Emily Dickinson

The essayist playfully contrasts the apocalyptic, fundamentalist worldviews of her childhood with the teeming abundance of life that she found later.

Before the beloved poet tended words, she tended the earth.

A literary look at the walls that protect us—and keep us captive

To meet others as God meets us—prickly and imprecise and difficult though we may sometimes be—is a kind of grace.