Beauty, Sunshine and a Short Trip to the Edge

Three new wash clothes, 1 green square for my 

many coloured blanket,

and a sunny morning here!
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I hope to sew more squares together soon on my blanket!

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I have started Scott Cairn's Short Trip to the Edge.

It's about his realization that his inner life

is not at all what he wishes and he goes off

to Mt Athos in hope of help....

it is an interesting as it come after he is

finally more where he wants to be in his career 

(he has one of the enviable positions as an English Professor)

and realizes, now that the dust has settled, that

inwardly he is in utter shambles and not at all 

where he thought he would be, spiritually, by the time he was

40 years old; I believe it is when he is 50 that he begins his actual pilgrimage

to Mt. Athos, where he has been now over 20 times.

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I will be turning 40 in December and can relate to his struggle 

for inward growth.

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Will relate back what I think of the book when I have read more.

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I am still reading Ware's The Orthodox Way and have decided it is a book

that needs to be on my 

books-I-need-to-remember-that-are-sources-of-solace list. 

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