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At one time, while our car struggled to gain headway in the midst of traffic, I caught a glimpse of a house, all but standing beside the road except for a few meters of setback. A tree…
Thomas Merton has a three-part poem, entitled, “St. John Baptist.” The first part speaks of John’s leaving the desert and entering the area of the River Jordan, and how the scribes find his language hard to understand…
December — how quickly we have moved into the month, and so imperceptibly that it makes no sense now to say, from there to here. We saw no thresholds, we made no entrances. In accordance with liturgical…
The wife and I have decided to stay home today. Both of us feel under the weather, and we attribute this to our age, as well as to changes in the atmosphere — the usual heat interspersed…
I know precious little about royalty. The closest I ever got to a monarch happened years ago in a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, during a conference for judges. Word spread that the king of a certain country…
I just turned twelve when this happened and in first year high school. I read an item in a newspaper about the end of the world, which fixed it at a certain date in July of that…
In the Brooklyn Museum hangs a watercolor painting by James Joseph Jacques Tissot, a French artist who lived towards the end of the twentieth century. It depicts a scene that Mark writes about in his Gospel, in…
The world of the senses gives body to the world of the spirit. For this reason I have learned to pay attention to such as the shine of paper clips lying on the tabletop, the meandering of…
In our English Lit in high school, we were required to learn John Milton’s sonnet, “On His Blindness,” by heart. I had no trouble memorizing it, being short and simple. And the sonnet’s famous last line has…
How a person behaves in a queue is an index of his character. If he cuts in he is probably someone who does not respect the rights of others. I’ve seen people do this shrewdly. Taking advantage…
As a child I associated camels with Christmas, in particular with the Three Kings, whom they transported across vast deserts to offer their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the Infant Jesus. Depictions of the Three…
Among William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, which he published in 1609, I particularly like Sonnet 116. It describes genuine love as “the marriage of true minds,” unaffected by changing tastes and resistant to temptations. Let me not to…
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