From Lee Watkins’s blog – Henry Miller’s Christmas
One of the nice things about growing older is that you lose some of the inhibitions about admitting you haven’t read a particular writer. One of the less nice things…
Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
One of the nice things about growing older is that you lose some of the inhibitions about admitting you haven’t read a particular writer. One of the less nice things…
I first discovered Neil Young’s “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” via St Etienne’s version. If a “standard” can be defined as a song whose essence and meaning transcend the…
It is good to see Gordon Hempton and the One Square Inch of Silence project getting some coverage. Hempton’s book is much the best of the series of search-for-silence books which…
I should love Robert MacFarlane’s “Landmarks”, but it is proving strangely difficult to get through. Normally I reserve any kind of reviewing judgment on books until I have completely finished…
Five years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a soft inland murmur.–Once again Do…
I have been working through the previously discussed The Search for Something More by Peter Hannan and the various exercises therein (this image which rather I posted rather cryptically is part of another…
Recently I came across a copy of The Search For Something More by Peter Hannan, S.J. , subtitled “A Journey to Human Fulfillment”, published in 2001. Who doesn’t want to be fulfilled? “We live…