A new year’s prayer: that I might pay attention
He wasn’t friendly but he had focus. Based on Godfrey Kneller, Isaac Newton, 1689. Image source: Wikipedia Commons Happy New Year, dear readers! I for one am glad to see the calendar change. When I was younger I was indifferent to the changing years, but here at midlife I have come to experience, despite all [...]
On prayer: Simone Weil and the excluded God
Simone Weil‘s 1935 factory identification photo. In that year she began working as a power press operator at the Alstom Company in Paris. She was highly educated and had many options but chose to work alongside those who had no power. She later wrote, “A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody [...]
