My friend Susan recently told me an inspiring story, and she gave me permission to share it here. Susan is an utterly sane cat lady. Bona fide. Not long ago a friend at a shelter called her to ask if she would take a cat that had been traumatized. “This cat is going to die […]
This evening I am attending the wedding celebration of my cousin’s daughter. In that spirit, here is an audio clip of Richard Wilbur reading his poem, “A Wedding Toast.” (See the link.) https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/wedding-toast-audio-only?mbd=1
When Emily St. John Mandel’s novel, Station Eleven, first came out in hardback, I resisted it. I picked it up a few times, reading the opening (I loved the opening), but — oh, gee, it was another dystopian novel, and did I really want to read or watch one more story about the end of life as we know […]
So yesterday I spent a bunch of time beating myself up for writing that blogpost. For whining. But as often happens, my whining elicited a flurry of emails of support and affirmation and encouragement. In one, several passages from Thomas Merton, including this one: “The purpose of education is to show us how to define […]