and maybe you should too… not forcing you, though.
Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year. by Carlo Levi. Levi, Carlo. Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year. Ferrar, Straus & Giroux, New York. 1947. Translated by Frances Frenaye. With Foreward by Carlo Levi, 1963. Introduction copyright, 2006 by Mark Rotella. I have fallen in love with the beautiful descriptive… Continue reading Civilization and the South… of Italy _Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year_ by Carlo Levi
A Sand County Almanac was published in 1948. It took Aldo Leopold ten years to write, which says something about his particular care for such things. In part it is written out of his experience living along the Wisconsin River in what was referred to as The Shack, by the Leopold family. Leopold purchased land… Continue reading A Voice For the Wilderness: Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac
Robert D. Richardson Jr.'s, Thoreau: A Life of the Mind (1987), is an thoroughly researched and amazingly rich biography of the man who, for many, is mainly known as living a semi-solitary two years on property owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walden pond, and offering up, as a product of this living experiment, the… Continue reading On Thoreau and His Reading
"They say, ninety-one years old, it can't be helped. Almost they don't care, he's so old." These words appear on the first page of Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells. They are the words of Hiroko, Pico Iyer's wife, who calls him from Japan to tell him her father is dying. When we think… Continue reading A Meditation on Dying — Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells by Pico Iyer
I often find myself struggling to understand what love is, and how I can love so that I might live fully what Christ told us was the greatest commandment, to love God with all our heart and to love our neighbor like ourselves. How do we show love to one another? St. Paul’s First Letter… Continue reading The Love of Our Neighbor
