Meghan Good’s reflections on the prayer of welcome by Thomas Keating (“Welcome God on the road of suffering,” Oct. 29) were meaningful to me. I’d
In the artisans’ courtyard at the Royal Palace of Abomey, Benin, where the king of Abomey still holds court, I admired the work of local artists — bronze figurines of roaring lions, appliqued maps of Africa, a weaver’s shuttle dancing back and forth.