March 2015

  • If our communication with the divine is stopped we begin to have strange dreams…. –Fr. Alfred Delp, S.J. There's more to the sentence but I like it that way. …and set up false gods–success, people, new orders, and so on.  

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  • I feel ill-prepared to write about Larry McMurtry though of course I picked him for this project. It has been 20+ years since I read a bulk of McMurtry’s oeuvre, so why did I decide on him as a subject? Because not too long ago (within the past two years) I re-read Lonesome Dove and…

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  • See previous post. This is very heartening. Thanks to Marianne for bringing it to my attention.  

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  • A Bruised Reed

    You may have seen the story at The Daily Beast in which Ana Marie Cox explains why she's coming out as a Christian. It's a touching statement, and my first thought was I hope the bruised reed won't be broken. I thought I recognized Cox's name. She was the originator of a blog called Wonkette, which I recall reading…

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  •   (Click on the image if you're having trouble reading the text.) That the drought has been a factor in the war is easy to believe. That the drought was caused by climate change is almost surely a much shakier assertion. I remember a conversation with a climate change affirmer in which she said something…

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  • Ronald Blythe, born in 1922, published his first book in 1960 and more than half a century on is still at it. His most recent release was a privately printed collection of poems, which came out late last year. In the interim he has written fiction, literary criticism, biography, and nature and travel books. And…

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