December 29, You work, and you work, and you work, and then you get a glimmer of understanding. You work, and you work, and you work, and then you get a glimmer of understanding. December 24, There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity. Labels: Bryan Stevenson , compassion , criminal justice , humanity , Just Mercy , justice , memoir , mercy , redemption. December 07, Look to the real that you yourself live.
The kinds of tales found there can never come from books. December 06, Whatever the secret is, we understand that it is now part of our work for life. December 01, Forgiveness is an act of creation. November 19, In that sense, sexuality can be fashioned as a medicine for the spirit and is therefore sacred.
November 17, Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only. November 16, Stop running the milk train. Do the work of turning toward home. November 10, With few claims on her time and none on her soul, she turns back outside, into the woods, the green negation of all careers. Nearly wept.
I have thought about it often since. I packed the book for my train ride to Montreal last month, in hopes of advancing with the story during the hour trip. Instead, I re-read her chapter and it produced the same effect.
He tells her, on their drives, about all the oblique miracles that green can devise. People have no corner on curious behavior. Other creaturesβbigger, slower, older, more durableβcall the shots, make the weather, feed creation, and create the very air.
