About a month ago I posted an Abbey Bookshelf edition on Illuminated Manuscripts. In that post I mentioned how I long for some of the Saint John's Bible volumes. In today's mail, I received a package postmarked in Phoenix with editions of the Pentateuch, Psalms, Prophets, and Gospels and Acts. How I swooned at the sight [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Invitation to Poetry: and a donkey shall lead them
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This is our 18th Poetry Party! I select an image and suggest a title and invite you to respond with your poems, words, reflections, quotes, song lyrics, etc. Leave them in the comments or email me and I’ll add them to the body of the post as they come in along with a link back [...]
Visual Meditation: Cloisters (Part Two)
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God’s Grief Great parent who must have started out with such high hopes. What magnitude of suffering, the immensity of guilt, the staggering despair. A mind the size of the sun, burning with longing, a heart huge as a gray whale breaching, streaming seawater against the pale sky. Man-god or beast god god that breathes [...]
Abbey Bookshelf: A Dog's Life
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Percy (Two) I have a little dog who likes to nap with me. He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck. He is sweeter than soap. He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace, which can't even bark. I would like to take him to Kashmir and the Ukraine, [...]
Happy Second Bloggiversary to Me!
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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. -M.C. Richards The most visible creators I know of are those artists whose medium is life itself. The ones who express the unexpressible – without brush, hammer, clay or guitar. They neither paint nor sculpt – their medium is being. Whatever their [...]
this week's winner. . .
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. . . is Tom Delmore at Crow’s Perch! Tom, email me with your snail mail address and your choice of zine — either Praying With the Elements, Callings, or What is Blossoming Within You? and I will send that off to you. What an amazing collection of poetry as usual for this week's Poetry [...]
Visual Meditation: Cloisters (Part One)
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“In poetry, language is not the only medium; silence is also a medium. We might even say that, in poetry, the very purpose of the language is to inflect the silences. It’s like after church bells ring: the air resonates with their sound. In poetry, the silences are resonant, from the language that precedes them. [...]
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