LENTEN PROSE

RESPITE

"Sooner or later we all need to shut down or run away for a little while."

Ariella Budick - TLS 2.11.16


INTROIT - 2nd Sunday:

Tibi dixit cor meum, quaesivi vultum tuum, vultum tuum Domine requiram: ne avertas faciem tuam a me.

My heart declared to you: "Your countenance have I sought; I shall ever seek your countenance, O Lord; do not turn your face from me." The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?

POLITICAL RANT

I am appalled at the degree of right wing specious cant that we have to endure these days in public discourse. 

Sadly much of it leading to the actions we've seen today in NZ and similar incidents in this country - a true crisis unlike the made up Southern boarder crisis. 

Homophonic, misogynist bigoted discourse coming from the mouths of those like Graham. Jordan, Gaetz, Meadows etc and Tucker C and all of Fox News.

All led and enabled by a phoney, illegitimate POTUS.

LES LIVRES ET LA LECTURE

             Encore une fois plus sur les livres et la lecture Currently re-reading much of Isherwood - Mr Norris Changes Trains; Goodbye to Berlin; The Memorial; Lions and Shadows. These early works are interesting. Just finishing Goodbye to Berlin. It offers some interesting psychological insights in its portrayal of Sally and Otto and his English friend (Lover? - This ambiguous).

LENT

ASH WEDNESDAY

MARCH 6TH

LENT CALLS US 

TO 

A LIFE OF SILENCE STUDY & SERVICE

HEROES

Many if not most would agree that we do not live in an                HEROIC AGE                            

                    BUT YET WE ALL HAVE HEROES - PAST And CURRENT -

So I ask myself who are my heroes - and there are some I consider heroic - for different reasons.

This past Sunday I was minded that for many years I had admired John Henry Newman - and I still do.

Of course as we grow older and a bit more wise we come to the realisation that our heroes often have feet of clay - and that's just fine.

SOME FIGURES OR THE WORK OF THAT I ADMIRE - Not necessarily heroes:

Racine

Thomas Jefferson

Annie Ernaux

John Cheever

Tennesse Williams

Jimmy Carter

WHERE THERE ARE HEROS THERE ARE INEVITABLY VILLAINS!

White hats vs. Black hats

Some villains - public and personal - A sample from recent events:

Mark Meadows

Jim Jordan

Donald Trump

- RULE OF LIFE -

Our lives and relationships should be guided by this rule

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 In dubiis libertas in omnibus caritas

--LIVING--

LONGEVITY IS A CURSE

LIFE IS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY

In the time of Trump and Brexit