Short Stories, and My Limited Experience Thereof

I’m just discovering the stories of Ray Bradbury.  What a fascinating mind. His imaginings are weird and textured. He saw the possibility for horror in everything from a twelve-year old boy crossing a ditch in the dark to a middle-aged man’s desire to put up a hot-dog stand on Mars. He lucidly illustrated, in one [...]

Read Full Post »

A New Link: Yudhie’s Heart-Beat

I’ve added a new link,  Heart Beat, to my blogroll. Yudhie, a young Indonesian Orthodox Christian, has been inspiring many of us lately with his honest relations of the events of his own life, a truly Christian life. I don’t wish to endanger his peace with undue praise, but thanks be to God, through this [...]

Read Full Post »

Update

I finally finished The Monk of Mount Athos. It is not the sort of book that it’s wise to gobble up at a sitting, though I could have done so as it is rather short. It’s more like the Gospel, that you can slowly absorb a few paragraphs at a time.
Needless to say, and no [...]

Read Full Post »

A’ Kempis and MacDonald: Something for Me and my Readers From a Couple of our Favorite Western Christians

Poetically this verse doesn’t really sing, does it? But the thoughts expressed, and the economy of words with which they are expressed, have been just what I needed this morning.
After Thomas Kempis
by George MacDonald

I.
Who follows Jesus shall not walk                                             Read the [...]

Read Full Post »

Today I’m Full of Wonderings

Today I wonder:
Why is my scanner not working?
Will I ever finish the plays and stories I’ve started? Do I really have it in me to be a writer or am I just a dilettante?

What is the next step to getting the mold smell out of that one area of my carpet?
Should I give up writing [...]

Read Full Post »

Quiet In the Evening, and a Memory of Field Corn

The night in its darkness communicates with my darkened room by way of french doors, through which pass cool air and a singular evening scent. It makes me think of adventures. I’ve just spent a long time playing with Scottie and Johnnie on our bed – it’s really as much the family trampoline as much [...]

Read Full Post »