I’ve been writing an essay for Melinda for a while — she was kind enough to ask me to contribute to her series about Orthodox writers, artists and composers — and I had a leftover thought about culture that didn’t seem to fit anywhere. And what else is a blog for if not to be […]
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Finally made it from there to here, from Kansas City, MO to Phoenix, AZ. So what have we learned? White Elephants on Parade Well, for one thing, it doesn’t matter how much you prepare for it — when you have to shift all your worldly goods worth shifting, it’s just appalling to notice how […]
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Often the words of psalms and prayers do not touch us, their inner meaning seems strange and incomprehensible to us. And this is quite natural, for the whole setting and structure of our life — outwardly well-organized and inwardly empty — have so very little in common with the deserts and monasteries in which the […]
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I don’t know quite why I feel the need to apologize when I haven’t posted in a while. It’s kind of a silly impulse, given that blogging is strictly optional to my life and has to be even more optional to my loyal reader(s). But I felt kind of bad when I realized that it […]
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Originally posted in 2008, this ode to the yellow seemed worth a re-run. Driving home from church, I kept noticing the banks of wild sunflowers at each new rise in the road. They surprise me every year: It’s too late for bunches and bunches of bright yellow sunflowers to appear in every gully, massing out […]
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“Let us try to live in such a way that all our actions, our whole life may be, not a sleepy vegetation, but a development — as strong and deep as possible — of all our potentialities. And that this may take place, not some time in the future, but now — immediately, at every […]
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