SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH, 2023
“Witnessing does not just involve the mind and saying something, the concepts. No. It involves everything, mind, heart, hands, everything, the three languages of the person: the language of thought, the language of affection, and the language of work. One cannot evangelize only with the mind or only with the heart or only with the hands. Everything is involved. Accepting God’s love is more difficult because we always want to be in the centre, we want to be protagonists, we are more inclined to do than to let ourselves be moulded, to speak than to listen. But, if what we do comes first, we will still be the protagonists. Instead, the proclamation must give primacy to God: the first place to God, and to give to others the opportunity to welcome Him, to realize that He is near. And me in the background.”
Pope Francis
On writing, he says: “Either you want to tell a story or you don’t. Do you want to draw attention to yourself and your own writing and your beautiful style or do you want to be invisible and let the story and the characters take over for the reader. That’s what it comes down to for me. What comes into it with crime is just conflicts. I like conflict in any kind of popular art. There is no greater conflict than life versus death, so there it is. I’m not that interested in the crime aspect of my books. I am interested in the characters.”
George Pelecanos The Night Gardener
The Idea of Living
by Joyce Sutphen
It has its attractions,
chiefly visual: all those
shapes and lines, hunk
s
of color and light (the way
the gold light falls across
the lawn in early summer,
the iridescent blue floating
on the lake at sunset),
and being alive seems
to be a necessity if you want
to sit in the sun or rub your
toes in the sand at the beach.
You need to be breathing
in order to eat paella and
drink sangria, and making love
is quite impossible without
a body, unless you are one
of those, given – like gold –
to spin in airy thinness forever.
“The Idea of Living” by Joyce Sutphen from Modern Love & Other Myths. © Red Dragonfly Press,
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