Monday
Jul282008
Letters 2, Day 5
Monday, July 28, 2008 at 05:17PM 
Spent the day writing for Letters 2. An incredibly rich day. A friend loaned me a book last week and he read this paragraph aloud to me as he did so, and it's very deeply informed my writing today.
"I have come to believe that by and large the human family all has the same secrets, which are both very telling and very important to tell. They are telling in the sense that they tell what is perhaps the central paradox of our condition - that what we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else."
- Frederick Buechner (from the book Telling Secrets)
Reader Comments (5)
love that paragraph...i can see how it could be inspiring.
Looks like you've got alot of letters to edit...can't wait to see the final product!
That is my absolute favorite Frederick Buechner book! Probably in my five favorite books ever!
I am quite excited to hear the new project.
Great Buechner quote, I know it perfectly describes me, knowing my own depravity, but yet trying my very best to hide it due to fear of judgment. The more of Buechner I read the more I love him, but by far Godric is his best work.
hey- I finally checked out Andy Gullahorn and I really like his stuff! Thanks for the suggestion.