Today’s One-Liner (#77)
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. –St. Francis of Assisi
Month: December 2024
Today’s One-Liner (#76)
“She has a rare quality of taking full responsibility in the moment for everything she does and says.” –Grigory Dashevsky, quoted in Maria Stepanova’s introduction to Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope, Everyman’s Library, 2023
Dear Annie and Lindsay
I was earlier going through a 2016-17 Moleskine commonplace book I kept, and came across the following passages I transcribed from Harold Bloom’s book, How to Read and Why. I hope you may enjoy at…
Gratitude Reminder
It is amazing in all the different ways we can be thankful here on Earth. We can be thankful for our coat that keeps us warm. For the butterflies that pollinate the pretty flowers. We…
Share the Wealth with Cait Stevenson: A People’s History of Medieval Women Mystics
(or, “Dear Lord, help me drink less wine so I don’t lose my temper”) Cait fell in love with medieval women’s mysticism during her MA at SLU when she realized they would be a much…