Name: Mary Kenagy Mitchell
Where you live: Seattle, Washington
What you do as a vocation or avocation? I'm the managing editor if Image (http://www.imagejournal.org/), a journal of art and faith.
Your two favorite books: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson and The Road by Cormac McCarthy. And Great Expectations. And anything by Alice Munro.
Your two favorite songs: "Tower of Song" by Leonard Cohen and "What a Friend We Have in Jesus"
Why you are interested in spirituality? I don't think I could survive without God extending grace to me everyday.
Your favorite quote: "How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not 'the thing with feathers.' The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to see a specialist in Zurich." --Woody Allen
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Your hero? Marilynne Robinson
A spiritual lesson you hope to learn? Patience and humility
A place in the world where you feel spiritually "connected?" At mass, anywhere in the world, in the grandest cathedral or dumpiest suburban church: that's what I love about mass, that it can be anywhere.
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