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“You put your hurt above everyone else’s. You raised us in pain because your husband died. You cast me aside because of what I did to your family. Well, it’s my family too.”
“In the ideal, our writing would be a feast, welcoming and enlivening to our readers. Yet we must recognize that a reader is also a kind of host. Readers receive our writing, bringing it into their homes, giving it their time and attention. The challenge of charitable writing, then, isn't simply to be a good host. It is, at the same time, to be a good guest. Our aspiration must not be simply to love others through our writing, as if we are all-sufficient. With all humility, we may earnestly hope that our writing will be an occasion to be loved.”
― Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words
― Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words
“I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he.”
― Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard
― Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard
“We’d try to define these terms like honor, integrity, etc. It really forced me to find some kind of substance to these terms that shape our lives. I was forced to look into a mirror, basically, at myself, to give these things real meaning. That changed the way I felt about everything, about others, about myself. I was literally digging into the very root of myself while digging into Shakespeare’s characters.”
― Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard
― Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard
“When other forms of law oppress us, we quite naturally retreat into autonomy, or self-law.”
― You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World
― You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World
“Viewing writing as exploration means that you don't have to have it all worked out before you begin. We find just such a sentiment modeled by Augustine. Responding to a criticism of his book on free will, he wrote, 'I endeavor to be one of those who write because they have made some progress, and who, by means of writing, make further progress.' Similarly, the twentieth-century Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor admitted, 'I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.' Simply stated: we may write to learn what we think.”
― Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words
― Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words
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Students and staff at Waunakee High School meet once per month during lunch to talk about books.
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For anyone who adheres to our mantra: "Wear the old coat, buy the new book." (yes, we borrowed that from Austin Phelps.) ...more
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Laura’s 2025 Year in Books
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