In Karr’s spiritual vision, we are like precious insects, preserved in the glowing amber of God’s love.
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Preserved in God’s Golden Sap
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Meditatio", Intimations of Immortality, Mary Karr, Meditation, William Wordsworth Comments closed
New GOP Speaker Is a Gilead Patriarch
Mike Johnson, a Christian neo-fascist who tried to overthrow the 2020 election, has just been elected as Speaker of the House. Gilead threatens.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Christian fascism, Congress, Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House Comments closed
Peace Poems for Israel and Gaza
Two peace poems, by an Israeli and a Palestinian-American, invite us to step beyond the hostilities.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Diameter of the Bomb", "Kindness", bombs, Israel-Hamas, Naomi Shihab Nye, war, Yehuda Amichai Comments closed
Has Voldemort Cursed the GOP?
What is causing such instability when Republicans attempt to choose a Speaker? Harry Potter may have the answer.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged dark magic, Dennis Hastert, GOP, Harry Potter, House of Representatives, J.K. Rowling Comments closed
Self-Satire’s Medicinal Properties
In “Wonderworks,” Fletcher contends that self-satire helped Socrates deal with death.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Angus Fletcher, death of Socrates, Douglas Adams, fear of death, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Irony, Phaedo, Plato, satire, Socrates, Wonderworks Comments closed
In Penny’s Mysteries, Art Gets Murdered
In Louise Penny’s murder mysteries, art is an authentic spiritual channel that can be corrupted in the receiving.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Beautiful Mystery, Leonard Cohen, Louise Penny, Margaret Atwood, murder mysteries, Trick of the Light Comments closed
It’s Your Limbs He Comes to Fill
Mary Karr’s poem on the resurrection imagines Jesus longing for life and returning to fill us in turn.
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How Lit Inspires Courage and Love
Fletcher in “Masterworks” argues that epic narrative can boost courage and lyric disclosure can do the same for love.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Fragment 16", "He seems to me a god", Angus Fletcher, courage, Homer, Iliad, literature as self help, love, Masterworks, Odyssey, Sappho Comments closed
Glück on the “Lethal, Unstable” Future
In “Empty Glass,” Glück does a deep dive into the many ways we strive to control an uncertain future.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Empty Glass", abusive relationships, control, Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis, Louise Glück, superstitions Comments closed
