For Ann Gauger. We have our first episode out, featuring St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi.
I had not encountered the blessing from St Claire before. How beautiful!
The dust reminds me of the dust in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. In Burnt Norton:
"But to what purpose
Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves
I do not know."
and then again:
"Sudden in a shaft of sunlight
Even while the dust moves
There rises the hidden laughter
Of children in the foliage"
And in Little Gidding:
"Ash on an old man's sleeve
Is all the ash the burnt roses leave.
Dust in the air suspended
Marks the place where a story ended.
Dust inbreathed was a house-
The walls, the wainscot and the mouse,
The death of hope and despair,
This is the death of air."
https://anngauger.substack.com/p/the-marriage-of-poetry-and-music?sd=pf
Thank you! Bless you! I needed this, write on time! (Misspelling intended.)
Now for you
I had not encountered the blessing from St Claire before. How beautiful!
The dust reminds me of the dust in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. In Burnt Norton:
"But to what purpose
Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves
I do not know."
and then again:
"Sudden in a shaft of sunlight
Even while the dust moves
There rises the hidden laughter
Of children in the foliage"
And in Little Gidding:
"Ash on an old man's sleeve
Is all the ash the burnt roses leave.
Dust in the air suspended
Marks the place where a story ended.
Dust inbreathed was a house-
The walls, the wainscot and the mouse,
The death of hope and despair,
This is the death of air."
https://anngauger.substack.com/p/the-marriage-of-poetry-and-music?sd=pf
Thank you! Bless you! I needed this, write on time! (Misspelling intended.)
Now for you