The Wake Up Call – 24 January 2013
The Wake Up Call -
24 January 2013
Like the smell of strong coffee wafting down the hall, we offer a few book-related thoughts and stories to jumpstart your day…
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Today is the feast of St. Francis De Sales…
Read more about St. Francis De Sales’ life…
Poem of the Day: St. Francis De Sales by William Edward Heygate
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen, born on this day in 1932
*** Books by Henri Nouwen
“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”
- Novelist, Edith Wharton, born on this day in 1862
*** Books by Edith Wharton
- Novelist, Edith Wharton, born on this day in 1862
*** Books by Edith Wharton
Book News:
- Image Journal: On the process of keeping a commonplace book
- NY Review of Books: A review of Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
- Publishers Weekly: Summary of the recent Pew survey on Library Services
Thanks be to God for this new day, may it be full of beauty and grace!
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