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On clouds and darkness | The Great Ramble

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About – The Alice Munro Project. Of life and literature. On clouds and darkness. Posted by Andrea Nolan. Asymp; 2 Comments. St John of the Cross. This morning I read a blog post by Brother James, of the Order of the Holy Cross, from their Grahamstown, South Africa Monastery. And I was inspired by his words, and began a long rambling comment to that effect, but then decided that maybe I should just post my response here. And then a little later Br. James quoted this poem, that:. Heavy falling mist –.

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On Camus: Notebooks 1935 – 1942 | The Great Ramble

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About – The Alice Munro Project. Of life and literature. On Camus: Notebooks 1935 – 1942. Posted by Andrea Nolan. Asymp; Leave a comment. Notebooks 1935 - 1942. I’ve been working my way through these. For the last few months. I love reading writer’s journals and letters, but I often just dip and out of them, and ultimately leave them unfinished. This is the same way that I used to treat large poetry anthologies, but after reading all of Mark Doty’s. People can think only in images. If you want to be ...

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Monk Camp | The Great Ramble

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About – The Alice Munro Project. Of life and literature. Posted by Andrea Nolan. Asymp; 1 Comment. I’ve spent the last month at Holy Cross Monastery. On Where I Stayed. Usually I stay in the main guesthouse, which has about 45 rooms, give or take a few, and is open to guests from Tuesday afternoon to Sunday afternoon. In the past I’ve only managed to stay from Tuesday to Friday because weekends are often booked solid with retreat groups. However, this time I stayed a month, from June 11 to July 13. Dinne...

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Monk Camp #2 – Into the Great Silence | The Great Ramble

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About – The Alice Munro Project. Of life and literature. Monk Camp #2 – Into the Great Silence. Posted by Andrea Nolan. Asymp; Leave a comment. Rule of St. Benedict. The Great Silence Contemplative Days:. During my last week at Holy Cross monastery ( click here to see my blog post about my month at the monastery. The entire community participated in contemplative days, which meant living in complete silence and attending reduced offices. Or a monk being forced out of their silence. I first experienced re...

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On Alice Munro, reading, empathy and “Dance of the Happy Shades” | The Great Ramble

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About – The Alice Munro Project. Of life and literature. On Alice Munro, reading, empathy and “Dance of the Happy Shades”. Posted by Andrea Nolan. Asymp; Leave a comment. Dance of the happy shades. Nobel Prize for Literature. The Alice Munro Project. About a year ago, several months before Alice Munro so deservedly won the Nobel Prize for Literature. I set out to read all of her collections of short stories, a project I dubbed the “Alice Munro Project,”. Dance of the Happy Shades. A rather implausible al...

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About – The Alice Munro Project. Of life and literature. About – The Alice Munro Project. After using this Blog infrequently for the last couple of years, mostly documenting some of my reading habits, my latest idea for this space is my Alice Munro project. A further description of that project can be linked to here. Is the excellent collection,. A bit more about me can be found at www.andreajnolan.com. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). On clouds and darkness.

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Citizen by Claudia Rankine – a brief, rambling book review | The Great Ramble

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About – The Alice Munro Project. Of life and literature. Citizen by Claudia Rankine – a brief, rambling book review. Posted by Andrea Nolan. Asymp; Leave a comment. I also taught Shyla Hardwick’s powerful poem, “Worms,” https:/ www.youtube.com/watch? This is supposed to be a review of. Larr; Previous post. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Bill a...

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A book ramble: A Tale For The Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki | The Great Ramble

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About – The Alice Munro Project. Of life and literature. A book ramble: A Tale For The Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki. Posted by Andrea Nolan. Asymp; Leave a comment. A Tale for the Time Being. I have so much to say about. A Tale For the Time Being. Article about the book:. My husband said, ‘You. Which is one of the most perfect books I’ve ever read, but as I think about that book, and the construct of the narrator for that book, I think the character of Ruth may be even more fully realized in. My other favor...

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About – The Alice Munro Project. Of life and literature. Review: Mark Doty’s Fire to Fire. March 22, 2014. A beautiful book. Not my favorite, ever, but gorgeous all the same. And there is something that feels so good …. Continue reading →. Porches – Book Reviews. March 14, 2014. In the last few days I took a writing retreat to Porches, in the mountains of Virgina, about an hour …. Continue reading →. 8220;The Shining Houses” (AMP #2): Swimming against the current. August 7, 2013. Continue reading →.