You have written two of the most moving essays I've read and are climbing ever higher into the realms of beauty, sorrow, hope, memory, fear, wisdom-.you're like the Lark Ascending, the ascending violin burning with a holy light of the Brahms concerto. The voice of the very Earth itself, lent you to express it's hopes and counsel for us all. Extravagant praise? Not so.
OH! Michael, my writer feathers are all fluffed up. Flabbergasted is the word that comes to mind on reading your generous and kind and lyrical comments. From you, a beautiful writer yourself, it is high high praise. I am prepared to argue that it is extravagant, but instead I will say I am deeply grateful for your generosity and kindness!!
I worried it might be embarrassing, so feel free to delete it! But I still think it true. In any case the waters keep pouring over the.lip of the falls and all this scarcity and extravagance disappear from memory.
You nailed it! You had me chuckling and then weeping! For such innocence lost in us and in our grandchildren. The Christ Child did not grow up to be anything like Santa Claus, but more like Dylan Thomas in passion and eloquence and, like him, dying all too young for proclaiming a gospel of justice, radical hospitality, and restitution; the Rebel Jesus of Jackson Browne’s little-known Christmas Carol. Thank you!
I implore you to eschew “mankind” -- it has never been inclusive, and we women are as much at fault as the men in our planet’s destruction. I’m not looking for a “manly self” within for solutions but my deepest human self, indeed, Jesus would have urged me/us to find the Christ within.
Ah! Thanks for the reminder that there are many ways to tell the story of Christ. And for your comments about the use of the word mankind. I need to find another word. Humans? Human beings? I will have to listen to the Rebel Jesus!! For certainly rebellion is called for now!
I agree with Michael though I can’t say it as eloquently. Thank you Kathleen for the good work you do to brighten our hearts and strengthen our efforts to save the planet.
You have written two of the most moving essays I've read and are climbing ever higher into the realms of beauty, sorrow, hope, memory, fear, wisdom-.you're like the Lark Ascending, the ascending violin burning with a holy light of the Brahms concerto. The voice of the very Earth itself, lent you to express it's hopes and counsel for us all. Extravagant praise? Not so.
OH! Michael, my writer feathers are all fluffed up. Flabbergasted is the word that comes to mind on reading your generous and kind and lyrical comments. From you, a beautiful writer yourself, it is high high praise. I am prepared to argue that it is extravagant, but instead I will say I am deeply grateful for your generosity and kindness!!
I worried it might be embarrassing, so feel free to delete it! But I still think it true. In any case the waters keep pouring over the.lip of the falls and all this scarcity and extravagance disappear from memory.
And yes, I wept too.
You nailed it! You had me chuckling and then weeping! For such innocence lost in us and in our grandchildren. The Christ Child did not grow up to be anything like Santa Claus, but more like Dylan Thomas in passion and eloquence and, like him, dying all too young for proclaiming a gospel of justice, radical hospitality, and restitution; the Rebel Jesus of Jackson Browne’s little-known Christmas Carol. Thank you!
I implore you to eschew “mankind” -- it has never been inclusive, and we women are as much at fault as the men in our planet’s destruction. I’m not looking for a “manly self” within for solutions but my deepest human self, indeed, Jesus would have urged me/us to find the Christ within.
Ah! Thanks for the reminder that there are many ways to tell the story of Christ. And for your comments about the use of the word mankind. I need to find another word. Humans? Human beings? I will have to listen to the Rebel Jesus!! For certainly rebellion is called for now!
I agree with Michael though I can’t say it as eloquently. Thank you Kathleen for the good work you do to brighten our hearts and strengthen our efforts to save the planet.