I’ve written before about trying to transform pain or anxiety into something beautiful. Today I got so frustrated I couldn’t find the right words to make it OK. So I turned to an expert: You say I am repeating Something I have said before. I shall say it again. Shall I say it again? InContinue reading >>
The sidelines of history: How the Irish Saved Civilization
Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to see life in a comic light becomes irrestistible, and ambition falls before it. – William V. Shannon, quoted in Thomas Cahill’s How the Irish Saved Civilization [Naturally I would turnContinue reading >>
The Doorway into Thanks
Praying by Mary Oliver It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and aContinue reading >>
Five things for Ash Wednesday
As it always does, the liturgical calendar has wended it’s way back to Ash Wednesday and we are off again on our Lenten adventures. Because I have a busy day with a number of rehearsals (and of course, some church!) I am not sure if or when I will have time to write the wordsContinue reading >>
Barbarous in beauty
Summer ends now, barbarous in beauty… I wish I could claim to have written that, but the truth is it is the beginning of one of the many poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins that tears my heart out whenever I read it. Yesterday I woke up and stepped outside and it felt like a fallContinue reading >>
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