Soul Food: Week of November 7, 2021

“Soul Food” is a regularly updated calendar of meditations sometimes questioning conventional wisdom & often suggesting eternal values

Sunday: Not that the heart can be good without knowledge, for without knowledge the heart is empty. But there are two kinds of knowledge: the first is alone in its bare speculation of things, and the second is accompanied by the grace of faith and love, which causes a man to do the will of God from the heart. John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress

Monday: Whether it’s by reason of my dyslexia or common vanity, I often find myself telling folks I’m 64 years old rather than my real 46 years of age.

Tuesday: All politics is local. Tip O’Neill

Wednesday: Don’t get mad, get even. Robert Kennedy popularized by John F. Kennedy

Thursday: Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats

Friday: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over – like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? Langston Hughes

Saturday: And though in the full course of his research Each lover must deceive himself at will Must falsify, forget, betray, besmirch Debase and doublecross and nearly kill, Yet licking their lips all lovers are agreed The soul’s a something very sweet indeed. Edwin Denby

Davd Soul