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Tag Archives: Thomas Traherne

The Tree with Lights in it: Mystical Encounters with Trees

Posted on May 7, 2020May 16, 2020 by Mike Mason

Annie Dillard, in her radiant book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, tells of a girl blind from birth who had an operation which restored her sight. When the bandages were removed and she was led into the garden, she saw what she described as “the tree with the lights in it.”

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Thomas Traherne: Apostle of Joy

Posted on April 23, 2020May 13, 2020 by Mike Mason

Lately I’ve been savoring Thomas Traherne’s book Centuries of Meditations, in a wonderful contemporary edition by David Buresh called Waking Up in Heaven. I heartily agree with what C.S. Lewis wrote about this book, calling it “almost the most beautiful book in the English language. I could go on quoting from it forever.”

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