The following is one of a series of attached photos sent from Liza to the group during her electronics-limited "dispersed camping expedition" through the Keweenaw Peninsula during the month of August 2015. We will publish short excerpts of these illuminated texts over the course of the next several days along with a corresponding portion of the original photo.
The best way is to read the text, of course, is to to experience it illuminated and in its entirety, following Liza's directions.
Dorothy Day-ly Intentions:
"Don't worry about being effective, just concentrate on being faithful to the truth." - The Long Loneliness
"The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up." - Interview with Time '75
"If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God." - The Catholic Worker
"Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington." - The Catholic Worker
Though Dorothy possessed the art of human contact, her autobiography is The Long Loneliness. All of us, she believed, have a yearning for love; deep down, buried beneath the clutter of our days, there was in every person the longing for community. But there was a loneliness that persisted even in the midst of other, the essential isolation that belonged to any commitment or vocation. There was a kind of loneliness, to which Christ invited his friends. Yet of his long loneliness, whe wrote in the words of Mary Ward, an 11th-century English nun, "The pain is very great, but very endurable, for he who lays on the burden also carries it."
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