February 2013
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July 2012
3 posts
March 2012
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“For many … strategies for involvement in the community are based on a...”
– John M. Perkins, A Quiet Revolution
October 2011
3 posts
September 2011
8 posts
“Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with...”
– Gerard Manley Hopkins “God’s Grandeur”
2 tags
August 2011
2 posts
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
6 posts
lookhowitsounds:
here are four 30 second love...
“The eyes open to a cry of pulleys,
And spirited from sleep, the astounded...”
– “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” by Richard Wilbur
June First
Bat houses. Tomato trellises. The Freedom Riders. That behavior was still acceptable in the 1960‘s? My gnarly fingers riddled with scabs and teeth marks. Better writing habits. My four-month-old falling asleep in the sling. Slobber. The impulse to drink stovetop espresso at 9pm on a weeknight. Eating from the tree of the knowledge that my attention span is splintering. Who really cares...
May 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
3 posts
February 2011
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January 2011
11 posts
“How frugal educated—and uneducated—people have become regarding...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
December 2010
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November 2010
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October 2010
2 posts
Autumn Day
Lord, it is time. The summer was too long.
Lay now thy shadow over the sundials,
and on the meadows let the winds blow strong.
Bid the last fruit to ripen on the vine;
allow them still two friendly southern days
to bring them to perfection and to force
the final sweetness in the heavy wine.
Who has no house now will not build him one.
Who is alone now will be long alone,
will waken,...
September 2010
2 posts
7 tags
A conversation with, you know, Autumn
Ah,… Autumn. Arriving this weekend, without pretense.
There were complaints about why you’re so slow and, periodically a, “Finally!”
I know.
Equinox only happened a few days ago. By the calendar’s measure, you are relatively punctual.
Why do I romance you so? Why do I pull out volumes of poets like Hopkins and Wilbur audibly reciting? Why do I open windows and hear, as if it were,...
“Merton once told me to quit trying so hard in prayer. He said: “How does...”
– James Finley Merton’s Palace of Nowhere
The Wilderness Downtown →
For any Arcade Fire fans out there, this site creates an amazing visual to “We Used To Wait” from the new album “The Suburbs.”
