Friday, March 21, 2014

Every man got one poem, and when he stumbles on it he got to make it smaller and smaller and blacker and blacker and then it will finally convince.

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Ad Reinhardt, hanging black canvasses.  "Yet evidence suggests that Lax’s colour poems were not entirely uninfluenced by current e...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

The Mad Farmer Liberation Front (Practice Resurrection)

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Wendell Berry, Fall 1967, at a picnic with Merton, Gethsemani Photograph by Ralph Eugene Meatyard Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

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(I found this photo of Merton's hermitage on the web. No photographer was noted, but I suspect it might be Gordon Oyer) "I l...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Ruby Bridges

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) Extraordinary video and a truly holy little girl. Back to that book about the spiritual roots of protest. Merton says that the contemp...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Tom was grateful that we weren't pious … Gene photographed.

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Photograph of Thomas Merton by Ralph Eugene Meatyard Early winter 1967, reading from Notes for Cables to the Ace,  then called "...
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monasticism

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"Monasticism. I see more and more the danger of identifying the monastic vocation and spirit with a particular kind of monastic consci...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Pursuing the Spiritual Roots of Protest

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For three days in November of 1964 fourteen of America’s best known Christian peacemakers gathered, by invitation of their host Thomas Me...