“We share with one another the creative work of living in the world.” Thomas Merton, Care of the Soul Merton creates and then extinguishes a paradox of life: the question of whether it is the contemplative life, the interior life, the life focused on self-development, or the life of action, of deeds, of community development, …
Grey February
“The Doldrums, my young friend, are where nothing ever happens and nothing ever changes.” Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth I often feel in the Doldrums in February. Juster’s description of the graying surroundings, the cool, uncomfortable but not offensive air, the muted environment, it all just hangs. A little bit like the Waiting Place in …