
The Poor Clares are one of the strictest religious orders in the world. They sleep on straw mattresses, in full habit, and wake up every night at 12:30 a.m. to pray, never resting more than four hours at a time. They are barefoot 23 hours of the day, except for the one hour in which they walk around the courtyard in sandals.
They are cut off from society. Sister Rose Marie will never leave the monastery, unless there’s a medical emergency. She’ll never call or email or text anyone, either. The rules seem so arbitrarily harsh. She gets two family visits per year, but converses through a see-through screen. She can write letters to her friends, but only if they write to her first. And once every 25 years, she can hug her family.
Don’t really have much more I want to say about this, other than I recommend you read the linked story.