:: word gathering ~ The Great Books ::
" I believe a work of art is primarily concerned with the creation of beauty, whether through words, colors, shapes, sounds, or movement....
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- Sep 19
:: a reading journey ::
“ I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that...
- Sep 11
:: pierced heart & soul ::
" Literature, before anything else, is saying, Be mindful. Stop whatever you are doing & notice. Allow yourself to be seized by this." ...
- Aug 15
:: all the lovely tales ::
" All lovely tales that we have heard or read: An endless fountain of immortal drink, Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink. Nor do...
- Aug 5
:: of loving transformation ::
" When we reread a novel, we encounter it as all the ages we have been as well as the age we are now. Our souls are steeped in the story....
- Aug 1
:: making your soul grow ::
" To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it." {Kurt Vonnegut} perusing...
- Jul 22
:: delights of the poet... ::
" The delights of the poet as I jotted them down turned out to be light, solitude, the natural world, love, time, creation itself." ...
- Jul 14
:: in a joy which illumines ::
" Her home was always witch-tales and words, stories into which she could escape... it was the soft quiet of the stacks and the scratch...
- Jun 24
:: for the love of the classics ::
The sacred flame of pure devotion glowed in my heart, and elevated my soul to sublimity. The world and all its recollections faded from...
- Jun 20
:: a mind settled & satisfied ::
" My mind is settled and satisfied with the right of possession. I never travel without books, for it is wonderful what repose I take,...
- Jun 14
:: shaping our very essence... ::
" I think the first reason we read is to shape our very essence, to form the selves from which we act. We read first to shape the person...
- Jun 6
:: a little world of one's own ::
" I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything...
- May 27
:: the air swims with life ::
" We return to the house and take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! The air swims with life; the front...
- May 13
:: a charm of stillness ::
" A charm of stillness in which something gathers..." Between the pages a silence gathers. The world finds pause, the ticking of the...
- Apr 14
:: word gathering ~ slow reading ::
" Slow reading is a craft, a practice, a quiet movement, a meditative approach to the reading life." ~ to feel our landscape marvelously...
- Mar 12, 2021
:: divine delights - the bookstore ::
" Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world." {Vincent van Gogh} " I like old bookstores, the smell of coffee...
- Mar 6, 2021
:: the mysteries of udolpho ::
Last January, I found myself happily immersed between the pages of this mysterious, often funny and highly entertaining gothic novel. I...
nestled in quietude