tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14189071.post2455695078118133027..comments2023-05-15T06:06:33.543-06:00Comments on Arcol-o-Gist: Hearts Far from the Eartharcolaurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09448256908335690710noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14189071.post-39935852167000111542008-03-13T13:47:00.000-06:002008-03-13T13:47:00.000-06:00Very interesting review. It has been a long time ...Very interesting review. It has been a long time since I read <I>The Grapes of Wrath</I>; I may have to read it again. My daughter read it a year or so ago, well ahead of the time most students would read it, and I think she found it an eye-opener, but inspiring, too.<BR/><BR/>One thought: I hear a lot of criticism of "individualism," but there is something individualistic about Rose of Sharon's offering. It was a gift from one human to another, not through a collective (so many of which become bureaucratic and unwieldy or even malevolent) but directly responding to need. That kind of response is where I see the greatest hope.arcolaurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09448256908335690710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14189071.post-53631109744120746852008-03-12T12:22:00.000-06:002008-03-12T12:22:00.000-06:00Laura,Big Sigh...and yet even in extremis there is...Laura,<BR/><BR/>Big Sigh...<BR/><BR/>and yet even in extremis there is the possibility of hope. Take a look at Rose of Sharon's "offering" to the malnourished man in John Steinbeck's novel: The Grapes of Wrath. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath)<BR/><BR/>I had only finished that wiki review an hour or so ago and then I came across this posting.<BR/><BR/>God bless you, Mother-Prophet. May your words and your milk continue to flow.<BR/><BR/>Even in the depths of darkest winter, spring is irrepressible.<BR/><BR/>TimTim Hodgenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15237942768894057727noreply@blogger.com