Those were the days where they were scared; they wondered if it was going to close down, or if some nosy person would find out about them and make them confess to the public what they had done in their clandestine click.
But mostly they were simply waiting for someone to tell them that it was fine enough to breathe–to enjoy that glorious oxygen of which they had deprived themselves by sitting in their self-created dungeons.
I had the pleasure of meeting the Starks this weekend at our Phoenix Groundhog celebration (which was better than all other Groundhog celebrations). They are excellent people, and I’m pretty sure that they love UD, and so do I, so here is something that they are helping to put on with Dr. Osborn. If you’re in the Dallas area, this looks pretty great, and so I hope that you can attend these lectures.
Way down yonder in the Minor Key,
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The University of Dallas’s
Stark Visiting Writers Series
presents
Two Evenings
with essayist and editor
Gregory Wolfe
Monday, February 21 – 7:00 pm, Art History Auditorium
Shouts or Whispers? –
The Catholic Imagination in a Postmodern World
Tuesday, February 22 – 7:00 pm, Lynch Auditorium
Catholic Tradition and the Individual Talent:
A Discussion of Creativity’s Place in the Curriculum
Gregory Wolfe is Writer in Residence at Seattle Pacific University and founding editor of the literary arts-and-religion quarterly Image. He also directs the MFA program in creative writing at SPU and has served as a judge for the National Book Awards. Wolfe’s essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Commonweal and First Things, and have been anthologized in collections such as The Best Christian Writing and The Best Catholic Writing. Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith & Mystery was published in 2004; a new collection, Beauty Will Save the World: Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age (ISI) is forthcoming this June.
Both events, made possible by the Stark Fund for Creative Writing, are free and open to the public.
Cheltz's Goat Cheese Salad from "The Old Mill Cookbook"
It's a fabulous London Broil with a Red Rasberry Preserves/Shallot/Balsamic/Wine/Oil Sauce
Mama says, "Don't be bashful."
