 "... it seemed a face of a human being to whom everything had happened that can happen. It was a face of great stillness, a face that had survived. "
Frederick Buechner of Leonardo's Jesus in The Faces of Jesus: A Life Story
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W. H. Auden About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.  "And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, 'Be still' and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. And they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things."
Maurice Sendak 1928-2012  Girls on a beach with a shrimp net. Harry John Pearson "You could more easily catch a hurricane in a shrimp net than you could understand the wild, relentless, passionate, uncompromising, pursuing love of God made present in the manger." Brennan Manning  Time to review the different species of evergreens. I can't believe I am the age I am and don't always even know my own Christmas Tree by its needles and smell. I need a yearly refresher. This is Tom Thomson's famous painting of a Jack Pine-- a symbol in my homeland. I know that one.
"Jack pines...are not lumber trees (and they) won't win many beauty contests either. But to me this valiant old tree, solitary on its own rocky point, is a beautiful as a living thing can be...In the calligraphy of its shape against the sky is written strength of character and perseverance, survival of wind, drought, cold, heat, disease...In its silence it speaks of...wholeness...an integrity that comes of being what you are." Douglas Wood  Henry Ossawa Tanner's "The Annunciation" 1898
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"Perhaps this is one of the secrets of life--to know 'glory' when we see it."
~ Charlotte Mason
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A wee explanation: this website was created as a way to amplify the daily surprise of seeing glory in one small life. The notebook entries represented here are all selected from things actually lived and noted on paper in an effort to live the full life British educator Charlotte Mason so ably championed.
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