What fills your tank? Here's a memorable talk I listened to, at a retreat for leaders of women's Bible studies in Williamsburg . The speaker, svelte, beautiful, rich, put a crystal water jug in front of us. Into it, she put the keys of her … [Continue reading]
Strictly Come Dancing, Chez Mathias
Strictly Come Dancing, Chez Mathias We are a TV free family, though we do buy DVDS of BBC documentaries, and feature films, of course. So Irene has never seen Strictly Come Dancing, or X Factor (neither have I!). I was playing something rowdy by … [Continue reading]
Church: A Place of Pain–and Healing.
Church: A Place of Pain--and HealingI spent a wonderful and healing couple of hours at a friends' house over pots of tea recently. She said that there was not a Sunday over the last few years when she did not leave church in tears, and sob on the way … [Continue reading]
Mind/Body
I have long been fascinated by the link before the mind and emotions and bodily health. The pop anthropologist, Desmond Morris explains in Man-Watching that when one has had entirely too much, people tend to get ill. They take to bed, and are … [Continue reading]
Holman Hunt–The Scapegoat
Inscribed on the frame:'Surely he hath borne our Griefs, and carried our Sorrows/Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of GOD, and afflicted.' (Isaiah LIII, 4)'And the Goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a Land not … [Continue reading]
An A.S. Byatt interview
A. S. Byatt, The Art of Fiction No. 168Interviewed by Philip HensherPRINT|TWITTER|FACEBOOK|MORE|View a manuscript pageHere's an interesting interview with A.S. Byatt, whose Angels and Insects I am currently reading with great pleasure.A. S. Byatt, … [Continue reading]
A Steady GI Joy
A Steady GI Joy Since I am in many ways a bratty girl who likes to live my life at a high level of intensity (happy intensity, of course) I have always being seeking for consistent joy--not the chocolate and sugar rush of joy, but a constant … [Continue reading]
Dreamers of the Day
Dreamers of the DayAll men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, … [Continue reading]
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