I did not feel like writing yesterday, nor today. I thought of all sorts of excuses not to sit down at my desk. There was some laundry to be done–maybe a sweater or two…and two pairs of jeans. There was that bill that came in the mail on Saturday; I really should be paying it–oh, […]
John Updike’s “Seven Stanzas at Easter”
Bevin, a friend from Georgia whom I’ve never officially met, sent this lovely poem to me through Facebook. Thanks, Bevin! What I didn’t know, until I did a little research, is that John Updike won “Best in Show” in a church writing contest with it, when he was a Harvard graduate attending Clifton Lutheran Church […]
Making Kind Choices
A couple of years ago, Dan and I were watching Jesus Camp (which needs its own separate review, and which I have neither the stamina nor the strength to review here…there are so many astonishingly appalling things said in that movie…I wouldn’t know where to begin!) when there was a scene of a mother and […]
Planting Questions in Story
Working out personal questions of faith within a novel might not be the best thing; however, it works for me. [Two novels I’ve discussed within these pages, of course, that attempt to do the same thing are Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow and The Children of God, both of the science fiction genre, which I […]
Rilke’s Book of Hours & Dan’s Painting
If you love to read poems that make you gasp slightly, that say something to the deep core of you, you’ll love Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. It’s no secret I’m a fan of Rilke; in fact I’ve taken my blog name from one of […]