The Second Call: Flight (Batman III) — Jessica from: CS Lewis, Limping Metaphors, and Groanings Too Deep For Words What Barfield is saying here is that metaphors are not simply ‘poetic trappings,” but the foundation for all of human speech—but we have become so familiar with these metaphors (as well as historically removed from their […]

The Call: S’mores — Jessica Bear with me here, as I attempt to tease out something from the jumbled mass of thoughts running through my head. I was listening to a podcast by the Circe Institute when Andrew Kern mentioned how Robert Frost thought that all art was a gathering of metaphors. Kern was speaking […]

The Second Response: Take Off — Jessica I didn’t want this topic to end without getting in one more post. What moves a photo beyond a snapshot? It’s the depth of thought that went into making it. I know, Cheryl, that we have talked before about how we work out the photograph in our minds […]

The First Response: Enter Batman — Jessica I had bit of a revelation last week at the library. Again. This time I was flipping through a book of portraits of people from exotic foreign lands during the 1920s and 1930s. I thought the photos were interesting and so I was trying to deconstruct them. Why […]

Second Call: The Good Shepherd — Cheryl Years ago, I bought two books by Sofia Cavalletti: The Religious Potential of the Child and its sequel aimed for 6- to 12-year-olds. They sat on the shelf, unread, for years. Yesterday, I finished the first book. Of course, by the time I had finished chapter two, I […]