“One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is…
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The Gem at the Bar
“The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.” Dame Edith Sitwell We were at a restaurant in the city of Pittsburgh the other night, and I happened to glance over at the bar. A person sitting there caught my eye: an elderly woman reading a book, breaking her reading only…
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The Firecracker
“Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.” G.K. Chesterton I heard her laughter before I saw her. It floated above the night air of the Ohio Valley with its unabashed happiness, and joy. The laughter blew in the wind, and met my ears, like a song from the gods, speaking…
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Kitty, The Household Fairy
“There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. . .” G.K. Chesterton It happens quite frequently within the walls of a certain brick Colonial that a fairy-creature, known as Kitty, gets into a bit of mischief. There is torn…
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The Green Beard of a Giant
“You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.” Flannery O’Connor “All the optimism of the age had been false and disheartening for this reason, that it had always been trying to prove that we fit in to the world. The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world. I had…
