Tag: Joy

• December 24, 2014

  Openness, wonder, and joy

  Philosophy is not for those who presume to know all there is to know. Nor is it for those who, being bourgeois, take life to be wholly self-explanatory. ‘The commonplace mind,’ writes Josef Pieper in ‘The Philosophical Act,’ ‘rendered deaf-mute, finds everything self-explanatory’ to the point at which ‘”wonder” is no longer there.’ Now that must be…
• July 26, 2012

  ‘A heaven in a wildflower…’

  I said, I am looking at a photograph. In the photo, there are green meadows and there is the silhouette of a tree draped across the summer grass. In my fingers which are stained with chalk, I am holding a clementine. I hold it up roundly, delicately, offering it to you. We are not looking…
• June 16, 2012

  Rain song and sun song

  Rain Song When we carried it uphill, the rain hurt our backs. When we let it run downhill, the rain brought us back. When we ran with it seaward, the rain fell on our backs. When we danced with it skyward, the rain sung to us back. When we hummed to it softly, the rain…