I’m not religious in the traditional sense, but I find endless inspiration in churches. If not for the glory of God, they are, at least, remarkable monuments to the human imagination — the human striving for artistic and architectural perfection, the capture of enormous space, the making of humankind in the image of a universal …
I was at a meditation workshop this past weekend, and found it a gold mine of inspiration for my writing. We did many hours of meditating, and as the noise/clutter of my mind died down into the great quiet, there were these large nuggets of ideas, sitting there. For the first time, I saw the …
In yesterday’s post, I introduced the first five of my all-time top ten list of movies about the Middle Ages. To recap, here are the first five: The Name Of The Rose Braveheart Becket Seventh Seal Monthy Python and the Holy Grail Here is the rest of my all-time top ten movies about the Middle …
OK, quick! What are your top ten movies about the Middle Ages? What, nobody responding? Can’t think of ten movies about the Middle Ages? How many can you think of, then? Making my own top 10 list was challenging: there was a whole list of titles crowding the entrance. When I applied rules, there were …