Hello— Glad you stopped by. I hope you’ll want to visit often, and let me hear from you. For me it has been all solace all the time lately. The book has consumed my life of late, and it has been quite fulfilling (and other things too). Funny thing, I’ve thought about this first blog entry since I began the project and I have a million ideas in my head, and if I addressed them all this blog would be as long as the book itself. So, I’ll keep this first post simple: … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2011
My Symphony
To live content with small means. To seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion. To be worthy not respectable, and wealthy not rich. To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars, birds, babes, and sages with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my … [Read more...]
Some days
You see clouds and think if you could just cross those peaks and find a soft place on the other side, you’d be okay. Ellen Wade Beals … [Read more...]
What I’m Reading for Solace
by Kathleen Kirk Congratulations to Ellen Beals on the release of Solace in So Many Words, her anthology of words of comfort. When she first conceived of the book, as a gathering of poems and prose pieces that might give solace to a country crushed and grieving after the events of 9/11, I was moved by her impulse and effort. In calling for work that respected a universal and ongoing need for solace, she knew her project was something that could evolve, as it has over … [Read more...]
A Glimpse of Solace
Arnie B. Kanter In Kenya, Amboselli is known for its elephants. Our host at Ol Kanjo, the small tented camp at which my wife, Carol, and I are staying, is Mike, an American who has lived with his wife, Judy, in Kenya for more than forty years. As we drive down the dirt road, Mike notices a family of elephants approaching. At first, there appear to be ten or fifteen elephants, but as the group approaches, it swells to thirty, then, forty. Carol and I sit in the open jeep … [Read more...]