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“Is there not a movie called Possum Day?” What’s it about? “It’s about a possum or some little creature who comes out.”
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Cyprian Davis OSB, pioneer historian of Black Catholics in America died May 18 2015. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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Scraps of poetry, remembered over a lifetime, float to the surface: Auden, Jeffers, Neruda, Yeats, Shakespeare: “I am dying, Egypt, dying; only
I here importune death awhile, until
Of many thousand kisses the poor last
I lay up thy lips.” And Edna st Millay:
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“Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.”
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Watching his favorite movie— which he has seen a dozen times, including the night the Pentagon Papers were published. “I met Paul Newman once. He offered me a beer and when I declined I had the sense he had no more use for me.”
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An interview with Sr. Jeanne Clark about her new book with @Orbisbooks "All the Way In." globalsistersreport.org/node… via @sistersreport
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For the 90th anniversary of the Catholic Worker, titles by Dorothy Day are 25% off. See OrbisBooks.com
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I sang some of my dad’s favorite songs by Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. He asked to hold the guitar. “When I was facing prison for the Pentagon Papers I thought maybe I would learn to play the guitar. But I wondered— do they let you have guitars in prison?”
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Peter Maurin, the French peasant-philosopher who inspired Dorothy Day to start the Catholic Worker, died May 15 1949. My reflection from @GiveUsThisDayLP
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BREAKING NEWS: Pope Francis has issued a blessing on the 650th anniversary of the revelations of Julian of Norwich, the 14th-century English mystic. This announcement was read today from the pulpits of the Anglican and Catholic cathedrals in Norwich.
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My interview about Julian with author Veronica Mary Rolf. "Julian's Gospel." @OrbisBooks piped.video/watch?v=vb4TbTNe…
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