Dear Plato, Beauty is the beginning… Sometimes, I wonder about beauty. Beauty must be what God is, what heaven will be to our senses. Different people perceive beauty differently, but for me, the most profound occurs in chiaroscuro–the interplay of shadow and light. I thrill at the moment dissonance blooms into harmony. Chills whisper down…
Tag: Prose
Fat Tuesday and the Infamous Ash Wednesday-Thursday
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. If by God we mean a very particular cake that once gave off a delectable aroma and bestowed a splash of bright, beautiful, and terribly artificial color on a muted winter landscape, then yes, God is dead. And we three (oh, three, that…
Five-Finger Scales: “Counting Rhyme”
1. Sorrow is a legion of worn women with crepe skin and black shawls and brooms. The whispering of the straw scrapes the floor as they quietly shunt dust out the door, shake the crumbs from billowing tablecloths that churn and coil in the wind, held tight by gnarled fists. When they are finished with…
French Echoes
We had a Jam Club party at the end of the school year and watched Disney’s the Hunchback of Notre Dame. I’m reading it right now. Just made an idea web of the similarities and differences between Dumas and Hugo. Ernest Hemingway wrote a beautiful little collection of stories called A Moveable Feast about his…