August 2006
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Fence to the Sea, Photo
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Rilke on Destiny
Poet Rainier Marie Rilke writes in Letters to a Young Poet: Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread, and held and carried by a hundred others. And to the young artist he advises: To be an artist means not to compute or count; it means to ripen as the tree, which does not force its sap, but stands...
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A Lonely Mission
Graham Greene in Collected Essays:
[Father] Noel Chabanel came later to the mission for he did not reach the Huron country until 1643. He detested the Indian life—the smoke, the vermin, the filthy food, the impossibility of privacy. He could not study by the smoky lodge fires, among the noisy crowd of men and squaws, with their dogs and their restless, screeching children. He had a natural...
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The Conviction of Beauty
The counterpart to fear is beauty, as is love. Beauty answers mockery that is death and the ugliness of sin which we see in ourselves and others because it is the promise that it can’t all end this way. It’s a promise that we don’t make, but that is offered ceaselessly, daily, to us.
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Rose
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