Mysticism is...

According to Roethke's notebooks, mysticism is "just prayer; self-surrender to the author of our being." (Foster 12)

Contemplation is...

According to Foster, contemplation is "the mental attitude which permits one to penetrate the secret life of all things." She says this is how Theodore Roethke achieved what he called a "sacramental view of nature." (12)

Borderlands

A blog is a borderland between the public and private life. My other two blogs on teaching and on the being an author fit this description. I hope this blog will deal more with the interior drama of the mind. It will probably take the form of cryptic notes to myself.