Author: Tim
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A Short Story: Uncle Euliss Fixed Model T’s
Euliss’ first trade was fixing model T cars. He could tear down a model T and put it back together again, he said. The first V8 engine came out in 1932 and Euliss went to help run his dad’s filling station the next year. They ran the Amoco station for 11 years till the route…
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Pack’s Market
In about 1967, the Summer Of Love elsewhere, we moved to a leafy city block in a new town. I was 11 and always barefoot, even when running down the gravel alley to the little grocery on the corner. I was proud of my calloused soles. I could sprint that sharp, white, hot gravel all…
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C. S. Lewis: On The Medieval Sky
You must go out on a starry night and walk about for half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old cosmology. Remember that you now have an absolute Up and Down. The Earth is really the centre, really the lowest place; movement to it from is downward movement. As a…
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G. K. Chesterton: “…the carpe diem religion…”
“…the carpe diem religion is not the religion of happy people, but of very unhappy people. Great joy does not gather the rosebuds while it may; its eyes are fixed on the immortal rose which Dante saw.”
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C.S. Lewis: “…Although the witch knew the deep magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know…
…her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before time dawned, she would have read a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s…
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John Ruskin: “…it is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy…
…and the two cannot be separated with impunity.”
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Mary Oliver: “Let me keep my mind on what matters…”
“…which is my work which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.”
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Isak Denison: excerpt from “Out Of Africa”, on stillness in the wild.
Out in the wild I had learned to be aware of abrupt movements. The creatures…shy and watchful…no domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. Civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it. The art of moving gently…