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Geoff Wood reflection for September 7, 2014

Posted on September 3, 2014 by srdianne

The Golden Age           I have written before about the children Edward, Selina, Harold, Charlotte and their narrator brother – who fill the stories in Kenneth Grahame’s 1895 The Golden Age.  In his Prologue the narrator describes them as very … Continue reading →

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Reflection for August 27, 2014

Posted on August 27, 2014 by srdianne

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. Pierre Teihard de Chardin

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Reflection for August 20, 2014

Posted on August 21, 2014 by srdianne

I said to my soul, Be still and let the darkness come upon you which will be the darkness of God.” T.S. Eliot

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Geoff Wood Reflection for August 24, 2014

Posted on August 20, 2014 by srdianne

  There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, / . . . To me did seem / Apparelled in celestial light, / . . .  It is not now as it hath been of yore;             George Bowling … Continue reading →

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Reflection for August 13, 2014

Posted on August 14, 2014 by srdianne

Amazing Peace Thunder rumbles in the mountain passes And lightening rattles the eaves of the houses. Floodwaters await in our avenues. Snow falls upon snow, falls upon snow to avalanche Our unprotected villages. The sky slips low and gray and … Continue reading →

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Geoff Wood Reflection for August 10, 2014

Posted on August 11, 2014 by srdianne

“Lord, . . . bid me come to you upon the waters.”             In Henry James’s novel Portrait of a Lady Isabel Archer, an American girl of the 1880’s, was fortunate to have a wealthy aunt to take her under … Continue reading →

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Reflection for August 6, 2014

Posted on August 7, 2014 by srdianne

Our goal should be to live in radical amazement…get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.  Everything is phenomenal.  To be spiritual is to be amazed. Rabbi Abraham Heschel The … Continue reading →

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Reflection for July 30, 2014

Posted on August 7, 2014 by srdianne

Words for Quiet Moments “We must be meek and loving, even toward ourselves, especially toward ourselves.” Thomas Merton “Finish every day and be done with it.  You have done what you could.  Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, … Continue reading →

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Geoff Wood Reflection for August 3, 2014

Posted on August 5, 2014 by srdianne

Temples of the Holy Ghost             The child was in for a long weekend.  Two older cousins had come to stay on a brief leave from their convent school.  They arrived in their brown convent uniforms but were no sooner … Continue reading →

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Geoff Wood for July 27, 2014

Posted on July 29, 2014 by srdianne

The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft / against the inside knee was leveled firmly . . . /  By God, the old man could handle a spade.  (From the poem by Seamus Heaney: Digging)             I have … Continue reading →

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