@RobertEllsberg @RobertEllsberg

Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.

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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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The wind blows where it will.
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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

Q & A with Sr. Jeanne Clark, peace activist who went to jail for nonviolent resistance

Sr. Jeanne Clark is a peace activist, the founder of Homecoming Farm and was a Pax Christi Long Island Peacemaker of the Year.

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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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Peter’s personalist philosophy, belief in community, voluntary poverty, work, hospitality, the works of mercy, nonviolence, integration of “cult, culture, and cultivation” (respect for the earth), recognition of Christ in the poor— all became foundation of CW and Dorothy’s life.
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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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Such a powerful Mothers Day Story. 🙏 via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2023/05/14/opini…

Opinion | A New Mother, an Old Mother, a Love Story (Gift Article)

We travel with our ghosts. Who better to lead us to what comes next?

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Unita Zelma Blackwell, who died May 13 2019. So glad to share her story in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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#Grateful to be receiving my canon-law licentiate today @CatholicUniv @CUACanonLaw! Gives me a happy excuse to dust off the ol' doctoral biretta, vintage 2016 (see chicagotribune.com/news/ct-c…).
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Congratulations, Dawn!
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via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2023/05/12/magaz…

The Most Disturbing Thing About Jordan Neely’s Killing (Gift Article)

It was all so calm and unhurried. Sometimes, somehow, the fear of violence shakes people more than violence itself.

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My dad reflecting on the parallels between the Cuban Missile Crisis and Ukraine, pondering the odds that nuclear weapons will be used again before he dies.
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On the other hand, making lists of movies he wants to see (or in the case of Butch Cassidy see one more time).
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
has he seen Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL? Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev?
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On the other hand, making lists of movies he wants to see (or in the case of Butch Cassidy see one more time).
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has he seen Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL? Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev?
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Good choices, but tonight it’s the Brothers Karamazov with Yul Brynner.
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Good choices, but tonight it’s the Brothers Karamazov with Yul Brynner.
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An advance peek at the cover of the anniversary edition of my first book. Coming out this fall with Crossroad. So glad to include icons by my friend Wm Hart McNichols!
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