Neietsu The latter half of Christmas morning I spent at a funeral. One of the Amish families had just lost their two-week-old baby. The family lived nearby – I had already met the child’s great-uncle – and I knew another family we knew here would be there. But there was another reason I wanted to go. […]
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Amish Funeral.
25-Dec-15Cheryl Strayed’s Vita Nuova.
12-Feb-15http://koolkoncepts.com/trane-air-conditioning-heating-products/ In my previous essay about Cheryl Strayed’s excellent book Wild, I took as my theme the nature of the experience Strayed had, a truly transformational one which ultimately changed her perspective on almost all the issues of importance. Tranformation of perspective like this is called in Greek metanoia, a wonderful word which implies both alteration […]
Virginia Brown.
11-Mar-10A really lovely tribute to a lady and a scholar, by her husband. Her story is as remarkable as she was: She had grown up in Lake Providence, Louisiana, a small town in the northeast of the state near the Arkansas border, in what was and still is the poorest county in the United States. […]
Oscar the Horror-Movie Cat.
13-Feb-10I know there are lots of people who are creeped out by cats, but this will creep out (and impress) even cat lovers: a cat in a nursing home who makes the rounds with the doctors, and every patient he curls up to snuggle with dies within a few hours. He’s done this for years, […]
As you grow older you learn that a key dimension of all religious narrative is that these are stories which you will, by virtue of being human, almost certainly reenact in your own life. Andrew Sullivan, who has been leading one of the most impressively public Christian lives, describes in few and eloquent words his […]
An Attempt At Self-Portraiture.
03-Nov-09When I moved up to the cabin, I brought a few boxes of unsorted papers with me, which I went through as the spirit prompted me. The completely useless papers – for with me, all things must be completely useless before I can destroy them – went into some paper bags which I keep by […]