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Category Archives: wonder
A Way of Seeing
“Oh, how good it is that I have been sent here to such beauty!” Diary I have … Continue reading
Posted in art, beauty, nature, wonder
Tagged A Quiet Eye, art, C.S.Lewis, Frederick Beuchner, learning to see, Lilias Trotter, Robert Blanding, Sylvia Shaw Judson, The Bird Girl
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The Speech of Angels
“We are lodged in rooms off the Central Hall (at Miechovitz in Northern Germany) – & before it is daylight the chorales begin there softly like birds singing in the dawn. . . and all day long there is a … Continue reading
Posted in wonder
Tagged art, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lilias Trotter, music, Plato, Thomas Carlyle, Tolstoy
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Sunshine of My Happy Heart
“The peaks of the Mischabel were just shouting for joy this morning in radiant snow, after a day’s storm, and the late filaments of cloud were dancing round their crests. Oh it is a wonderful world.” 28 August 1901 Autumn … Continue reading
Posted in beauty, focus, nature, wonder
Tagged Amy Carmichael, art, beauty, John Ruskin, Lilias Trotter, nature, wonder
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Beholdings!
“… going day by day for what the Japanese would call “beholdings” & bring(ing) back vivid word-pictures of the same that are a joy… They went with the intent of shewing Margaret (sister) a row of wonderful cypresses, silhouetted against … Continue reading
Posted in beauty, wonder
Tagged Algiers Bay, art, Elie WIesel, Lilias Trotter, Sara Teasdale, St. Augustine, Viktor Frankl
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