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José Andrés: People of Good Conscience Must Stop the Starvation in Gaza nytimes.com/2025/07/27/opi…
S. Martha, caring and hospitable, 'cumbered with much serving' appeals to our humanity From her diligence we learn not to be so overcome by daily duty that we neglect love; from her profession of faith we learn that life in God makes us experience wonders that seemed impossible
Joan of Arc in Rouen nybooks.com/articles/2025/… via @nybooks
GERALDINE CLARKSON Singletary 2025 @SerenBooks The appearance of a chapbook by GC is an event, an intervention in the life of English. Think Theolonous Monk. Each sentence a piece of concrete expression, a happy/sad story. One participates, rocking, exuberant, grateful.
Here is @victoriamoul's elegy about prayer and attention from NVR's summer issue.
The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. — Walter Benjamin 🎨 Klee's “Angelus Novus”
🌿Le soleil n’est jamais si beau qu’un jour où l’on se met en route. Jean Giono
🌿On ne se remet pas de l’enfance, on se déplace au bord, on y revient en pensées, en rêves, en souvenirs - toute notre seensibilité en découle, et la manière dont le monde a trouvé sens en nous. Anne Dufourmantelle / Intelligence du rêve.
"For me, the book is not the swift object of a reading; it conceals a mutual: a time and someone." Maria Gabriela Llansol
Escape from the Land of the Dead: On Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door lithub.com/escape-from-th… via @lithub
🌿Et puis lire et songer, et puis Acquérir l’amoureux appui De l’orgueil que je te confère Par mon cœur, incessant brasier Qui forge ta claire fortune Sur le sol l’ombre des rosiers Comme un geste extasié De la terre à la douce lune. A de Noailles
Dawn’s first light ignites Blood-orange blaze across the sky Below, pearl-pale sea Holds its breath in milky calm, Midsummer’s wide, silent hush.
This is the center of Meister Eckhart’s teaching. 📚🙏 From ‘Meister Eckhart’s Book of Darkness and Light’
With great sadness, I just heard of the passing of Jane Greer. I didn’t know her well, but she seemed a very good soul. And her poems are wonderful
A very Lenten, a very wonderful poem from @NorthDakotaJane
Friday Links — Dappled Things dappledthings.org/deep-down-thin…
Today it is not nearly enough merely to be a saint; but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent. – Simone Weil, Waiting for God
I read War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944, by Iris Origo (1947). Astonishing how the Origos kept their wits as Germans, Fascists, partisans, POWs, orphans, refugees, and eventually the Allies, descend upon La Foce, their villa & estate in Tuscany. Amazing story.
From the Vineyard Gazette: Acclaimed Poet Fanny Howe Dies at 84 shar.es/agAoti