[…] various well-known Kabbalistic methods including Temurah (reading the Hebrew text from left to right, like a word search, to find hidden “backward masking” revelations), Notarikon (reading each letter of a word as the first letter […]
[…] fingers swell, are constricted by her rings. “Actually, I was thinking about certain economic indicators for the international plastic market.” “You were thinking about your past. What were you thinking about it?” He shrugs […]
[…] how many miles this place was from a town. He did know it wasn’t a place for breaking into a mindless run, which was what he felt like doing just now. “So what about […]
[…] rush towards it and curl and roll and crash and then pull together again. Endless motion. Endless breaking. Endless knitting back together. The ocean. The waves. Endless cycling. The turn of a wheel. Chapter […]
For the last several years I have had the opportunity to serve on the Mormon History Association’s book awards committee. That assignment— in addition to my day job as Curator of Special Collections at Weber…
[…] crisis was not de lineated (p. 271). Snow family tradition reports that when the apostle shared the news with Brigham Young, Young said, “Oh God! Now it will start again” (p. 271). Realizing that […]
[…] the bathroom. Middlemarch. In school I never had time to read Middlemarch even though I was an English major. Now I run herd on ESL kids from 9 to 4 and our own kids […]
[…] dream, can’t I? Another definition of “fusion” is instructive. From Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language (unabridged), 1983: “in optics, the act of bringing the eyes in visual line so that […]
[…] I can find. I understand that the tasks of getting the Hebrew right, getting the translation into English right, and—through it all—maintaining the poetry can yield only an approximation. I have read numerous translations […]
[…] to bless others with whatever love I am capable of giving. Rollo May, Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence (New York: Norton, 1972), 105-110. Ibid., 113. Ibid., 118. New York […]