The Enduring Legacy of the Spanish Mystics - First Things

The Enduring Legacy of the Spanish Mystics - First Things

Last autumn, I spent a few days at my family’s coastal country house in northwestern Spain. The vast stretches of farmland were overflowing with corn and fruit orchards. Here, in the house where I spent all the summers of my childhood, everything goes slowly; silence reigns far from the highway that crosses the north of Spain from east to west. The smell of furniture bent by humidity and the passage of time encourages reading and contemplation. …