An Embarrassment by Wendell Berry
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Seth Wieck | March 17, 2014
“Do you want to ask the blessing?” “No. If you do, go ahead.” He went ahead: his prayer dressed up in Sunday clothes rose a few feet and dropped with a soft thump. If a lonely soul did ever cry out in company its true outcry to God, it would be as though at a […]
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“The Years That Walk Between”
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Seth Wieck | March 6, 2014
etr-gu: Ash Wednesday, and I am reading Eliot’s “Ash Wednesday” again. Isn’t this what rituals do, what rituals are for? Yes and yes. When it comes to re-reading, they let us see a familiar work with a fresh eye, or let us see ourselves with a fresh eye through reference to a work that hasn’t […]
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Seth Wieck | March 6, 2014
For today, Ash Wednesday: “God Help Me!” by Ni Ketut Ayu Sri Wardani. Oil on canvas: ow.ly/i/4NJHU
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