One of the Best Last Lines Ever: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Read moreShredding and slicing, dividing and subdividing, the clocks of Harley Street nibbled at the June day, counselled submission, upheld authority, and pointed out in chorus the supreme advantages of a sense of proportion, until the mound of time was so far diminished that a commercial clock, suspended above a shop in Oxford Street, announced, genially […]
Read moreBut what is there in me that could remain hidden from you, O Lord, to whose eyes the depths of a man’s conscience lie bare, even if I refused to confess it to you? I would be hiding you from me, not me from you. —St. Augustine, from the tenth book of his Confessions.
Read moreDriving to the tennis courts yesterday afternoon with my children, we passed a group of young men sitting on a guard rail. They looked innocent enough; perhaps they’d stopped to rest for a few minutes in the warm sunshine. And then, just as our car passed, they stood one at a time and did the […]
Read moreSeven days and seven nights aboard the Norwegian Dawn (gotta love the names of these cruise-liners, yes?). A day in Tortola, a day in Samana, a day in St. Thomas, a day in the Bahamas. Free meals and buffets of excruciatingly abundant generosity. A new bathing suit. A hat with a wide brim. All-natural sunscreen. […]
Read moreAfter going to bed Too Late last night After waking up at 5:24 and getting up at 5:43 and reading the story of the parting of the Red Sea After showering and dressing and feeding the kitties, after setting the table for breakfast and tidying the kitchen and writing notes on napkins After fleeing the […]
Read moreRight now it is still the beginning of the day. Still the beginning of the weekend. Still the opening of these two wide-open spaces in the calendar of my life. I love my job, but I dearly love these days each week to be at home, to be with family, to wear comfortable clothes and […]
Read moreIt was all we were about on Saturday: Emma Grace’s birthday party. The guests would arrive at one and be gone by three, and from the time we got up in the morning until the very minutes they arrived, it was all streamers and icing and gathering things for games and setting up the punch […]
Read more“It is the dead who have lost their life, but the living experience death. Blessed is he who loves you, who loves his friend in you and his enemy for your sake. Only he to whom all are dear in Him who cannot be lost, can lose no one that he loves. And who is […]
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