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               “…to make conversation, to share a joke, to perform mutual acts of kindness, to read together well-written books, to share in trifling and serious matters, to disagree though without animosity—just as a person debates with himself—and in the very rarity of disagreement to find the salt of normal harmony, to teach each other something […]

“…free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion.”—Saint Augustine, Confessions _____                “And what have you learned?” Annie was asked.                    Annie listened, staring out from veranda upon street of colors, culture, and charm—all new, enchanting, to her.  She had wanted to go, to see and learn, and so they went […]

          “There are more I want to write,” he told.           “Then write,” she answered.  Sensing hesitation, unwanted silence after but unreadiness to say, she continued in erasure of the pause.  “Don’t ask, and don’t explain.  Just write.  It’s your art, your adventure, your own experience in creation—make it.  Don’t conform and hide to fit […]

               “Jesus’ transfiguration was an experience of his divinity shining through his humanity.  In that brilliance, Peter, James, and John, saw more clearly the fullness of who Jesus was.  It was beyond anything they had seen or experienced before.  This transfiguration took their breath away.  Though they might not have been ready to receive this […]

               In amber of evening light, James witnessed Annie in creation.  Silent in chair, he observed as Annie composed that which appeared to her in silence and thought-openness to inspirations.                 Her hand moved intermittent, and he watched through thought-pauses and after-bursts of pen over open page; observing details and the way she looked and […]