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National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month! Here’s Billy Collins reading his poem, “Litany,” which I really enjoyed. (H.T. [Hat Tip] to Steve McCoy, who turned me on to Billy Collins and National Poetry Month last year. He’ll be blogging on poetry all month, so check out his blog.)
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
I’m about to head out on a Valentine’s Day date, but I wanted to wish you all a happy V-day first.
Here’s my mom – “Grandma Pam” – with one of her Valentines on Christmas Eve.
And on a romantic note, here’s Pierce Pettis with “Song of Songs” (Note: There is some mild discussion here of the [...]
O Holy Night
Brother Maynard is part of a group of bloggers who are blogging through Advent this year, and I’ve been reading along a bit when I have time (which isn’t all that often). A recent post caught my eye – it’s a look at “O Holy Night” as an Advent carol. He writes:
The carol I’ve selected [...]
Nine Years and Counting!
Wow! Nine years ago Athena married me — isn’t she cute? The photo above is from over three and a half years ago — she may not look it, but Athena was eight months pregnant with Josiah.
In honor of my anniversary, here’s a bit of poetry for you, from a song I’ve been enjoying recently; [...]
Mother’s Day
Our local paper, the Tri-City Herald, had a sweet story today with seven vignettes focusing on the mothers in seven families. What made the story especially good were the photographs.
The front page picture of a mother kissing her baby boy caught my eye; a bit fuzzy and featuring some heavy vignetting (darkened corners), it looked [...]
A Princess…
My older son has been watching Max and Ruby lately. Yesterday, he and his cousin watched an episode where Ruby (a rabbit, if you’re not familiar with the show) and her friend dress up as princesses.
Shortly after the show was over, I gave Josiah a piggyback ride down the hall, and stopped at the wedding [...]
Virginia Tech
In the wake of a tragedy like this, Bob Hyatt has what I think is a very good response for how to think about events like the shootings. It made me think. I’ll quote part of it:
So, again… not much to say. I think I try NOT to think about things like this… I know [...]
Poetry
I’m afraid I haven’t been shooting lately — over the weekend I’ve been recovering from minor surgery and so I’ve been doing a lot of reading. I’ve never been great at writing poems, though I do enjoy reading them. It turns out that April is National Poetry Month, and so I have a few to [...]
My Favorite Vegetables…
Phil has a long (11 posts!) story about the collapse of his dream, and what he’s learned through all of this. At the end of the LONG story, he writes, “A dream is a powerful thing. There is little more thrilling than seeing a dream come to life. And little more heartbreaking than watching it die.”
