by Gaylund Stone | Apr 24, 2025 | Embodied Thoughts
Referring to the observation of nature, John Ruskin wrote in Modern Painters (Vol. 2, 3:3:20): “Greatness can only be rightly estimated when minuteness is justly reverenced.” We hurry through life as though our only goal is to arrive at its end. Hurrying through life...
by Gaylund Stone | Apr 22, 2025 | Embodied Thoughts
Of course, there is THE Incarnation, God becoming flesh and dwelling among us at a specific moment in history. That’s the necessity of our human condition – since we lack a faith sufficient to make evidence unnecessary. Everything that is intangible must become...
by Gaylund Stone | Apr 17, 2025 | Embodied Thoughts
With our limited capabilities we usually experience meaningfulness through comparison – seeing one thing, in some inexplicable way, as similar to another. To borrow a phrase from Walker Percy, the best we can hope to do is to somehow fix the evolving meanings in time...
by Gaylund Stone | Apr 15, 2025 | Embodied Thoughts
It is all fireworks – the trajectories of our lives, beginning with an almost silent and invisible ascent, culminating in a burst of light and energy and then floating slowly to earth as the ash it was when it began… Such are the individual events, social contacts,...
