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Postcards From the Land of Contemplation
by Vermeer
Reading:
Lilith by George MacDonald
Standing by Words by Wendell Berry
Sacred Legacy by Myrna Grant
In my ears:
North and South Soundtrack by Martin Phipps
Night as Bright as Day Joel Clarkson (yep, my brother!)
Rich Mullins
There's a wideness in God's mercy,
I cannot find in my own
And he keeps his fire burning
To melt this heart of stone,
Keeps me aching, with a yearning,
Keeps me glad to have been caught,
In the reckless, raging fury,
That they call the love of God.C.S. Lewis
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours.Madeleine L’Engle
A great painting, or symphony, or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of creation behind the universe.Charles Van Sandwyk
Each time pen goes to paper, the general idea is to try to make the most beautiful book in the world. I’ve failed every time, but it’s still the impetus.Wendell Berry
Imagine the dead waking, dazed, into a shadowless light in which they know themselves all together for the first time. It is a light that is merciless until they can accept its mercy... In it, they are loved completely, even as they have been, and so are changed into what they could not have been, but what, if they could have imagined it, they would have wished to be.Loreena McKennit
I heard an old voice say,
Don't go far from the land,
The seasons have their way,
No mortal can understand...J.R.R. Tolkien
Eucatastrophe is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur. It does not deny the existence of catastrophe, of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance; it denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat and in so far is evangelium, giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world poignant as grief.George MacDonald
Be sure that if you go on inquiring, you will find the truth- enough of it to keep you alive and wishing for more, and that is enough for us at a time.Leif Enger
I breathe deeply and certainty enters into me like light, like a piece of science, and curious music seems to hum inside my fingers. Is there a single person on whom I can press my belief? No sir. All I can do is say, here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and I'm going back. Make of it what you will.Elizabeth Goudge
Faithful... supposed that the harder one's life is the more desperate must be the struggle to find out how to be happy, and the more likely to be successful.G.K. Chesterton
He is a sane man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.George Eliot
We are all imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.o world i cannot get thee close enough
4 Comments
May 26, 2009 at 4:57 am
Sarah,
I was at the Whole Heart Moms conference in Orange County in February. Are you still doing the book tour this summer? I live in San Luis Obispo, Ca and would love to put you up, feed you, and I have a few places for you to talk. I also have some contacts in Santa Barbara too. And I gave you an Aunt Dimity book… If you can remember back that far…
Laura
June 4, 2009 at 1:57 am
Hi Sarah!
I was also writing to ask on the status of your book tour.. I saw the cover of your book on cbd.com! Very exciting, congratulations!
I met you in Irvine with my friend, Lisa. We’d love to have you come to San Diego.
Blessings,
Jennie
June 9, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Hi there! The book is coming along well, but the tour is delayed due to a later publication date. Sooo, at the moment, I don’t think I will be coming to CA for a tour until February, just after the WH Mom’s conference out there. If you would be interested in having me then, I’d be delighted to come. Just email me: itinerantidealist@gmail.com. Thanks!
June 12, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Hello, Sarah! I’m feeling very ashamed of myself that it’s been a year -literally! – since I’ve last commented! I tagged you on the glorious subject of books….but it was a while ago. Please forgive me for my lapse in dropping you a note on your blog, but I’m utterly delighted to hear your exciting news – college, and your book!
*smiles* I always think, especially now, re-reading your more recent posts, how much we would get along if we ever had the pleasure of meeting in real life when I think of all the loves we share: books, beauty, music (Middle Earth, to be exact!
), coffee shops, writing, England and food! 
I hear also that your family and Brenda’s (Coffee, Tea, Books and Me) have met/know each other in real life…what a treat!
Here’s wishing you best in whatever God holds for you! P.S. Are you and your mom going to be speaking at anymore homeschooling confrences this year? I believe there’s one in Texas coming up that lists you all as a vendor; my mom and I are so excited!
Cheerfully,
Grace