Hugh B. Brown: The Early Years
April 16, 2018[…] him. Even up to the time of his death, his awful temper and quick tongue alienated practically all the members of his family. The person who influenced my early life most was, of course, […]
[…] him. Even up to the time of his death, his awful temper and quick tongue alienated practically all the members of his family. The person who influenced my early life most was, of course, […]
[…] both man and bird, at moments such as these. A young ex-nun friend told me once that all through her growing up years she had imagined God as a tapioca pudding. I didn’t ask […]
[…] rang down, the gallery turned to bedlam. Next day’s Deseret News smote Artists and Models hip and —er—thigh. This sort of disgusting filth just wasn’t appropriate in Zion. It was tasteless pornography, pandering to […]
[…] her chickens on the other. Her wooden house leaned to the east and let in the weather —a warm breeze in the summer, a bit of storm fine as sea spray in the winter. […]
I sit scrunched in a fetal position, my eyes tightly closed, savoring the womblike comfort of the playhouse. A spider is weaving its filmy home in one corner of the ceiling, and a fly has…
I wonder why clouds aren’t on the ground. Why do things grow? If the sun has eyes? Why does everything start with a letter? Why is the moon there and not down here? I […]
[…] They explain the importance of cultural knowledge and suggest ways to preserve or recapture its meaning. Sacred Land, Sacred View is just such a record for the Dine or Navajo of the Four Corners […]
[…] takes about an hour to travel from the Mormon church in Johannesburg to the one in Soweto. And those sixty minutes present an open window on the world of difference between “black” South Africa […]
[…] good people or when a good person simply “crashes” as slang might have it, and one does not know why or what to do, when one wonders whether one has built on sand, whether […]
[…] battles of the Lord. I will also cross the Atlantic, encounter the queen’s forces, and overcome them —plant the American standard on English ground, and then march to the palace of her majesty, and […]