Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Thompson Norriswas a popular American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Her stories appeared in the Atlantic, The American Magazine, McClure's, Everybody's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion, and she wrote 93 novels, many of which were best sellers. She used her fiction to promote values including the sanctity of marriage, the nobility of motherhood,...
writing heart mean
Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has taught me that in matters of the heart, such as writing, or faith, there is no right or wrong way to do it, but only the way of your life. Just paying attention will teach you what bears fruit and what doesn't. But it will be necessary to revise--to doodle, scratch out, erase, even make a mess of things--in order to make it come out right.
pregnancy fruit melons
They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.
goal people strive
I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers…
loneliness writing world
I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.
curiosity conspiracy natural
I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.
writing
I write what I would like to read.
ruth left
When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.
baking bread ordinary
The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.
memorable unhappy should
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?
daily-tasks needs world
Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.
christian ideas desire
The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.
winter years needs
There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.
humility exercise self
To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.
crucible desert west
The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.