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Once, while Henry David Thoreau was hoeing in a garden, a sparrow alighted on his shoulder. As is the wont of little birds, it stayed there only for a moment, and then flew away. Thoreau considered it…
Like everyone else, I like good food no matter where it comes from for as long as it is clean. I have no special knowledge of cooking, but I do have some eating skills. And to any…
Because the baby kept her up all night, her mother turned her over to us in the morning so she could get some sleep. Naturally, we received our granddaughter with not a little excitement. After lolling and…
Always, when I yearn for religious poetry, I turn to Gerard Manley Hopkins. His words seem freshly minted, and the delight I get from reading his poems does not differ from that of a child who discovers…
Journeys fascinate me, especially the journey home. More than the setting out, I find the coming back more heart tugging The first has to do with discovery, the second with recovery, and it may be said that,…
In 1953, Nikos Kazantzakis published a novel entitled, “The Greek Passion.” It is set in the 1920s, towards the end of the Greco-Turkish war. The village of Lycovrissi, which lies inside Turkey, holds a live Passion play…
Most literature textbooks include a short story, entitled, “In a Grove,” by a Japanese author, Ryunosoke Akutagawa. It first appeared in the January 1922 issue of a Japanese publication. The legendary director, Akira Kurosawa, based his award-winning…
Except for one, we only have fragments of Sappho’s poems. Among the best known is Fragment No. 104A, which Anne Carson translates into English in this manner: Evening you gather back all that dazzling dawn has put…
Years ago, I strolled about the seminary grounds with an Irish colleague, who kept reciting a poem, which, he said, was by Robert Frost, and whose title was, “The Road Not Taken.” That introduced me to Frost,…
I didn’t know what got into me — I took a shot of my lunch with my phone camera. It was not because the prandium was great. Why, I only had fried fish, squash stewed in coconut…
What thoughts did Piero della Francesca have When he painted the fresco of the Resurrection? Was it a bright day in Sansepolcro As he applied the pigments on the lime and sand? Anyway, the real brush is…
In Padua, northern Italy, at the Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), we find frescoes done by Giotto portraying scenes from the life of Christ. One of them depicts an incident narrated in the Gospel of John, about the…
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