We cannot make a child ‘good’; but, in this way, we can lay paths for the good life in the very substance of his brain. We cannot make him hear the voice of God; but, again, we can make paths where the Lord God may walk in the cool of the evening. We cannot make…
I’ve been reading Edwin Way Teale’s book Circle of the Seasons this year. A little selection, well written, every day about nature observed. Yesterday’s stood out to me as perhaps more than a natural observation, but a metaphor for our times as well. An old maple tree, that I have known for many years near…
I begged to look about the garden. My request evidently pleased the old gentleman, who took me all round the place and showed me his six-and-twenty cows, named after the different letters of the alphabet. As we went along, he surprised me occasionally by repeating apt and beautiful quotations from the poets, ranging easily from…
I’ve been reading Matthew Barrett’s None Greater and enjoying it immensely. It has given much to chew on. I’m reading the chapter on impassibility right now and new ideas keep connecting with some of my other reading. Impassibility seems to me to be not being tossed on the passions and emotions. It isn’t that God…
Oh, my. I really had no intention of not posting for quite this long. I almost forgot how to login. Here I am, and I believe I’m going to reinstate Wednesdays with Words for 2022. Wednesdays with Words was a linkup first begun by Cindy Rollins lo these many blog-years ago. I took it over…
So far in 2021, I’ve been steeping myself in Ancient thought. I never really would have guessed that I would choose to power myself through Epic Poetry … and love it. But I have. There have been moments. Mostly during my first listen to the Aeneid when I wondered, “What have I gotten myself into?!”…
I already missed a week and I haven’t blogged since the last flotsam and jetsam post … I listened to A Room with a View by E.M. Forester and … while there was some good and interesting parts and it was well done, I didn’t love it. I really struggled to like something with which…
I thought I’d add a new regular feature here at ladydusk thinking through the things that have come to the surface over the past week (or so). I’ve often enjoyed those amalgamation posts where small thoughts are gathered and smooshed. I almost called the feature ‘small thoughts,’ but decided to go with flotsam and jetsam…
The Genesis Trilogy: And It Was Good, A Stone for a Pillow, Sold into Egypt by Madeleine L’Engle My rating: 4 of 5 stars It has taken me a long time to read this because weighing in at close to 600 pages, reading a page or two per night doesn’t move things along quickly; and…
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a powerful book. It’s important, too. Yeonmi Park tells her story from childhood through her early 20s, and much happens to her in that time. Her young childhood is fraught with deprivations and…