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THE CREATIVE LIFE
LET’S ZOOM
Speaking of echoing that yes, here’s a thought: would anyone be interested in a zoom gathering? Just a kind of get-together and check-in during these challenging quarantine times. I myself have historically been VEHEMENTLY opposed to all forms of online video communication and until two weeks ago had never once in my life Skyped or […]
“POOR CLARE”: A PLAY BY CHIARA ATIK
Here’s how this week’s arts and culture column begins: I was scheduled to attend the performance of the play described below on Sunday, March 13. But like just about everything else in these uncertain times the opening has been postponed and the show was cancelled. Nonetheless, the theater says the set is up and everything’s […]
EVEN THE DARK: POEMS BY LESLIE WILLIAMS
Award-winning poet Leslie Williams grew up in North Carolina, lived and worked in Washington D.C., Seattle, and Charlottesville (where she earned a grad degree in English), got married, moved to Chicago, had a son, moved back to DC, had another son, and moved to Boston area where she and her family have been for fifteen […]
ECHO THAT YES
“Our Lady said yes. She said yes for us all. It was as if the human race were a little dark house, without light or air, locked and latched. The wind of the Spirit had beaten on the door, rattled the windows, tapped on the dark glass with the tiny hands of flowers, flung golden […]
AWAKE O YE SLEEPERS
In shaky economic times I must say, I feel right at home. Right away I descend into bunker mentality mode. In fact, having grown up one of eight in a blue-collar home–our father was a bricklayer–I’m more or less always ready for a disaster. I have enough semolina, bulgur, wheat berries, polenta, brown rice, pearl […]
ANGELA HEWITT PLAYS BACH
Here’s how this week’s arts and culture piece begins. Clearly the event took place pre-quarantine. Amazing how quickly things change! People think Angelenos are “laid back,” but the fact is a simple trip to a music concert requires nerves of steel, an encyclopedic memory for geographical layout, and a longing for transcendence that needs to […]
LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
Fun times! Have you noticed that suddenly, overnight, everyone is an epidemiologist? People you’ve known for decades suddenly have a brother-in-law, a very good friend, or a sister (always unnamed, and whom you’ve never once heard mentioned before) who just happens to be an infectious disease specialist and THEY say… Suddenly everyone’s an oligarch: People […]
OUR POOR DISTRACTED HEARTS
“God alone knows what is in man. No one knows what really to make of himself in his poor distracted heart; whether his real self lives in his longing for a greater love of God, or in his unacknowledged and unrepentant grumbling at the immeasurable demands of his love.” –Father Karl Rahner
THE TEMPTATION IN THE DESERT: MAN ON WIRE AND FREE SOLO
Here’s how this week’s arts and culture column begins: “Then the devil took him to the holy city, and made him stand on the parapet of the temple, and said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written: He will command his angels concerning you/and with their […]
THE FACE OF LOVE CAN BE UGLY AS WELL AS BEAUTIFUL
Roslyn Barnes was a Catholic convert. She dedicated her 1962 Masters’ thesis, a comparison of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Teilhard de Chardin, to her friend, Flannery O’Connor. In Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O’Connor and Friends, Barnes writes from Chile in August, 1964, to Fr. James McCown: “I am a […]
GOOD THINGS OUT OF NAZARETH
The stock market is melting down, coronavirus is spreading its tentacles, we have in our day “no prince, prophet, or leader, no burnt offering, sacrifice, oblation, or incense, no place to offer first fruits, to find favor with you”…(Daniel 3:38). Yesterday morning on my way to Mass I pulled over to the curb in front of the […]
ALEXANDER GIRARD AT THE PALM SPRINGS MUSEUM
Here’s how this week’s arts and culture column begins: Through March 1, the Palm Springs Museum is featuring “A Designer’s Universe,” an exhibit based on the multi-talented twentieth-century artist Alexander Girard (1907-1993). As the Museum points out: “Alexander Girard (1907–1993 in Santa Fe) was one of the most important and prolific designers of the 20th century. He […]
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