Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Excerpted Inspirations #31
"My Spiritual Awakening "I had been sitting in the library for half an hour. I turned to my teacher and said, 'Such a strange thing has...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Jun 14, 20221 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #30
"Morning after morning I returned to my hillside room to reach out for the stillness as a thirsty man reaches for a cup of cold water. I...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Jun 7, 20221 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #29
"As he sat gazing into the clear running of the water, Archibald Craven gradually felt his mind and body both grow quiet, as quiet as the...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
May 31, 20221 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #28
"They sat up late that night talking -- Marise must tell all about Rome and the old Visconti, as legendary a figure to Mlle. Hasparren as...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
May 24, 20221 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #27
"The Dean made a hasty luncheon and after it, he set out immediately for Worship Street. Under the Porta, beneath her room, he...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
May 17, 20222 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #26
"One day Aunt Martha, when she came to bring eggs for the store, brought also The Cuckoo Clock and said Nancy might keep it for a week....
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
May 10, 20222 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #25
"'But something worse was ailin' my heart, only Doc didn't know about that: it was starvin' to death. The Cove didn't have no...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
May 3, 20222 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #24
"Later in the evening when the moon had come up, Aunt Martha opened the door that looked down toward the orchard. "'Nancy,' she said,...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Apr 26, 20222 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #23
"The world's spiritual geniuses seem to discover universally that the mind's muddy river, this ceaseless flow of trivia and trash, cannot...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Apr 19, 20222 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #22
"Dick and Dolly did not write, but were encouraged to observe the habits of animals and insects, and report what they saw. Dick liked...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Apr 12, 20221 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #21
"Her hands folded in her lap, Miss Montague closed her eyes; she was very tired. [...] "How much more friendly it is when you cannot see,...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Apr 5, 20221 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #20
(Dag and Fawn are puzzling out Dag's growing healing powers.) "'Imagine ... imagine your muscles all full of knots, pulled and sore and...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Mar 29, 20221 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #19
"We might remember that in 1880 certain men knew that flying-machines could be equipped and rendered safe; but few would listen to them...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Mar 22, 20221 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #18
"If you want to be an artist of any sort ... then handling your frustration is a fundamental aspect of the work -- perhaps the single...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Mar 15, 20222 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #17
(Thirteen-year-old Matey Gilbert has just heard Beethoven's Fifth at a symphony orchestra concert for the first time, after learning it...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Mar 8, 20222 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #16
“She felt great elation, a lonely joy that seemed to make her a part of the quiet world around her. Tears were close to her eyes and...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #15
"The next afternoon, as soon as my last pupil had gone for the day I started for Miss Alice's cabin. She was at home and showed no...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Feb 22, 20221 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #14
"Stripe's hankering for the climbing life worsened. The pillar haunted him. He crawled there regularly, looking up and wondering. "But...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Feb 15, 20222 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #13
"The Dean sat down for a moment on the seat in the lime walk where Isaac had sat, his head bent, too tired to be much aware of the beauty...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Feb 8, 20221 min read
Excerpted Inspirations #12
"One stormy night when Roger was about twenty months old I wrapped him in a blanket and carried him down to the beach in the rainy...
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