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October 1991Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have of trying to change others.
Renegade Priest
An Interview With Matthew Fox
We have to get back to that sense of raw reverence. And by reverence I don’t mean this bourgeois thing of nodding your head and being pious. Reverence comes from the word to revere, which means to stand in awe. The Bible has been mistranslated; where we read that wisdom begins with fear of the Lord, it should read awe. Awe is the beginning of wisdom.
August 1991Sunbeams
July 1991It is not your obligation to complete your work, but you are not at liberty to quit.
Sunbeams
June 1991Illness is the most heeded of doctors. To goodness and wisdom we make only promises; pain we obey.
Instrument Of The Immortals
Miss Eva Hodges, my piano teacher for eight years, now deceased, would be gratified to learn that I bought the Steinway. She’d be proud of me.
March 1991Heart Too Big
“The Fat Fucker showed up,” he said, mopping his plate with a biscuit. Robert nodded, acknowledging that he knew who Edsel was talking about, but wasn’t ready to speak himself until he’d concluded a particularly sensual moment with Ellen’s cooking.
February 1991The Color Of Light
Through rain and sun and fog, through snows that melted before he was done with them, in winds that screamed at him, the painter stamped and shouted and reached out with his brush to catch the light before it was gone.
February 1991
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