from spiralling ecstatically this proud nowhere of earth’s most prodigious nightblossoms a newborn babe:around him, eyes-gifted with every keener appetitethan mere unmiracle can quite appease-humbly in their imagined bodies kneel(over time space doom dream while floats the whole perhapsless mystery of paradise) mind without soul may blast some universeto might have been, and stop ten […]
Read moreI love saying “Merry Christmas.” I do. Call me unfeeling. Call me insensitive. Call me politically incorrect. Go ahead. It might be the “merry” part. We never say “merry” about anything else, have you noticed? It’s not “Merry Birthday” or “Merry Easter” or “Merry St. Patrick’s Day.” So offered this one opportunity to say “Merry” […]
Read moreI wrote this a long time ago now. Four+ years, in fact. Time goes faster and faster all the time. Have you noticed, too? But I’m writing here tonight because I want to add some things to that other, referenced above. And I could have added more before now: in the four+ years that have […]
Read moreHe was maybe in his early twenties at the oldest, and he was walking ahead of us out of the grocery store this afternoon. He was walking with a friend, but he was walking ahead of that friend, and he was walking strangely: doing a dance, kind of. Taking sort of mincing steps. Being funny. […]
Read moreI’ve posted something over there on the other blog. You can go read that if you’d like. If you do, read the Other Things, too. You won’t be sorry.
Read moreI spent a good bit of time (a Good Bit– read: more than one hour) trying to improve my blog today. My dear friend Lynne recently re-did hers (complete with family photo: family in matching outfits and looking characteristically themselves while walking down a street somewhere in Shanghai (I’m thinking she should and may use […]
Read moreThe four page (4 Page. Four. Page.) spread in today’s New York Times hails the upcoming Twilight New Moon film as “The Movie Event of the Year.” Hmmm. Don’t misunderstand me. I was taken with the movie Twilight. I didn’t see it in the theater, but Bill and the boys and I watched it this […]
Read moreDo you know it? The love for equals is a human thing– of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and lovely. The world smiles. The love for the less fortunate is a beautiful thing– the love for those who suffer, for those who are poor, the sick, the […]
Read moreI didn’t realize that autumn had arrived in the South. I’ve learned somehow to adjust my expectations, and so wasn’t looking for the change in temperature and leaf until November, really. I had noticed some yellowing here and there, but nothing flagrant, nothing bright. The change was still pending; the change was yet something to […]
Read moreIn the past few days, I have written many pages of comments on my students’ papers, paragraph after paragraph of report card comments, and five (now nearly six) letters of recommendation. My tennis elbow– earned two years ago when I spent every spare minute typing away at my Master’s thesis– has recently (are we surprised?) […]
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