Morning Reading

Here's what I'm reading these days in the morning before I get ready for work (and after reading the Atlanta Journal-Constitution):

- Forward Day by Day, the Episcopal daily devotional booklet (written this month, though they never announce the writers, by the Dean of St. Philip's Cathedral in Atlanta)

- Celtic Daily Prayer, a breviary. I have been reading Phyllis Tickle's "Praying the Hours" for Summer, but decided to switch for a while

- A Year with Thomas Merton, with daily selections from his writings

- Things Seen and Unseen by Nora Gallagher, her wonderful memoir of a year in the community of an Episcopal church in Santa Barbara, California

- Sometimes I also read a bit from The Shark God, by Charles Montgomery, a travel journalist who retraces his great grandfather's steps in the South Pacific islands (he was an Anglican missionary)--fascinating and beautifully written

- I also usually read a few pages from the latest Krazy and Ignatz comic strip collection from Fantagraphics, just for fun