Brother Masseo tests the humility of Francis by asking "Why you?"
Saint Francis, on Humility
The Lives of the Heart
4 selections from Jane Hirshfield's book of poems, The Lives of the Heart, 1997
Red Bird Explains Himself
by Mary Oliver, final poem of the book Red Bird, 2008
red bird
everything is seen & heard
Red Bird
Agnes Martin drawing from 1964
Reading List 2018
Books read in 2018. Many were carried around as life-companions, Vollmann's dove book on violence, in particular.
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Caravaggio - 1608
The Brothers Karamazov
The voice of the Devil speaking to Ivan Karamazov during a late chapter in The Brothers K
The Funeral of Shelley
Percy Shelley drowns in 1822, at age 29. Painting by Louis Édouard Fournier, 1889.
