Doug and Caren talk about the wonderful, albeit terrifying, position of midlife (49 and holding). We examine what creates the illusion of exhausted possibilities and how one can get going again, recover from atrophy, and live more deeply. Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility” provides our starting point for looking to live poetry rather than prose, and we touch on other writers and saints along the way.
Show notes:
Read Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility” here at the Poetry Foundation.
UVA has a reliable e-text of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden here (more from HDT next episode).
Frances de Sales’ spiritual classic Introduction to the Devout Life can be found here.
Our music is from Mobile’s own master string-player and Catholic high-school teacher Phil Proctor.
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