Love this newsletter, Elizabeth. I think my Lenten practice might be reading your newsletter. :) But now you need to tell me more about why you don’t like Merton! 😉
Another wonderful Julian of Norwich book: Julian: A Contemplative Biography, by Amy Frykholm (a Christian Century editor!) -- https://bookshop.org/a/18812/9781612610979
Ah, this is so beautiful and rich, and of course funny too, with that reverent irreverence that always shines through. I hope you like May Sarton. At one time I owned almost every book she wrote (and had read them, too!), but a few years back I ill-advisedly gave them all away on freecycle. Or maybe not ill-advisedly; maybe they have turned out to be as important to someone else as they were to me. I first encountered her writing in the 1980s, in the very-first-ever Border's bookstore in the world ("Store 1" in Ann Arbor), way before that was a chain. I read some of her books while sitting on carpeted stairs in the store, and bought them one by one. I'm not sure I can even articulate the powerful effect they had on me; they were some kind of lifeline for sure. In the early 1990s, in Seattle, I got to see/hear Sarton read in some big auditorium, and she signed my copy of her little story THE FUR PERSON for my dad's cat. It was a tiny bit disillusioning to see her in person, as she was rather cranky and not too pleasant -- but at least I'd been forewarned by someone else about that, plus I still loved her writing. These days I have just one book -- her collected poems -- which I tracked down a copy of just recently because I just have to have it for the rest of my life. Check out "April in Maine."
Fantastic newsletter that I am enjoying reading and rereading, at least so far.....! Keep up the wonderful writing, it really draws me in and makes me think deeper. Not sure if you have read any of John Dominic Crossan's books, I have read several and really enjoy them. I read his "The Last Week" during Holy Week).
Beautiful! Thank you for shoveling alongside me. I'm so excited about this newsletter -- and especially having it in time for Lent!
Love this newsletter, Elizabeth. I think my Lenten practice might be reading your newsletter. :) But now you need to tell me more about why you don’t like Merton! 😉
Another wonderful Julian of Norwich book: Julian: A Contemplative Biography, by Amy Frykholm (a Christian Century editor!) -- https://bookshop.org/a/18812/9781612610979
Ah, this is so beautiful and rich, and of course funny too, with that reverent irreverence that always shines through. I hope you like May Sarton. At one time I owned almost every book she wrote (and had read them, too!), but a few years back I ill-advisedly gave them all away on freecycle. Or maybe not ill-advisedly; maybe they have turned out to be as important to someone else as they were to me. I first encountered her writing in the 1980s, in the very-first-ever Border's bookstore in the world ("Store 1" in Ann Arbor), way before that was a chain. I read some of her books while sitting on carpeted stairs in the store, and bought them one by one. I'm not sure I can even articulate the powerful effect they had on me; they were some kind of lifeline for sure. In the early 1990s, in Seattle, I got to see/hear Sarton read in some big auditorium, and she signed my copy of her little story THE FUR PERSON for my dad's cat. It was a tiny bit disillusioning to see her in person, as she was rather cranky and not too pleasant -- but at least I'd been forewarned by someone else about that, plus I still loved her writing. These days I have just one book -- her collected poems -- which I tracked down a copy of just recently because I just have to have it for the rest of my life. Check out "April in Maine."
Fantastic newsletter that I am enjoying reading and rereading, at least so far.....! Keep up the wonderful writing, it really draws me in and makes me think deeper. Not sure if you have read any of John Dominic Crossan's books, I have read several and really enjoy them. I read his "The Last Week" during Holy Week).