Archive for the 'Meditations' Category

Finish Your Unfinished Business

“Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; and so it is with man’s mind.” –St. Teresa of Avila “Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.” –John Updike The rain’s returned. Out the window, trees bend in submission. The maple seeds twirling in the wind
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The Value of Suffering

“As a boy, I’d learned that it’s the Latin, and maybe a Greek, word for ‘suffering’ that gives rise to our word ‘passion.’ Etymologically, the opposite of suffering is, therefore, ‘apathy’; the Passion of the Christ, say, is a reminder, even a proof, that suffering is something that a few high souls embrace to try to lessen the pains of
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Why Writers Must Be Audacious

“In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.” ―Goethe The neighborhood kids are holding me hostage. I wanted to write today about how we’re trained to fear getting out of line and yet writing well requires audacity. I was all set to write and then I realized the story was really about this: as
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Still Loving Ya, Miley: A Final(?) Word

  Two camps. Two paths. They say that’s all there are. The low road and the high. Lovers v. haters. And hate it or learn to love it, no one gets out. Everyone has to decide. Which way will I go? The way of the world or the way of the Lord? We hear of these all our lives and
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The Writer’s Commitment to Freedom

“Spring always new forms of life, from the soul of man that is joined to the soul of stone; Out of the meaningless practical shapes of all that is living or lifeless, Joined with the artist’s eye, new life, new form, new colour. Out of the sea of sound the life of music….” T.S. Eliot Many thoughts you have to
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