Lighting The Mind; Minding The Light. A Little Spiritual Therapy
Here’s a headline: I love to read. Reading, especially poetry, is cathartic for me (it’s been a tough summer), like chopping wood or jogging is cathartic for other people. I suppose I am also looking for wisdom here and there, as well. Then there are times when the spirit, or soul, or mind...or whatever you believe in...needs a little help. And for me…now would be a good time. So I reached up into my book shelves and pulled out some old favorites from the poetry shelf, as well as my Rembrandt King James Bible . I regularly read The Book Of Job , which I have commented on before in this space, and The Gospel of Mark , which I believe is the best and only gospel worth reading. The authors of both The Book of Job and Mark’s gospel, whoever they may be, teach us about dealing with the incommensurate, which, if nothing else, keeps me humble. They also tell us how to find out who we are. As for the poetry, I immediately went to, you guessed it, Wallace Steven...