I am listening to the On Being podcast that features this week a conversation with Pauline Boss on the meaning of ambiguous loss and how there is a myth of closure in our cultures of impatient striving and ceaseless ambition. There does not need to be an end to grief or to loss. We have … Continue reading Reflections on 2018… ambiguous loss
Hopkins
What I am reading… Gerard Manley Hopkins
Here, listen to the uncanny insight... 75 The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less; The times are winter, watch, a world undone: They waste, they wither worse; they as they run Or bring more or more blazon man's distress. And I not help. Nor word now of success: All is from wreck, here, … Continue reading What I am reading… Gerard Manley Hopkins
Immortal diamond
Gerard Manley Hopkins was a poet I encountered on my parents' shelves as a child. A small paperback of his poems in a Penguin edition, perhaps from the 1960s, was one of the poetry books met early in life. Unlike many of the poems, which now I remember reading with my father, this book belonged … Continue reading Immortal diamond
