Jun 25, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart
Jeffers room at Detjeen’s Big Sur My wife (Karin) and I took, for our 40thanniversary, to the Ucluelet/Tofino area on the West Coast of Canada. The waves from the ocean continually rose in thick white foams, crested, then crashed on the shoreline. Rocks and...
Jun 12, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Pat Morrow, Jeremy Schmidt, Art Twomey, Searching for Tao Canyon (Rocky Mountain Books Ltd., 2018). “The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.” –Edward Abbey My wife (Karin) and I have spent some challenging moments in slot canyons,...
May 28, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart
I have, over the last few decades, been taken and held by the fine life and writings of Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day and Dan Berrigan. I have a lengthy correspondence with Dan’s brother, Phil Berrigan. I have pondered, for decades, the points of similarity yet also...
May 15, 2018 | Author - Lazar Puhalo, Author - Ron Dart
See Table of Contents below for topics and time discussed. I. Theology (O:01) Bulgakov (St. Sergius in Paris, the Sophianists) vs Florovsky (St. Vlads in NA, the Patristic Revival) 5:00 Patristic Revival of Liturgy contra the Scholastics, reviving liturgy as a...
May 1, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Jeffers room at Deetjen’s Inn in Big Sur Review of James Karman, Robinson Jeffers: Poet and Prophet (Stanford University Press, 2015). Lee Masters, Frost and Robinson Jeffers all really have something to say and some real art. – C.S. Lewis, Letter to...
Apr 13, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart
What is the “Glass Bead Game”? in the idyllic poem, “Hours in the Garden” (1936), which he wrote during the composition of his novel, [Hermann] Hesse speaks of “a game of thoughts called the Glass Bead Game” that he practiced while burning leaves in his garden. As the...
