Henry James
by June Robertson Beisch”
Poor Mr. James,” Virginia Woolf once said:
“He never quite met the right people.”
Poor James. He never quite met the
children of light and so he had to invent them.
Then, when people said: No one is like that.
Your books are not reality, he replied:
So much the worse for reality.
He described himself as “slow to conclude,
orotund, a slow-moving creature, circling his rooms
slowly masticating his food.”
Once, when a nephew asked his advice
on how to live, he searched his mind.
Number One, be kind, he said.
Number Two, be kind and
Number Three, be kind.
“Henry James” by June Beisch, from Fatherless Woman. © Cape Cod Literary Press, 2004.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
“According to the Bible, we do not find set before us, pre-packaged, the life we are to live. No! We have to decide it all the time, according to the reality that comes. God invites us to evaluate and choose: He created us free and wants us to exercise our freedom. Therefore, discerning is demanding.”
Pope Francis
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 