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Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is 12% done with Modern American Poetry
JIM BLUDSO OF THE PRAIRIE BELLE
Wall, no! I can’t tell what he lives,
Be case he don’t live, you see;
Least ways, he’s got out of the habit
Of living like you and me.
What have you been for the last three year
That you haven’t heard folks tell..?
- John Hay, former US Secretary of State (ca. 1905)
Jan 22, 2019 06:36AM Add a comment
Modern American Poetry

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is 27% done with Alligator Pie (Collector's Edition)
I’ve got a Special Person
At my daycare, where I’m in.
Her name is Mrs. Something
But we mostly call her Lynn.
Cause Lynn’s the one that shows you
How to Squish a paper cup.
And Lynn’s the one that smells good
When you make her pick you up.
Jan 22, 2019 06:09AM Add a comment
Alligator Pie (Collector's Edition)

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is 16% done with Alligator Pie (Collector's Edition)
After it snows
I go and lie on things.
I lie on my back
And make snow-angel wings.
I lie on my front
And powder-puff my nose.
I ALWAYS lie on things
Right after it snows.
- Dennis Lee, Canada’s Father Goose,
1974.
Jan 21, 2019 10:08AM Add a comment
Alligator Pie (Collector's Edition)

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is 60% done with Time & Tide
‘Come Holy Spirit with wisdom blessed, and in my heart take up thy rest...’ His own little prayer, the only one (the old man) says for himself. It’s short, but if it was answered, he’d be fine, just fine. The other prayers are more like a little chat with the Boss.
- an old Irishman’s cheerful thoughts!
Jan 21, 2019 09:12AM Add a comment
Time & Tide

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is 12% done with Modern American Poetry
PESSIMIST AND OPTIMIST
The one sits shivering in Fortune’s smile,
Taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath.
The other, gnawed by hunger, all the while
Laughs in the teeth of Death.
- Thomas Aldrich, ca. 1890
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Modern American Poetry

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is starting Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
I don’t want to be demure or respectable.
I was that way, asleep, for years.
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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is on page 100 of 597 of Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)
Elijah’s dream of his murdered wife:
That night she came to him in a dream.... she was happy...
She offered the cup of her palms to him, and he saw within it a small child, asleep.
‘This is our daughter,’ she said in words that were soundless... she sleeps but her heart is awake....’
Elijah woke with the first light.
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Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is starting Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
I WAKE UP CLOSE TO MORNING
Why do people keep asking to see
God’s identity papers
when the darkness opening into morning
Is more than enough?
...Think of Sheba approaching
the kingdom of Solomon.
Do you think she had to ask,
‘Is this the place?’
Jan 20, 2019 07:31AM Add a comment
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is on page 89 of 597 of Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)
Which was the greater miracle, the suspension of natural law for the sake of physical healing, or the conversion of the human heart by absolute love?
Jan 20, 2019 07:21AM Add a comment
Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is 6% done with Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
THE WHITE STAG
I ha’ seen them ‘mid the clouds on the heather.
Lo! they pause not for love nor for sorrow,
Yet their eyes are as the eyes of a maid to her lover,
When the white hart breaks his cover
And the white wind breaks the morn.
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Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is starting Krishnamurti's Notebook
Currently rereading, for the first time since 1986. This man had an incredible, indescribably alert mind!
Jan 19, 2019 02:44PM Add a comment
Krishnamurti's Notebook

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is 3% done with Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
CINO
(Sun,) Bid thy ‘fulgence bear away care.
Cloud and rain-tears pass they fleet!
Seeking e’er the new-laid rast-way
To the gardens of the sun...
I have sung women in three cities
But it is all one.
I will sing of the white birds
In the blue waters of heaven,
The clouds that are spray to its sea.
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Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is 10% done with A Church Wide Enough for Everyone: A Novel about Mainline Churches, Reformed Theology, and the Emerging Church
There is a LOT of perhaps unnecessary filler in this novel, but on the whole it’s a pleasant enough and very USEFUL and personal look at how permissive trends in America back in the 60’s eventually stifled plain, reverent worship.
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A Church Wide Enough for Everyone: A Novel about Mainline Churches, Reformed Theology, and the Emerging Church

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is on page 80 of 597 of Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)
This is wonderful reading. The book is suffused with O’Brien’s affable and childlike faith, and takes me back to a time in my own life - as in these descriptions of Assisi - when life, though perhaps cluttered and busy, permitted an ingenuous joy now so foreign to my current open, jarring world of bemused senior citizenry!
Jan 18, 2019 11:40AM Add a comment
Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is 14% done with LEVINAS: Philosophical Reflections
Emmanuel Levinas’ view of the world is so dynamically different, yet by its religiosity allows a new kind of ethics to come into being...’what I become in relation to others: The Other allows a human to be opened and not dominated... this mutual experience of awakening changes his attitude of supremacy and replaces it with humility.’
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LEVINAS: Philosophical Reflections

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is on page 69 of 597 of Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)
‘Onward to Mordor!’ shouted Billy.
‘Mordor? We’re going to Capri.’
‘A figure of speech, Davy....’
Jan 17, 2019 04:43PM Add a comment
Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is on page 2 of 324 of The Red Tent
The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.
Jan 17, 2019 08:56AM Add a comment
The Red Tent

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is 25% done with The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus (Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics)
I never liked the appeal to enlightened self-interest. I wanted to love my fellows; I loved the Poor with compassion. I could not be happy unless I shared poverty, lived as they did, suffered as they did.
Jan 17, 2019 08:13AM Add a comment
The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus (Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics)

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is on page 50 of 597 of Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)
‘Real suffering is always different from
what we imagine,’ Elijah said... ‘Obedience is the best form of poverty, Billy. I think that is the kind of martyrdom you have been given.’
- Father Elijah, laconic Jewish convert to Catholic monasticism, talking to an old friend from Jerusalem.
Jan 16, 2019 01:26PM Add a comment
Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is on page 40 of 597 of Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)
A very, VERY good read. O’Brien weaves a compelling tale!
Jan 16, 2019 10:00AM Add a comment
Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is 70% done with Clear Winter Nights: A Journey into Truth, Doubt, and What Comes After
‘We are not defined by our temptations. We are defined by our redemption.’
Jan 15, 2019 11:43AM Add a comment
Clear Winter Nights: A Journey into Truth, Doubt, and What Comes After

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is 20% done with Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret
Now a-fifth of the way through this dark, slow-paced (but gripping) family mystery and exposé of the vast, monolithic mental health care system of post-war times...
Jan 15, 2019 08:46AM Add a comment
Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret

Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs is 53% done with Hinds Feet on High Places
Just then she looked up at the cliffs above.... In a tiny crevice... was a single plant. On the stem was one flower, blood red, which glowed....
‘What is your name, little flower...?’
‘My name is Bearing-the-Cost - but some call me Forgiveness.’
Jan 15, 2019 07:42AM Add a comment
Hinds Feet on High Places

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