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A Journey Called by My Soul

Creating a Book of Hours

“Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous laws”: Psalm 119:164

The writer of wonders Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees, and other riches, both fiction and non-fiction) once offered a teaching on the ancient tradition of praying MORE

Shakespeare Moments: Recognizing Truth

One thing Shakespeare has in common with comic book characters: at big moments of realization, a light bulb seems to go on over the person’s head. On the stage this takes place more subtly, light bulbs being singularly lacking in Shakespeare’s world. Nevertheless the moment MORE

Shakespeare Moments

“O dear Diana, Where am I?”

Pericles, Prince of Tyre, is the title of a little-known, and rarely-performed play by Shakespeare. It’s a vast romantic saga, with resemblances to the magic voyage myths of the Greeks and the Celts. The hero Pericles wins the love and MORE

Shakespeare Moments

“Journeys End in Lovers Meeting”

(from a song in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night)

“The April’s in her eyes: it is love’s spring,

And these the showers to bring it on.”

(Mark Antony speaks this lovely line about a lady who is shedding tears of love and sorrow, from the play MORE