I LOVE this sentence from Janet Frame, so rich in ideas and experience. There are 23 clauses, 23 little details in this single sentence. Of course, no one is going to read it carefully, take in all she is telling us, and I suspect she was writing for … [Continue reading]
Thomas Merton on Work from “Seeds of Contemplation”
From Thomas Merton’s Seeds of Contemplation: The requirements of a work to be done can be understood as the will of God. If I am supposed to hoe a garden or make a table, then I will be obeying God if I am true to the task I am performing. To do … [Continue reading]
How they live on, those giants of our childhood, Frederick Buechner
How they live on, those giants of our childhood, and how well they manage to take even death in their stride, because although death can put an end to them right enough, it can never put an end to our relationship with them. Wheverever or … [Continue reading]
Writing and Prayer (Published in the Christian Century, 2000)
Writing and Prayer Writing and Prayer. We read about them, write about them, talk about them, agonize about them, resolve to do them, wish we’d done them, more than we actually do them. In … [Continue reading]
Mid life Transformations. By renewal of the mind.
I am doing an intensive French conversational weekend tomorrow and on Sunday, 9-4 each day. And doing a 9-6 conference at church with Roy next week, Monday to Friday, lead by John and Carol Arnott of the Toronto Airport Fellowship (Toronto … [Continue reading]
The bush of Oxford
I had a sweet Kenyan lady come & catch me up with housework & house chores today. She worked for 5 hours, left everything gleaming, & adamantly refused a lift to Oxford from our village, insisting she'd walk. I pointed out a lovely quiet … [Continue reading]
Salman Rushdie–Wandering between Two Worlds
Rushdie--The CourterI became a British citizen that year. And the passport did, in many ways, set me free. It allowed me to come and go, to make choices. But I too have ropes around my neck, I have them to this day, pulling me this … [Continue reading]
Rainer Maria Rilke on a really good sentence!
Rilke on a really good sentence“Alas, those verse one writes in youth aren’t much. One should wait and gather meaning and sweetness all his life, a long one if possible, and then maybe at the end he might write ten good lines. For poetry … [Continue reading]
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