If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel? - Wendell Berry

One cannot reduce terror by holding over the world the threat of what it most fears.

After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.

I'm not a Baptist in any formal way. I go to the Baptist church, where my wife plays the piano, on days of bad weather. On days of good weather, I ramble off into the woods somewhere. I am a person who takes the Gospel seriously, but I have had trouble conforming my thoughts to a denomination.