My Girl Friday April 1, 2009 - September 16, 2021 Amongst the concepts that mark what we have in common the concept of mortality is preeminent…Clearly, dogs have no such understanding. If they have a practical awareness of death, they have no reflective awareness of mortality…But because...
“We must withdraw ourselves, to some extent, from the effects that are beyond our control and be content with the good will and the work that are the quiet expression of our inner life. We must be content to live without watching ourselves live, to...
This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it. -- Gilead, Marilyn Robinson Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round and pluck blackberries. --“Aurora Leigh,” Elizabeth Barrett Browning That life...
“Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.” --Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain I have never liked the phrase, “the new...
“Love is holy because it is like grace—the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.”—Marilynne Robinson, Gilead “Pity us, yes, but we are brave, and wild, more life in us than we can bear, the fire infolding itself on us.”—Marilynne Robinson, Lila “The language...
It also seems honorable that another woman would value motherhood over all my priorities. But I do not believe that I am selfish and she is not. There are women who chose motherhood for selfish reasons. There are mothers who act selfishly even if they...
I knew I wanted to live in Telluride and marry Joe at exactly the same moment. We had been bathing in a stream in town park just after a long run on part of the Hardrock course that goes right through town. This was back...
Tonight, I took my children over to my grandmother’s place to say goodnight, as I do every night when I am home visiting my parents in Richmond. She lives with them, so it is a short trip and one they really look forward to each...
If you live in Silicon Valley, or just on planet Earth, and you are surprised by the story that broke out of Google in the last few weeks, wherein an insane number of executives were found to have sexually harassed and violated female employees, the...
“It’s that I no longer know where I am. I seem to move around perfectly easily among people, to have perfectly normal relations with them. Is it possible, I ask myself, that all of them are participants in a crime of stupefying proportions? Am I...