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Judith Valente is a poet, a correspondent for “Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly'' on PBS and commentator for WGLT-Radio in Illinois. Her latest book, “Atchison Blue: A Search for Silence, a Spiritual Home and a Living Faith,” chronicles her many visits with the Benedictine sisters of Mount St. Scholastica, a monastery in Atchison, Kansas. Photo courtesy of Judith Valente