tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post5653120236135405677..comments2023-12-17T16:13:06.670-05:00Comments on In a Godward direction: Brother Louis (Thomas Merton) 12.10Tobias Stanislas Haller BSGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08047429477181560685noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-35483685687399945712011-12-11T15:14:03.127-05:002011-12-11T15:14:03.127-05:00Hi, Mimi, glad you were able to print out a good p...Hi, Mimi, glad you were able to print out a good print. I'm not sure how to get from an account to someone else's public folder. My "id" at Winkflash is "jintoku" so maybe that's how. I'll have to look into that. I'm without full access at the moment. ;-(Tobias Stanislas Haller BSGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08047429477181560685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-15168577102484433592011-12-11T14:30:46.465-05:002011-12-11T14:30:46.465-05:00Tobias, I did the copy on photo quality paper, and...Tobias, I did the copy on photo quality paper, and I have a nice print. Thanks for the link, because after I registered at Winkflash, I could not figure out a way to get to your pictures.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-8056493109452135912011-12-11T09:16:40.356-05:002011-12-11T09:16:40.356-05:00Thanks Mimi, Jim. Br David, Some of my icons are a...Thanks Mimi, Jim. Br David, Some of my icons are available as prints at <a href="http://jintoku.winkflash.com/" rel="nofollow">Winkflash</a>, an online photo printing service, in my public folder. If one of my other icons you like isn't there, just let me know and I'll upload it. You can order mugs, mouse-pads, posters, whatever to promote greater awareness of the saints of God.Tobias Stanislas Haller BSGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08047429477181560685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-76357943004418176932011-12-11T00:11:39.430-05:002011-12-11T00:11:39.430-05:00WinkFlash?WinkFlash?Brother Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06333089314994730330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-57845209251046953682011-12-10T21:28:37.591-05:002011-12-10T21:28:37.591-05:00I think it is a magnificent tribute to a magnific...I think it is a magnificent tribute to a magnificent person. He was and remains a major influence in my life. <br /><br />FWIW<br />jimBJimBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17312606954135884910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-90272808585104811542011-12-10T18:17:08.572-05:002011-12-10T18:17:08.572-05:00Thanks, Tobias. I'm much obliged.Thanks, Tobias. I'm much obliged.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-25813776166254623162011-12-10T18:13:12.622-05:002011-12-10T18:13:12.622-05:00Mimi, I've added a hi-res version of the file ...Mimi, I've added a hi-res version of the file to the Winkflash public account. It looks like the flat-edged wall plaque would produce a nice result. Enjoy! And thanks for asking....Tobias Stanislas Haller BSGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08047429477181560685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-44008091316818141102011-12-10T17:58:24.734-05:002011-12-10T17:58:24.734-05:00Tobias, I've wanted to ask for quite a while, ...Tobias, I've wanted to ask for quite a while, and so I finally did. If you'd like to put the Merton icon on Winkflash, that would be lovely.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-26310129513016337712011-12-10T17:46:42.173-05:002011-12-10T17:46:42.173-05:00Dear Mimi, thanks for posting my icon at your blog...Dear Mimi, thanks for posting my icon at your blog. As to sale... I did do one icon for commission, and am working on another, but apart from that I hadn't thought much about entering the commercial realm. As I write the icons primarily for my own spiritual exercise -- apart from the ones that are commissioned, and even then I hope to reap some spiritual benefit from the work! -- I'd not really thought all that much on those terms. I do make the images available for reproduction via Winkflash, when folks request them.Tobias Stanislas Haller BSGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08047429477181560685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-87082330001502415472011-12-10T17:27:05.613-05:002011-12-10T17:27:05.613-05:00Tobias, are your icons for sale?Tobias, are your icons for sale?June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-40943896708553949082011-12-10T09:49:38.202-05:002011-12-10T09:49:38.202-05:00Thanks, JCF. A man who meant much to many, clearly...Thanks, JCF. A man who meant much to many, clearly...Tobias Stanislas Haller BSGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08047429477181560685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-27496657588327275142011-12-09T21:18:29.939-05:002011-12-09T21:18:29.939-05:00Ooops, I see Mimi quoted the prayer already! :-0 [...Ooops, I see Mimi quoted the prayer already! :-0 ["Wot Mimi Said": I should just repeat that, always. ;-/]JCFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-70727388424270186692011-12-09T21:17:12.595-05:002011-12-09T21:17:12.595-05:00HUGELY influential to me, too.
Even when I first ...HUGELY influential to me, too.<br /><br />Even when I first read 7SM (c. ~age 19), it wasn't uncritically (I cracked up when he said that, in his hindsight, the French peasants out-arguing his *12 year-old self* was proof of their RC faith! ;-X). <br /><br />Nevertheless, the <i>integrity</i> of his faith (both when he was infatuated w/ RCism, and later when the, um, marriage became troubled), have been a bedrock for me, for the <i>language</i> of faith. <br /><br />When I'm in one of my Anglo-Catholic moods, I go back to his 7SM line, "Above all, I wanted to be a good Catholic."<br /><br />And when I'm in one of my WTF moods (more often!), I think of his classic prayer (from "Waters of Siloe", I think?) "My Lord, I do not know where I am going . . . but I trust that the desire to please you DOES in fact please you."<br /><br />Holy Thomas, pray for us (Pray for me!)JCFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-37280998027958726112011-12-09T18:19:22.072-05:002011-12-09T18:19:22.072-05:00Thank you, Mimi. That is a beautiful prayer, and a...Thank you, Mimi. That is a beautiful prayer, and a comfort to me in the past...Tobias Stanislas Haller BSGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08047429477181560685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-30536221460623659802011-12-09T17:49:37.792-05:002011-12-09T17:49:37.792-05:00Tobias, the icon us very fine and plainly from you...Tobias, the icon us very fine and plainly from your heart. Merton was a major influence in my life, too, beginning with <i>The Seven Storey Mountain</i>, on through many of his later books.<br /><br />My faith grew deeper after reading TSSM, the book that he disliked so in his later life. His story was what I needed at the time I read it, either in late high school or early university years.<br /><br />His prayer below remains amongst my favorites.<br /><br /><i>MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.</i><br /><br />- Thomas Merton, "Thoughts in Solitude"June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.com