All Out of Still
A few months ago a certain degree of unspectacular life adversity leaned over to me and whispered: "What if you stop for a while? You were obliged off the road anyhow by the plague. Why not go the rest of the way there, and choose stillness?"
Clever fellow.
Years ago I remember coming across some stout advice...
Look
I've for the most part been sitting down, these last sixteen months. I've been writing a book, which partly explains it. I'm hardly going anywhere. No plan I make survives the news. All that sitting makes for numbness, here and there, now and then. Occasionally I try to mobilize. Maybe something comes in that's...
Call/Response
Listen: Stranger Days
What is this?
That's something to think about, in the leisure hours imposed upon you now.
I've got a suggestion: This is a God. Not 'from God', or 'of God', or 'by God'.
It's more direct. INFESTANS. The God of now.
Strange days - and we have lots of them now - need strange thinking, strange words. A...