My privacy is my shield, but it can also be a lonely moat that keeps me away from solace. Helen Schulman in "Where You Go, I Will Follow" Real Simple, February 2014. … [Read more...]
Slice of Solace: Carl Sandburg “At a Window”
I can image Carl Sandburg looking out the window at the treetops and being inspired to write this poem. It is from the “Fogs and Fires” section of his Chicago Poems. Like much of Carl Sandburg’s works, this poem is in the public domain. There’s lot of his work available on the Internet; I got this from a site devoted to of all his poems from this book. At the site for the Academy of American Poets, you can find more by Carl Sandburg. And if you’re a Chicagoan, particularly a … [Read more...]
Slice of Solace: Albert Camus
Autumn flowers © Ellen Wade Beals, 2013 "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." Albert Camus (Thanks to Goodreads for helping me find this quote!) … [Read more...]
Slice of Solace: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish
Though it was not on the Open House Chicago tour, Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary Parish was near the restaurant we went to in River North so we stopped in. There was a place to pray to St. Peregrine, of the Order of the Servants of Mary, who is the Patron Saint of Cancer Patients (something I had not known). I think these statues are lovely and sweet. … [Read more...]
Slice of Solace: Pico Iyer
"Occasionally, it's true, I'll meet someone--call him myself--who makes the same mistake again and again, heedless of what friends and sense tell him, unable even to listen to himself. Then he crashes his car, or suffers a heart attack, and suddenly calamity works on him like an alarm clock; by packing a punch that no gentler means can summon, suffering breaks him open and moves him to change his ways." by Pico Iyer from "The Value of Suffering," which appeared in The New … [Read more...]
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