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A Story More Durable Than Flesh and Stone
Wednesday May 23, 2012
Yom Rishon (l’Shabbat): the first day toward the coming Shabbat: Sunday on the Gregorian calendar. And the psalmist asks, “Who may ascend the mountain of Y-H-V-H?” And the psalmist asks, “Who may rise in God’s sanctuary?” Yom Sheni (l’Shabbat): the second day toward the coming Shabbat: Monday on the Western calendar. And the psalmist says, “In your temple, God, we meditate upon your kindness....
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Good Letters is Moving
Tuesday May 22, 2012
A little more than four years and 1100 posts since this blog made its debut, Good Letters is moving. Tomorrow you will find us in a new venue, Patheos.com. To put it simply, the reason for the move is Good Letter’s success. Our readership has grown steadily and we wanted to take advantage of an opportunity to get the blog in front of an even larger audience. That's what will happen at Patheos....
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Telemachus to Odysseus
Monday May 21, 2012
When my mother turned seventy a year and a half ago, the occasion coincided with my rotation in the Good Letters blog. My post to mark the milestone was titled "Telemachus to Penelope," the title of a poem I had written for my mother in the wake of her divorce from my father after thirty-three years of marriage. My poem, inspired by Joseph Brodsky’s “Odysseus to Telemachus” and written soon after....
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To Run and Not Grow Weary, Part Two
Friday May 18, 2012
Maybe it was instinct that sent me back to relive the 1924 Olympic Games. In Part One of this reflection, you found me despairing, feeling a sudden collapse of my lifelong will to write. Slumped on the couch, I was watching, of all things, Chariots of Fire. As a child, I loved this movie. But it wasn’t until college that I saw how it stands in stark contrast to so much evangelical entertainment, how it avoids....
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To Run and Not Grow Weary – Part One
Thursday May 17, 2012
So, why Chariots of Fire? Why is that what I chose for tonight’s movie? Netflix is recommending all kinds of recent, highly rated titles. Why revisit this old DVD? It happened like this: Two hours earlier, I’d taken the car, planning to drive north to a waterfront park to work on my novel. I planned to walk along the beach and watch the sun’s long surrender while ideas filled my head. Then I’d veer into the nearest café....
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