Across the Centuries
Li Po was an important part of the modernist revolution Pound engineered. –David Hinton, The Selected Poems of Li Po, 125
Word of the Day: Adhitthana
“Resolute determination, decision, unshakable resolve, vow, will … It represents the steadfast strength of mind essential for applying oneself to a specific end and the refusal to vacillate in the face of obstacles. ” –Mirka Knaster,…
Our Hearts Are Restless…
God is the very life of your soul as the soul is the life of your body. That’s the point St. Thomas makes in quoting St. Augustine. (All of St. Thomas is really only an…
Never Cease…
My friend and passionate reader Natalie Long just finished The Prison Meditations of Fr Alfred Delp and shared with me the following passage from the book. Pass it on! It remains only for me to…
Compensations
In the last year I’ve been losing my words, evidenced at this site by my almost exclusive posts of one-liners by others (mostly by the saints and mystics). Rather than kvetch about this diminishment (…
Today’s One-Liner (#343)
For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy. –Saint Thérèse of Lisieux,…
The Mystery of Memory
Nature sometimes joins her effects and her appearances to our acts with a sort of serious and intelligent appropriateness, as if she would compel us to reflect. For nearly a half hour a great cloud…
Tears Every Time
Thank you, Andrew Ivers, for sending this to me again!
Lately
In recent weeks, I am grateful for being able to learn from Elica Le Bon and Insurrection Barbie at X.
Compelling
His voice was deep and resonant and somehow brave, like the voice of old-time American heroes and orators. Something earnest and strong and humanly hopeful I liked about him, while the other poets were either…