{"product_id":"graced-resilience-edward-heidt-9781637848173","title":"Graced Resilience","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Ed's account of 1965-1966, we have the advantage of his double vantage point, an artist's sensibilities: Ed, in that year of his letters home to his family, and Ed, reflecting and refracted as he approaches sixty years later as a Basilian and fifty years as a Vatican II priest, outstanding teacher, gifted actor, director, playwright, and friend. As person recursively looking back and forward, the Ed we witness there (now) is also the Ed of \"here\" in the letters, looking back from his nearly sixty-year trajectory made of resilience. In a now-archaic word and a more recent one, both true: edifying and authentic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThank you, Ed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-John Thompson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHave you ever returned to a place that meant a lot to you and you see it and your self's if for the first time? As T. S. Eliot writes so cryptically: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe shall not cease from exploration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd at the end of all our exploring\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill be to arrive where we started\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd know the place for the first time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReliving that year and that place and seeing himself in them as if for the first time, he realized that he experienced it as Ferlinghetti's \"tightrope walker spreadeagled in midair,\" each step and stance taken toward a higher perch and yet with each step and stance he \"constantly risks absurdity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Heidt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 163784817X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781637848173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hawes \u0026amp; Jenkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Edward Heidt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48588498665727,"sku":"9781637848173","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/graced-resilience-edward-heidt-9781637848173","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}