Tag: Allegory

• March 3, 2014

  The Nordic man and the Book of Job: From ordinary to higher goods

  The Book of Job made greater sense to me as I was having a philosophical conversation with a Nordic man the other day. About two years ago, this man, who had hitherto been stout and robust with a wife and two young children, learned that he had a heart condition. Never before had he been…
• May 29, 2013

  Last day in Appalachia

  Last day in Appalachia. Mountain birds, tall grasses, more horses. Sing something, will you? Sing of a feather clinging to a window? Of the nights spent tossing words into the fire? Of the mornings spent meditating in calm? Of two young deer headed, in late spring, up the driveway? Looking young and perplexed, the pair…