Milking cows and dad music…

Book review:

A Sense of Wonder:

The World’s Best Writers

on the Sacred, the Profane, & the Ordinary

Edited by Brian James Patrick Doyle (1956-2017)

Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2016

192 pages

If Brian Doyle thinks you’re a good writer, ‘nuff said.

Most likely you’ll recognize at least a few names among Doyle’s collection of “the world’s best writers.”

In A Sense of Wonder, you can go straight to Mary Oliver (“Do You Think There Is Anything Not Attached by Its Unbreakable Cord to Everything Else”), or Pico Iyer (“A Chapel Is Where You Can Hear Something Beating Below Your Heart: I Came to the Chapel at the University as the Light Was Failing…”), or Paul Hawken (“Healing or Stealing? The Best Commencement Address Ever”), or, of course, Doyle himself (“The Late Mister Bin Laden: A Note”).

I especially like Connor Doe’s “Perfect Time: A Note on the Music of Being a Dad,” and if you’re not a dad, and you read it, you’ll start wishing right away that you could be one.

My choice for best “feel good” selection is

“An Elevator in Utah: On How Children Make Despair Look Stupid.”

Reading it creates the strangest urge to learn how to milk cows.

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Book review: Shantung Compound

They didn’t care much

about each other…

by Langdon Gilkey

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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 53 free verse and haiku poems,

and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)

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