Cate wrote:God always snorts when he tries hard not to laugh.

Perfect

Well despite the landscape it doesn't sound like you live in a desert at all ;-) I would love to be the kind of person who can recognize constellations other than the dippers, to name or even notice ala Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Though I love Annie Dillard and in theory the practice of noticing is oh...

Thanks, guys : ) I get a pull for the ocean, too; I grew up on the Chesapeake Bay. I'm reading a book right now called The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality by Belden Lane. He writes about a practice he does wherein he lies in a sleeping bag in his backyard betw...

Jason Molina died on Saturday. He was, more or less (more, really), Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. The Secretly Canadian website (http://www.secretlycanadian.com/) lists the cause of death as natural causes, but you could also call it alcoholism; he was 39. Recently a friend from the Leonard ...

LC & UHTC's honoring her by making her part of the service is a beautiful and most thoughtful farewell. How right to see her photo on the table, for Leonard to honor her there. I never knew Arlene but saw her from a distance once or twice. She was loved here- this community of fans can love well so...

It's such a strangely delicious experience to like something that you also hate, you know? The main character was so good and so real and totally reprehensible. I also wish it had ended earlier, but not at the dream 30 years on- that made me want to puke. I'm not a fan of happy endings (call me a si...

in our small garden the heart may break completely the broken heart may gather up this desert soil enough to send down tentative roots that the wind might undo or a spring snow threaten the broken heart may be groundless in its search for God or love or mercy and this groundlessness may be the the o...

12th of March I cannot. The days dry up in Indian summer March. It tops thirty degrees nine days straight. Pigeons coo, the sun falls in and I cannot. So many men hold the reins, so many stronger than me. I am but a speck. I sip my tea. Smile weakly at a man on tv. And insist, I cannot. Tonight I'l...

Cate wrote:I agree with Mat's Wow I.F.

mat james wrote:"I wasn't brave enough. And I wasn't kind enough."

wow!

Thirded.

p.s. I'm really enjoying being a witness to this thread : )

Beautiful Losers been my favorite book for 17 years.

Hi Howard. When I began participating in the online conversation about Leonard I was around your age, but it's been years and I'm 31 now. Imagine- 14 years old and your dear mom presents to you Beautiful Losers as required reading And you take off with it like nothing else.

Thank you for that, Cate. I've read that poem a hundred times but never listened because I wasn't married then. It's got me thinking, what else is waiting for me in the archives? I started reading Beautiful Losers again last night, after not having recognized a quote from it in Dennis Lee's Savage F...

I kind of lost my hard-on for this thread. The spirit left me, what can I say? I can say I left the spirit, which is truer. For me I think the first verses sound like angels (voice of god) calling the man home – come bring your pain and imperfections, come and pray with us and be naked/unhidden and ...

I've wanted to see that forever. Thank you!

Thank you, Diane... it was a typo, and it totally pains me.

I love that other people know the place, but not too many : )