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Listening Anew
In found pockets of spare time – the five minutes before needing to leave to make an appointment; the fifteen minutes between emails – I’ve been updating my list of books on this blog. I’m not sure too many readers … Continue reading
Posted in faith, prayer, reading, spirituality, Uncategorized
Tagged " good ambiguity, "Because the Night, Austerlitz, Electric Ladlyland, gentle revolutionary, Godmother of Punk, Golden Gate Park, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Just Kids, Lindsey Crittenden, Marie Antoinette, New York City, Patti Smith, People, Ploughshares, Ramones, Ruth Rendell, Sam Shepard, Sea Ranch, St Andrews, St Francis of Assisi, The Water Will Hold You, Virginia Center for Creative Arts
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Sit for a While
I came home from my writing group feeling jazzed. After struggling with a story revision, I’d decided to show the group twenty-five pages of new nonfiction. They loved it and told me, “This is what you should be writing.” Questions, … Continue reading
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Sounds of Silence
A little over a year ago, I picked up A Book of Silence. The title intrigued me, as did the premise: writer Sara Maitland traveled into silence of the most extreme kind. She leased a remote cottage on the isle … Continue reading
Posted in craft, prayer, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged A Book of Silence, anxiety, boundaried self, centering prayer, desert fathers, isle of Skye, Lindsey Crittenden, meditation, prayer, Ragdale, Romantic tradition of solitude, Sara Maitland, silence, Sinai desert, social media, solitude, The Art of FIction, the permeable self, The Water Will Hold You, wilderness, Wordsworth
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My good friend Jane
We all have friends like her. You know the ones. Months, years go by, and when you see them again, it’s as if no time has passed. Kim, whom I met thirteen years ago at a writers’ colony. Sarah, with … Continue reading
Posted in reading, Uncategorized
Tagged beaches, Charlotte Bronte, family vacation, friends, friendship, Jane Eyre, Lindsey Crittenden, reading, romance novels, vacation reading
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Drawing Apples While the Germans Roll In
For years until her death in 2000, my mother and I would meet on Tuesdays at the same Japanese restaurant, before going to hear whoever was speaking that night at City Arts and Lectures. My mother always dressed to go … Continue reading
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Tagged 92nd Street Y, Afghan Women's Writing Project, AWWP, Cesar Chavez, City Arts and Lectures, Clockers, Day of the Oprichnik, drawing apples, Emile Zola, German troops marching into Paris, Glen Workshop, Herbst Theatre, Japanese restaurants, John Updike, Lindsey Crittenden, Melissa Pritchard, mother, novelist, Picasso, Richard Price, Rose Hips jeans, Skeptic Learns to Pray, smocked dress, sushi, Tom Wolfe, United Farm Workers, vanilla Yoo-Hoo, Vladimir Sorokin
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