I loved reading The Boys in the Boat over the summer. Impossible doings, like helping build a dam by dangling over and down a cliff face, and using a hammer while you hanging there, without sending yourself into an out-and-back ride ending with a smash, are legendary, and a legend is something that you share, [...]
Category: quotes to remember
Poetry today …
I found some poetry to share, written by Wallace Irwin. He was admired by Dr. Lambert of Tuesday's public health stories. The Rhyme of the Chivalrous Shark Most chivalrous fish of the oceanTo ladies forbearing and mild,Though his record be dark,Is the man-eating shark,Who will eat neither woman nor child. He dines upon seamen and [...]
Changing routines, quotes from Saint Augustine
I’m trying to change various parts of my life around: unimportant things like which day I go to the grocery store, and important parts like which days I visit my grandchildren. However, the first result of such changes is to confuse myself about what day it is. This is Friday. Blog post. Today I have [...]
Elizabeth Goudge and two houses
I wrote about the author Elizabeth Goudge a few days ago. I had just discovered her book, Henrietta’s House (1942) and hadn’t really enjoyed it. Even so, I realized that Internet Archive** had a lot of Goudge’s books and I started rereading the Eliot trilogy, The Bird in the Tree (1940), The Herb of Grace [...]
Holiness
Food for thought. I found an article from a Capuchin friar, written for a Capuchin Feast in June, but it has a lovely comment on the universal call to holiness. The blogger translated writings of a Capuchin Blessed. It is a delightful read. Some quotes... Holiness in the Christian and religious life is an obligation. [...]
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