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Journey: all 3 (F,M,M) ended

Owen Merton: Vocation art
Mother: Perfection art, interior

decoration, dancing, housekeeping

Baptism in Prades: Dads idea

Veneration,

of intellectual perfection)
Easter Sunday 1920 Merton
the birds are in their church. Why

Cloisters
WAR the allies overcoming the
leave Prades), 1 y.o.
Grandmother (Bonnemaman)

American, buoyant and excitable

New House Long Island; cheap,

countryside
Mom & Dad painted (hills)

dont we go to church? (Dad: we

will. No some other Sunday)

Education
progressing

by

method in magazines (mom) 5 Y.O.

Geography Greek Heroes

Greek Myths I unconsciously
built up the vague fragments of a
religion and of a philosophy which
remained hidden and implicit in my

acts (p. 6 of 97)

Happy Consummation thing
most grateful for and praise God;

Father could not support us by

ultimate paradoxical fulfillment of

painting. *War years landscape

mothers ideas
Will neutral, undirected, force

gardener (manual labor)

1918 John Paul (brother) was

waiting to be applied, ready to

generate powers, conflict, love or

born; serener nature & constant

any

freedom
Monasteries reverence (clean,

hatred of activity& Pops

considered

in

wanted to go but they didnt. all

Natural deliberateness, hesistant,

(mom

church

the warping of my essential

German (they knew they had to

Love;

organized religion below standard

ancient stone cloisters) The

and

him the Lords prayer

We never went to
Flushing.

think there was much power in the

Awe,

teacher; salt in oatmeal taught

(deep well-developed faith, I dont

waters of my baptism to untwist

NZ Grandmother Impression:

and unruffled happiness

Jack imaginary friend (imaginary

sin
Moral

Universe

Merton

dog Doolittle) ; result of no friends

entering; drag one another towards

(diversion, not good thing)

Mother diary
1920 read, write and draw

some common end (good or evil/

(boats,
seagulls

oceanliners,

waves,

peace or war)
Quakers sit around and holy
spirit would move them (dad got a
job in the church; played the organ)

*It was a law of mant nature,

Dad did not have to do anything

but paint.
Chocolate largesse; candy has

always been rationed.

Truro name as lonely as the

edge of the sea

Geography has become a reality
Bermuda curious island, out

written into his very essence,

and just as much a part of him
as the desire to build houses
and

cultivate

the

land

and

marry and have children and

read books and sing song that
he

should

together
order

to

want

with

to

other

of new york; small boat called

stand
men

acknowledge

in

their

school or not, live together or

common dependence on God,

their

Father

desire

much

and

Creator.

fundamental

than

punished for my complete

inability to grasp the principles

III
Mother had stomach cancer

shaped like the head of Minerva

money) to avoid child

with a helmet
Father painted, sold, and used

to the hospital to see her (her

cash to sail to France and left

idea)
Moved to GPs house. Mom

Merton in America

wrote him a letter that she was

of multiplication and division

Worship one of the clouds;

(Chief reason why they needed

morbidity, he was never taken

not natural
I was going to a local school for
white children I was constantly

purely physical

Fort Victoria
Constant Change (worthy);

about to die. perplexity, adult

Setting: Pops office; live-wire

grief didnt pray at 6 y.o., but

nervous energy; writer for

20 yrs later
Cremation

Grosset and Dunlap

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