Iconography : a writer's meditation / Susan Neville.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neville, Susan, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Icon painting.

Authorship.

Neville, Susan, 1951---Authorship.

Neville, Susan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""I started this meditation on the first day of Lent. I hope to keep going every day until Easter. Each day I go fishing in the water of this internal voice. This week the water's still, this angled pen a blue sail; the hook is lazy in the estuary, the water the color of lapis. So what if I don't catch a fish? I said that I would fish; that's all I promised. I bait the hook with each day's discipline. I have no guarantees that there is anything at all to catch in these particular waters, that something

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgments; Ash Wednesday, 2000; Buying Time; A Vow; A False Spring; Confession; I Am; Housekeeping; A Well-Lighted Place; Vocation; Inside This Skin; In Memoriam; St. Augustine; Marriage; Plague Sunday; Monday; Those Things I Didn't Know about Death; Discipline; On Place and Time; Synchronicity; Midpoint; Dusk: Third Sunday in Lent; On Fragility; Children; Wednesday; On the Cusp between Wednesday and Thursday:1l:30-12:30-Waiting to Fall Asleep; A Window into Radiance; Sunday; Grace; Wednesday Once Again; Witness; Thresholds; And So; Frogs and Karaoke; Palm Sunday

On Rivers and CherriesTuesday; Midnight, Passover; Wednesday; Thursday; Good Friday; Saturday; Sunday

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612071782

1-282-07178-5

0-253-11072-6

OCLC:

475949520