Thoughts for the day
Michael Gallagher “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”– Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect…
An additional note on prayer
This poem captures a lot of what I was stumbling about in an earlier post trying to explain. Prayer is like the following for me; it leads me places I…
Digital text madness
The following is a bit from englishchosun.com, the English version of the Korean newspaper the Chosun Ilbo. It made me pause trying to work out the sheer logistics of these…
Ohio temptresses and Korean princes
This affirms it. Ohio women are temptresses and they cannot be trusted. At least if you are a Korean prince at the turn of the last century. Apparently, Ohio figures…
Sleeping on a bus outside of Seoul
When you sleep, you smileEndless miles,returning from an exploration of a southern satellite. Your red scarf, my bleeding heart,Never in the background or that far apart. You smile when you…
Restlessness and prayer
I have been rereading a little bit of Kahlil Gibran recently (incidentally a nice site for this is http://leb.net/~mira/) and have been moved by the real simplicity of his verse.…
Poems from Brother Anthony
To slowly reacclimate to the working week after an extended weekend in Ohio with family, I give you a poem from Brother Anthony of Taize. http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/PEPoems.htm TranceStrewn among the starsafterthe…