6:15am
Just had a hiccup in the WordPress app on the iPad. It took an old post and published it instead of the one I edited. Good thing I subscribed to myself and was able to cut and paste it back using the browser for Monday. But then when I went back to the app and refreshed and saw two Monday posts, the deleted one magically appeared and two versions showed up. Not sure what happened, but at least it’s fine now.
Manfred woke me up at 5 and decided to get up and feed them and make some coffee. Tido had some can food and moments later, he threw up. I should know better than give him too much. Made coffee and when Leo took benny for his walk, I brought the coffee back to bed and tried to catch some thoughts from reading Griffin’s Ecstasy last night. I was too lazy to reach and get the iPad when thoughts hit me and now it will be hard to catch all of them again.
Read till almost two. The reading was good and it was about the love affair between Merton and his nurse Margie Smith. In Griffins own journal, he talked about the decision to include this in the biography and said he would use Merton’s own words for the story. He did and it was very honest and filled with conflicts between desire and conscience. The emotions in a love affair can be strong and irrational in the beginning for lay people, it can be devastating for a monk who has been kept away from women for over 25 years. He was human and it was hard to escape the human feelings. But he did manage to control the urges and desire and went back to the hermit life. And that must have taken a very strong resolve and self discipline. And the grace from God.
