One Saturday in February, back in 2002, I flew out to Portland, Oregon, to interview Jean M. Auel, the bestselling author of The Clan of the Cave Bear, about Ayla, a blond Cro Magnon girl who was orphaned by an earthquake and adopted by Neanderthals. I agreed with most readers that Auel’s fifth novel, Shelters [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Children of the Earth
Posted in Uncategorized on February 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Help in Hard Times
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last time, I wrote about how being in the “great loneliness”–whether in the actual wilderness or in a private wilderness of suffering–can reveal truths that are hidden to others. “The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me,” wrote the thirteenth century mystic Meister Eckart. Hard times have [...]
