O Rare Delight! is a mini treasure-house of poems and quotations, centered, like the original text in Christian McEwen's In Praise of Listening: A Gathering of Stories, on taking time to pause, to stop, and to listen. It is a daily reader of prayer and meditation which could serve to practice of lectio divina or "divine reading" in the style of McEwen's small book The Tortoise Diaries: Daily Meditations for Creativity and Slowing Down. Most of us think of listening in a fairly literal fashion: human beings listening (or not listening) to one another; the pleasure of attending to a familiar piece of music. The word derives from the Old English hylsnan, which means, quite simply, "to pay attention." But listening can have a far broader and more capacious meaning, moving out beyond the small apparatus of the ears to the hands or belly or enveloping spirit/mind.