Proust Read-Along: The Swann and Gatsby Foil
“He knew perfectly well as a general truth that human life is full of contrasts…” Swann’s Way, P. 510 While …
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Sign of Spring: Melting Snow
These are photos for Saturday Snapshot April 27. Snow has mostly melted now, but there are still remnants of winter. …
Proust Read-Along: Swann’s Way Part One, Combray
Reading these first 264 pages of Proust conjures up some of my own memories… I was sitting in a graduate …
Saturday Snapshot April 13: Bohemian Waxwings in Flight, Defying Grey
I had the chance to see the elusive Bohemian Waxwings converge in the past weeks. Now they are gone. From …
Roger Ebert, A Close Encounter
In memory of Roger Ebert, I will recount an unforgettable experience I had two years ago. I took the following …
Just another Easter thought
This Luci Shaw poem was read out in the Tenebrae service I attended on Good Friday. *** Judas, Peter because …
Saturday Snapshot March 30: Tenebrae
Tenebrae is Latin for shadows. I was in a Tenebrae Good Friday service yesterday, a symbolic visualization of the Easter …
Bonhoeffer Read-Along Part 2: Ch. 19 – 31
I’ve read some of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s writing years ago, but knew close to nothing about the life of this highly …
A Thought for Valentine’s
Beginning this year, I started subscribing to a daily piece of meditation from The Henri Nouwen Society. Here’s the one …
Saturday Snapshot Feb. 9: Flying
I only started birdwatching in September last year. In these short few months I’ve come to discover the three levels …
The Girl In the Cafe (2005): The Hunger for Connection
February is the month that raves about love. It’s also Awards Season, culminating with the Oscars. With all the competing …
Saturday Snapshot January 19
Winter in snow country. Here are some photos I took while trying out my new camera, a Nikon D5100. No …
