I also have celebrated his interpretation of Dorothy Day: Don't Call Me a Saint.
Shortly after Jean Vanier passed from this life into life after lasting, an icon of his spirituality appeared - but I didn't know it was from Latimore:
And now I find that he has created an on-going series including Frederick Douglas, Maya Angelou, Thomas Merton, Transgendered Woman, Pops Staples, Mary Oliver, Mother of God: Protectress of the Oppressed and so many more. (Please go to: https:// kellylatimoreicons.com) While his style is different, I am reminded of the icons painted by Robert Lentz.
Like Mary Oliver's poetry, these icons move me both in their simplicity as well as their respectful bending of the rules of tradition: there is an intentional tender wisdom in them that touches my heart. She put it like this in "Wild Geese."
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
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