[…] left. It is so with this summary, for each chapter leaves more unsaid than it records. I read it over and think, ‘why should anyone be interested enough to read this?’ Except for my […]
[…] Lake Tribune of half a century or more ago. Two impressions usually emerge. One is of a newspaper filled with vitriolic, anti-Mormon diatribes, each day’s outpouring more bitter than the last, each likely to […]
[…] converted nearly half the population of their islands. I embraced one young man whom I had taught English when he was twelve (we had read Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and […]
[…] character of God and man’s place in the universe. This is illustrated in the Scriptures of the world religions over and over again. In the Tao Teh King, the classic scripture of Taoism, for […]
[…] hatch, and the boys weren’t discovered until the train stopped to re-ice at Pocatello. My father received news of Clif’s whereabouts calmly, and advised authorities to hold him until he sent someone, then to […]
[…] will be represented in whatever inconspicuous building replaces it. There will be no smashing of imported glass, breaking up of carved wood work, pulling apart hand hewn beams, or pushing over walls of hand […]
[…] daughter—in explanation of her name) Balance is what we mean the name to tell her when she’s suckled news into her brain that birth knits her into the nervous system of the spastic, plastic planet,
[…] us the present lower law to prepare us for the time when we can learn to fully share all of the Gospel with all of our brothers and sisters. This strikes me as grasping […]
[…] does the Church hold for me—for this world or hereafter? Everything is for the married woman: a share of her husband s priesthood. The Church should have a more prominent place for the “Mormon […]
[…] found among Ellen Spencer Clawson’s papers. It begins “I loved thee once, but it was when/ I shared thy heart alone” and ends “I never thought that in thy smile/ A serpent lurked beneath.” […]