Writing Bliss: Fall 2024-Winter 2025
A few days ago my friend Lindsay Wolff inquired if I was doing a writing class this fall. Giving it some thought, I decided to offer the following just because I thought it could be…
Month: September 2024
Today’s One-Liner (#60)
Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. –Staretz Zosima, “Of Prayer, Love, and the Touching of Other Worlds,” in Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Easter morning 2012, Chouteau AvenuePhoto by Andrew Wimmer
Today’s One-Liner (#59)
De même que les prêtres ayant la plus grande expérience du cœur, peuvent le mieux pardonner aux péchés qu’ils ne commettent pas, de même le génie ayant la plus grande expérience de l’intelligence peut le…
Share the Wealth
I am justified in preserving too many of Johnson’s sayings, than too few. –James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
Today’s One-Liner (#58)
“Ram Dass, give up anger.” Neem Karoli Baba (aka Maharajji), quoted in Ram Dass, Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita
This Is, Because That Is
It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. Everything around him, this quiet garden, these balmy flowers, these children, shouting with joy, these meek and simple women, this silent cloister, gradually entered…
Today’s One-Liner (#57)
The purer your thinking, the finer will be your work. –Sri Anandamayi Ma, in Joseph Fitzgerald, ed., The Essential Sri Anandamayi Ma: Life and Teachings of a 20th Century Indian Saint
Second Thoughts on Kerouac
But, disconcertingly, Kerouac was as likable in the flesh as he was repellent in print. In contrast to the seething Ginsberg, who went at me with everything he had, Kerouac (in spite of being the…
Today’s One-Liner (#56)
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway. –Mother Teresa
La Fin du Roman
Karamazov, s’écria Kolia, est-ce vrai ce que dit la religion, que nous ressusciterons d’entre les morts, que nous nous reverrons les uns les autres, et tous, et Ilioucha ? Oui, c’est vrai, nous ressusciterons, nous…