Bloggers are so smart: a weekend's reading

Check in with Cindy at Ordo Amoris for "The Intellect and the Imagination" :

"I just finished the Introduction to Reversed Thunder by Eugene Peterson. Every once in a while you read something that unexpectedly says everything you believe about life and the world. Off the top of my head I can think of several times this has happened to me: chapter 7 of Poetic Knowledge, Chapter 2 of How Does and Poem Mean? and now the Introduction to Reversed Thunder...."

Cindy refers to this post at U Krakovianki, "Thoughts on Poetic Knowledge by James Taylor, ch. 1":

"Studying the wholeness of things, and their place within greater wholes, is the key to opening the door to synthetic/poetic knowledge, and avoiding the analytic knowledge trap. This is most important because those of us who grew up in institutional schools have experienced only an analytical approach to knowledge, and we need to be very, very careful to avoid the tendency to break everything down into small parts. None of us would give our children a vitamin tablet, a bit of sugar, and a dose of fiber and imagine that it was the equivalent of giving him an apple. The whole apple is much better for him, and so is the wholeness of poetic knowledge. It goes without saying that it tastes better, too."

Something from Brenda at Coffee, Tea, Books and Me:

"There must be someone in the family who can make a party on a rainy day and a feast in the midst of famine. Someone who understands hot soup in cold weather, slices of cold watermelon in a heatwave, or that warm cookies with tea just about anytime warms the soul as well as body. Someone to snap a picture or write a letter or perhaps to keep a journal or create a scrapbook.

"Someone to build the altar of remembrance, always leading those they love back to the One who loves them. Someone who understands how fleeting life can be and how quickly it passes and that we must slow down and really, really look... and provide memories...."

And Gayle at Grocery Cart Challenge reminds us to "Look on the Bright Side":

"I’m a firm believer in the silver lining theory. Even though I have moments where my day to day life can get the best of me, I always know that there is something good buried in the tough stuff. You just have to be able to look for it and pull it up out of the rubble."

It's all good stuff to keep us thinking.