by Shari Dragovich | Jan 18, 2014 | Bookmarks, Currently Reading, On Writing, Reviews
When I was creating this blog, I was quite certain that book musings would play a regular if not leading role in what I shared. After all, reading is like oxygen to my lungs; the beauty of the written word may begin in my mind, but soon travels throughout my soul...
by Shari Dragovich | Oct 27, 2013 | Bookmarks, Currently Reading, Faith, Nature, Ribbon Box
For the past several years, I have taken to reading poetry on Sunday mornings. Wendell Berry’s, A Timbered Choir: Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 are my favorite. Here is one I read this morning, I must share with you…. To Sit and Look at Light-filled Leaves To...
by Shari Dragovich | Apr 14, 2013 | Bookmarks, Currently Reading, Faith
I spent the better part of yesterday fumbling through a post following up on last week’s topic of simplicity. I wanted to explore the idea of silence as a discipline of simplicity and how our societal noise has created a lack of compassion for one another. I wrote a...
by Shari Dragovich | Apr 6, 2013 | Bookmarks, Currently Reading, Faith, These Days
This month, my book club is reading Freedom of Simplicity by Richard Foster. This is what I love about my book club – last month we read The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover (loved!), the month before was Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (wonderful!) and...
by Shari Dragovich | Jun 12, 2012 | Bookmarks, Currently Reading, Faith
“There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared, it is itself the great venture and can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving oneself completely to God’s...
by Shari Dragovich | May 16, 2012 | Bookmarks, Children's reading, Currently Reading, Faith, Mothering, Reviews, Women's Issues
I’m reading The Yearling to my children. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Marjorie Kennan Rawlings is set in the Florida scrub forests surrounding a poor yet sturdy family, the Baxters, living amongst an island of pines post Civil War. The story is written...
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