2013 - Classics, VOLUME 6

Amy Frykholm – Writers on the Classics #10

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[easyazon-image align=”none” asin=”0300108168″ locale=”us” height=”333″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41sQqj8k28L.jpg” width=”216″] [easyazon-link asin=”0300108168″ locale=”us”]The Tempest[/easyazon-link] by William Shakepseare
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This play meets me in so many different places. Sometimes it seems to be a play about the divided kingdoms of my own psyche, sometimes about sweep of history, sometimes about cultivating personal compassion and forgiveness. The play is dark and light, cruel and kind, immense and intimate.

[easyazon-image align=”none” asin=”1613821891″ locale=”us” height=”333″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WK1WJqCHL.jpg” width=”222″] [easyazon-link asin=”1613821891″ locale=”us”]Leaves of Grass[/easyazon-link] by Walt Whitman
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I have especially lived by “Song of the Open Road.” “I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes/ These are the days that must happen to you.”

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Last year when I had a long commute, I read this book over and over on the train. It has so much accumulated wisdom, it almost makes me question human evolution.

“See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self;
then you can care for all things.”
Books by Amy Frykholm:

[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”0807004685″ locale=”us” height=”110″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414fAWWX6rL._SL110_.jpg” width=”71″]  [easyazon-link asin=”0807004685″ locale=”us”]See Me Naked: Stories of Sexual Exile in American Christianity[/easyazon-link] (2011)
[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”1557256268″ locale=”us” height=”110″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41dX%2BVQBSYL._SL110_.jpg” width=”74″] [easyazon-link asin=”1557256268″ locale=”us”]Julian of Norwich: A Contemplative Biography[/easyazon-link]  (2010)
[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B0044KMVE0″ locale=”us” height=”110″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iPAUojioL._SL110_.jpg” width=”73″]  [easyazon-link asin=”B0044KMVE0″ locale=”us”]Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America[/easyazon-link] (2004)

 

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