Safeguarding

The motive of the solitary has a strong parallel to the objective of the hermit (or monk) described by John Cassian in one of his Conferences. One of the first ...

Motive

What are we to make of the death poem of Chogo, an eighteenth-century Japanese poet? I long for people —Then again I loath them:end of autumn. Because it ...

Toothache

written about 3 a.m. At the moment I want to change half of the old saying that “Man proposes, God disposes” and say “pain disposes.” Pa...

Fog

Fog that descends with night has always seemed of a character different from the fog of dawn. They are the same to a meteorologist but the metaphors are distinc...