Recently I stayed at the Joshua Tree cabin of my friends from the Echo Park Film Center. There are three elements in the desert. Fire. Water. Cell reception. In Wood of the Cradle, Wood of the Cross, Caryll Houselander, lover of traumatized children and one of my most treasured spiritual companions, observes: “It is the […]
THE RESURRECTION
JANET M. KING: OCTOBER 11, 1927-SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
Her patience at the airfield, in this world of machines and offices that is beyond her, waiting without a word, as old women have for millennia all over the world, waiting for the world to pass. And then very small, a bit broken, on the immense ground, toward the howling monsters, holding her well-combed hair […]