:: shimmering on the pages ::
" He had the indistinct feeling that the priest's forgiveness was the greatest assault and most tremendous attack he had ever...
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Sep 9, 2023
:: The smile of the soul... ::
" The deliciousness of discovering a masterwork. The beauty of the first sentences, the 'what is this?', the 'how can it be?', the first...
Jun 12, 2023
:: dancing & shimmering ::
" Ivy had always cherished books for the stillness they allowed in a world that valued fast, unforgiving progress regardless of the human...
May 18, 2023
:: heart of this moment... ::
" The camera unites my hands & mind. I am utterly absorbed, rapt, fully present and intensely alive. This alignment of body & senses in...
Apr 8, 2023
:: the one o'clock hour ::
" There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea." {Henry James} one...
Dec 19, 2022
:: dear companions... ::
" Ye dear companions of my silent hours, whose pages oft before my eyes would strew so many sweet & variegated flowers..." {fr; book...
Sep 21, 2022
:: 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....
Sep 19, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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...
nestled in quietude
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