"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Friday, January 22, 2010

Catherine, Chicote's Bar & The Journey Thru The Past...




Night again…another period of daylight has passed, time every creeping onward in its persistent progression, relentless in its fortitude. Today I did receive the e-mail that I was hoping for last night and this morning and I can now reveal the identity of the person I was anticipating hearing from – the theologian/author Catherine Barclay, PhD. Through her thoughts and writings Catherine has had a profound influence on my life; she is a wonderful person that has unique qualities that one can not quite forget once being engaged by her. I have heard that she does most of her writing now at Chicote’s bar in Madrid, a place of inspiration and illumination; it is thought that Hemingway spent some time there while he was in Spain during the 30’s. I am looking forward to taking her advice and embarking on my journey thru the past in the next couple of days. Anticipating grace in the journey and in the places and in the faces I encounter on it.

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