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Wisdom.

09-Feb-15

buy prednisone online now “Wisdom consists of doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with all your heart, and doing it with delight… and that delight is a sense of the sacred.” – Helen Luke

Fathers, Sons, Punishment, Forgiveness, Christianity and Islam.

09-Oct-12

UK medication isotretinoin isotretinoin buy online I was born Catholic, and I remain so, but I do not believe I became a real Christian until four years ago, when I had what we may as well call my conversion. It happened as follows. Some young men have difficulty measuring up to their fathers. My brother and I have had something of […]

Rereading Dante.

15-Dec-11

I’ve been reading the Divine Comedy recently.  It continues to astonish me.  I remember reading it in college, as a freshman, and feeling quite certain that Purgatorio was better than the Inferno, and Paradiso was best of all.  As time has gone on I have become only more aware that this is most emphatically a […]

Stopped me in my tracks when I read it…

20-Jan-10

“The most coveted gift of the Devil is the power of revenge.” – Helen Luke Ugh.  How terrible it is that so few of us have lives short enough not to know the meaning of this.

Helen Luke and Dante.

15-Oct-09

Time spent among people reveals just how difficult it is, even for the most worthy and competent, to be capable of real love and relationship.  Developing this capacity is in truth the sole bifocal commandment of the Christian religion, all others being mere ancillae; and it is also the goal of Jung’s school of psychoanalysis, […]

All’s Well That Ends Well.

10-Sep-09

All’s Well That Ends Well is one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays,” those plays whose resolution is most unsatisfactory; the poet’s justice seeming to us injustice. The Count Roussillon, whose father died when he was a minor, became a ward of the French king, who thereupon had the power to bestow him in marriage; and the […]

Helen Luke’s Way of Discrimination.

26-Aug-09

“Seems, madame? Nay it is; I know not seems.” – Hamlet Helen Luke is not one of the easier writers to write about. She appeared as a guide in my life when I began to feel the difference between exterior and interior, fact and meaning, appearance and reality. These distinctions are not for everyone nor […]

Solitude and Meeting.

17-Aug-09

I have written before about spending several months alone in a cabin in the Catskill Mountains of New York. A friend asked me, “After you’ve spent so much time alone, how does that change your life when you’re not alone? Do you bring the fruits of your solitude with you down to the city?” I […]

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings

17-Jan-09

The Lord of the Rings is not a trilogy from any but the publisher’s perspective: the story fits into three volumes, but it is not in three parts. Tolkien divided it into six “books,” and each book does have a unified field of vision, but none of them can stand on their own and none […]