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Call-and-Response to Merton’s RainText: ‘The Beautifully Ordinary’

Every week, unexpected messages fly over my transom, many from stranger-friends who have read something I’ve sent into the world via Improvised Life, in a kind of call-and-response. Like this illuminating beauty from Katherine Davich, a powerful spill of rain memory sparked by Thomas Merton’s RainText.

Reminder: Where Good Ideas Can Come From

Where Do Ideas Come From? is a video that features vastly different answers to the question from some seriously creative people, from David Lynch, Susan Orlean and Chuck Close to a couple of kids.

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