February 2010
“All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst...”
– Denis Johnson, “Beverly Home”
“Through the neighborhoods and past the platforms, I felt the cancelled life...”
– Denis Johnson, “Dirty Wedding”
“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it...”
– ebertchicago (via seashelllz)
“…I’m not interested in making a good photograph, I’m really interested in having...”
– Joel Meyerowitz (via bareps) (via meestarman)
“The human being develops when he grows in the spirit, when his soul comes to...”
– Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas et veritate 76
“Moving beyond the fascination that technology exerts, we must reappropriate the...”
– Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in veritate 70
“What’s important for me to remember now is that early the next morning the...”
– Denis Johnson, “Emergency”
“On the other hand, following the example of Guardini, one could seek above all...”
– Balthasar, Explorations in Theology II: Spouse of the World, p 430la nouvelle théologie: A More Comprehensive Ecclesiology of the Laity
“[Amor meus, pondus meum.] Weight doesn’t only go down, but to its proper place....”
– St. Augustine, Confessions 13, 9
“La Quaresima ci invita a lasciare l’immagine che noi abbiamo di noi stessi per...”
– Don Massimo Camisasca, Lasciare spazio all’Altro
“All by myself, I read the Gospel, and experienced measureless delight. What a...”
– Eugenio Zolli, The Jew, Jesus, Who Changed the Life of the Chief Rabbi of Rome
Consolation
Those chatterers: friends of Job’s who offer cheap explanations, justifications to deep grief. Trite phrases, relief on their faces, you not them: we all get used to it. While God’s silence echoes over a chasm of outrage, His pierced hands fastened as mine to the juncture of destiny and agonizing time.
2007
“His genius lay in the natural way he saw, in front of his eyes, the events of...”
– Don Luigi Giussani 1922-2005
“Generally the closest I ever came to wondering about the meaning of it all was...”
– Denis Johnson, “Out on Bail”
“His blood bubbled out of his mouth with every breath. He wouldn’t be...”
– Denis Johnson, “Car Crash While Hitchhiking”
“In the simplicity of my heart I have gladly given everything, and because of...”
– Ambrosian Rite, Feast of the Sacred Heart
