The Family Barber
A person cannot multitask while performing it; instead, all else disappears, and only the person for whom one is caring in this physical way remains the focus for several minutes
The Ghost Cricket Orchestra
If we are willing to listen, we might be able to learn what we are listening for. Not just a deeper connection to our humanity, or a meditative appreciation of existence, as lovely and important as those things may be.
Lovely, Dark, and Deep
The one observation on which all the Brothers focused with most interest, though, was what I might describe as the words beyond words. These poems are not just about a stone in the road and snow falling on a dark evening ...
The Other Cancel Culture
Perhaps most importantly, however, we need to return to encouraging each other to keep commitments,
Cleaning an Empty Home
There is not a lot of time for sentimentality when you’re in the final week of madly preparing to list your empty, but very much “lived-in,” house
Places That Remember Themselves: The Erosion of Memory in an Unmoored...
There are still places that remember themselves. Whose inhabitants know them intimately and love them deeply.
It Wouldn’t Be Lent Without a Bar Jester Chronicle
anyone sharing my Germanic inclinations—pecca fortitor!—is likely to embark upon the challenge.
Learn This Lesson from the Fig Tree
He seems pleased that he’s protected me and mine. Or maybe ours.
Writing Exile and Reading Homeward
Here, then, is my homecoming of the imagination: to hold the past bright in memory, and to love also the saplings and the weeds of my exile.
