From Dante’s Woods: The Patience of Hope
From the Dante’s Woods blog: The Church should model this too, as [Rowan] Williams says, “This suggests that the Church needs to be marked by profound patience: patience with actual…
” L’amour, ce n’est pas faire des choses extraordinaires, héroïques, mais de faire des choses ordinaires avec tendresse” – Jean Vanier (1928-2019)
Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche, has died aged 90. From Caramel Caramelo: « L’amour, ce n’est pas faire des choses extraordinaires, héroïques, mais de faire des choses ordinaires avec tendresse.…
“From birthday to death-day we continue to collect and weave together the materials of our minute private universe, as a bird builds its nest “
From the always interesting First Known When Lost here is a post with a wonderful piece of 0rose (rather than poetry, FKWL’s usual beat) by Walter de la Mare: “As…
“The Sonnet Is Dead”, a sonnet by Joanna Cleary
From the Summer 2018 issue of Temz Review here is a sonnet (of course) by Joanna Cleary. I like its ironic treatment of contemporary lit crit certainties. And of course,…
Priére, Erik Satie – performed by Reinbert de Leeuw
A while back I featured Reinbert de Leeuw performing Liszt’s 1880 “Via Crucis”, which seems to me at any rate proto-minimalist. Here from 1893 is the most recognised precursor of…
David Monacchi: “Fragments of Extinction”, the sounds of vanishing nature
With the prospect of mass extinction in the news, it seems a good time to reflect on the loss of soundscapes. In Ireland, the corncrake and the curlew were once…
“I am missing too many important things/because I don’t know how to read.” -‘If I Knew Braille’, a poem by Holly Day
From The Writing Disorder If I Knew Braille If I knew Braille, perhaps I could read the graffiti of purple-mouthed limpets clinging to old, sea-washed boulders the secret Bibles of…
#MarianMay – “Ave Maria Stella”, Nils Landgren trombone, Anders Bromand organ
Ave Maris Stella is an extremely versatile and influential piece of music, and moving away from the choral focus of Marian May so far, here is an instrumental version by…
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