“When the time bind catches me, it seems impossible to come out ahead. I have gotten too little done, or I have done so very much that I failed to share time with people I love. Anger at myself contends against anger at others, whether they be fritterers or workaholics or simply people who need me more than I can afford to be needed. Time becomes an arena of anguish, and the genuine hardships I face in trying to juggle the demands take on an added dimension of pain. When this is so, I arise weary each day, trying once again to pull together enough energy to earn the air I breathe.”
Dorothy C. Bass, “Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time”
Today is the first day of Winter Quarter, and I woke up thinking about time. (more…)
Susan Pitchford
Fioretti ("little flowers")
A "florilegium" is a collection, or bouquet, of writings. It comes from the Latin "flora" (flower)+ "legere" (to gather). It has the same meaning as the Greek word "anthology."
In the Middle Ages and beyond, when books were rare and expensive, people copied their favorite excerpts from books into a booklet they carried with them, a florilegium. In a similar vein, the "fioretti" or "little flowers" of Francis of Assisi are a series of stories about the saint that were gathered into a single volume. In this florilegium (nicer than "blog," isn't it?), I'd like to gather some of my favorite bits of writing by various authors, adding a little commentary but mostly letting the quotations speak for themselves. I hope it will grow into a garden that will be a pleasant place to linger for a bit. Enjoy! Archives
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