‘Heathen’ was inspired into life as a Contemplify Musing after reading Chris Dombrowski’s The River You Touch in tandem with the Gospels. ‘Heathen’ is the river I swim in with Jesus. Written out on scraps of lists, receipts, and other trash-bound paper. I apologize there is no transcription here. photo by Contemplify
Tag: Chris Dombrowski
The River You Touch with Chris Dombrowski
“You won’t soon read a more beautiful book, nor one so earthy, wise, delicious, and alive. This is not a book about fish or rivers or Montana or parenting. This is a book, to paraphrase another poet, plain and simple, to break open the frozen sea within.” —Rick Bass I have been waiting years to have this conversation with author, poet, and fly-fishing guide Chris Dombrowski. There is a kinship I feel with Chris’s lens on life. He is a top-shelf writer to boot. The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water comes out October 11th, 2022. I …
Backporch Advent Outpost with Chris Dombrowski (#2)
“Ragged Anthem, a soulful book of longing that is as comic as it is reflective. These poems sing of humankind in need of something it can only seem to get from the natural world, and of how we won’t get it until we begin to understand ourselves as natural as any tree or river.” – Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition Backporch Advent Outpost with Chris Dombrowski (#2) Blessed Darkness and Blessed Light this Advent season. Here we are again, in the midst of Season Two of Contemplify, and I am sliding in another bonus episode as part of the 2nd …