Year: 2021

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Julian Laughs Heartily

Julian Laughs Heartily

I mentioned last week that I am going through a difficult time, and several of you replied with thanks for the newsletter, prayers, and well-wishes. I am so grateful for the support! In my Medieval Intellectual Tradition Class, we’ve been reading Julian of...

Imagery and Contemplation

Imagery and Contemplation

That’s a time-lapse photo of a highway (I believe U.S. Route 163 in Utah) leading to Monument Valley – with the center of the galaxy in the background. One of many astonishing astronomical photographs by Michael Abramy – but if that particular one doesn’t blow your...

Ambiguities

Ambiguities

Thomas Mann, Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man: I do not think that it is the essence and duty of the writer to join “with great fanfare” the main direction the culture is taking at the moment. I do not think and cannot from my very nature think that it is natural and...

Buster, Josephine, and Autumn

Buster, Josephine, and Autumn

Autumn is just beginning to hint at us here in central Texas, but whenever it comes I find myself thinking about this passage from C. S. Lewis’s Surprised by Joy in which he describes how in childhood he received certain “glimpses” of something beyond his experience,...