Author: Tim

• David Wagoner: “Lost”

  Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost. Wherever you are is called here and you must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers “I have made this place around you. If you leave it you may come back again , saying “here”. “…

• “Post-modern” is just the mood when we realize the classic is gone, the “modern” doesn’t work, and nothing is left but the random.

• Dorothy Sayers: “…the neglect of dogma is the curse of nearly all religious plays.”

• Polonius and Hamlet discuss justice.

  Polonius: My lord, I will use them according to their desert. Hamlet: God’s bodkin, man, much better…use every man after his desert, and who’d escape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity. (bold mine).

• Thomas Merton: “…pierced through the surface and got beyond the shadow and the disguise.”

  From Sri Lanka, on his pilgrimage to Asia, days before his death.

• Elizabeth Bishop: “Insomnia”

  The moon in the bureau mirror looks out a million miles (and perhaps with pride, at herself but she never, never smiles) Far and away beyond sleep, or perhaps she’s a daytime sleeper. By the universe deserted, she’d tell it to go to hell,and she’d find a body of water, or a mirror on which…

• It is human attention – settled, sustained attention- that finds sophia in all things.

• Josef Pieper: Leisure cannot be found when sought as a means to any end.

  — from “Leisure the Basis Of Culture”

• Josef Peiper: “In worship, a store of superfluous wealth is squandered.” 

  — from “Leisure the Basis Of Culture”

• Josef Pieper: “…there is no such thing as a festival without Gods…” 

  — “Leisure the Basis Of Culture”