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Rained gently last night, just enough to wash the town clean, and then today a clean crisp fat spring day, the air redolent, the kind of green minty succulent air you'd bottle if you could and snort g...

Brian Doyle

Rained gently last night, just enough to wash the town clean, and then today a clean crisp fat spring day, the air redolent, the kind of green minty succulent air you'd bottle if you could and snort g...

Tags: cleansed, crisp, green, mink river, minty, rain

But simple as the Sign of the Cross is, it carries a brave weight: it names the Trinity, celebrates the Creator, and brings home all the power of faith to the brush of fingers on skin and bone and bel...

Brian Doyle

But simple as the Sign of the Cross is, it carries a brave weight: it names the Trinity, celebrates the Creator, and brings home all the power of faith to the brush of fingers on skin and bone and bel...

Tags: catholic, catholicism, christ, christian, christianity, creator, cross, faith, god, god s love

About Author
Brian Doyle may refer to:

Brian J. Doyle (born 1950), former press secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security
Brian Doyle (baseball) (born 1954), former Major League Baseball infielder
Brian Doyle (Canadian writer) (born 1935), Canadian writer
Brian Doyle (rower) (1930–2008), Australian rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics
Brian Doyle (footballer) (1930–1992), footballer and manager
Brian Doyle (Wexford hurler) (born 1991), Irish hurler for Shelmaliers and Wexford
Brian Doyle (Carlow hurler) (born 1989), Irish hurler for Erin's Own and Carlow
Brian Andre Doyle (1911–2004), Solicitor-General of Fiji, 1948–1951
Brian Doyle (rugby union) (born 1984), American rugby union player
Brian Doyle (American writer) (1956–2017), American writer and editor of Portland Magazine
Brian Doyle, Canadian criminal convicted for the murder of Catherine Carroll

These things matter to me, Daniel, says the man with six days to live. They are sitting on the porch in the last light. These things matter to me, son. The way the hawks huddle their shoulders angrily...

Brian Doyle

These things matter to me, Daniel, says the man with six days to live. They are sitting on the porch in the last light. These things matter to me, son. The way the hawks huddle their shoulders angrily...

Edward believes that all religions are cousins at heart and begin in the right spirit but then they are corrupted by the desire for power.

Brian Doyle

Edward believes that all religions are cousins at heart and begin in the right spirit but then they are corrupted by the desire for power.

Tags: religion

You cannot edit your life, and even if I was today offered the chance to never meet her, and so not leave the city I loved, I would decline, for life is a verb, life swerves and lurches no matter how...

Brian Doyle

You cannot edit your life, and even if I was today offered the chance to never meet her, and so not leave the city I loved, I would decline, for life is a verb, life swerves and lurches no matter how...

Tags: life lessons

But we [writers] are crucial. That is what I hope you have learned. We listen for and collect and share stories. Without stories there is no nation and no religion and no culture. Without stories of b...

Brian Doyle

But we [writers] are crucial. That is what I hope you have learned. We listen for and collect and share stories. Without stories there is no nation and no religion and no culture. Without stories of b...

Tags: chicago, stories, writing

... We would be foolish to say of Miss Moss, for example, that the words female and store owner and tall and thirtyish and kindly an unmarried describe much of real substance about her, isn't that so?...

Brian Doyle

... We would be foolish to say of Miss Moss, for example, that the words female and store owner and tall and thirtyish and kindly an unmarried describe much of real substance about her, isn't that so?...

Tags: stories

On a clear day the Oregon coast is the most beautiful place on earth—clear and crisp and clean, a rich green in the land and a bright blue in the sky, the air fat and salty and bracing, the ocean spre...

Brian Doyle

On a clear day the Oregon coast is the most beautiful place on earth—clear and crisp and clean, a rich green in the land and a bright blue in the sky, the air fat and salty and bracing, the ocean spre...