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Sunday, August 31, 2025

God's friend

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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.           Teresa of Ávila, Life of Prayer          
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Poem: Blackberry-Picking

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for Philip Hobsbaum Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy pur...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Sounds of silence

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There is a wonderful stillness here. Especially I love the evenings, when I linger on my verandah and revel in the complete absence of all s...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Preference

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To know what you prefer,      instead of humbly saying Amen           to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,                is to ...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Uplifted

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The effort to understand the universe      is one of the very few things           which lifts human life a little above the level of farce ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Metaphysical outlaws

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If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Great inventions

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The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization.           John Banville, Paris Review interview        
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