Lord’s Day, August 5, 2012

Arts and Music, Poetry 1 Minute
  1. The Real Work, a poem by St. Wendell of Lane’s Landing.
  2. Freedom to say No, a quote from St. Flannery of Milledgeville.
  3. Southern Writers.

1

A poem by Wendell Berry at The Writer’s Almanac, along with credulous, ultra-liberal misrepresentations of Barack Obama’s biography, starting with his place of purported birth on the occasion of his purported birthday. 😉

2

There is nothing in our faith that implies a foregone optimism for man so free that with his last breath he can say No.

Flannery O’Connor

3

Whenever I’m asked why Southern Writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it’s because we’re still able to recognize one.

Something that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern Reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.

Flannery O’Connor (All three quotes from Daily Flannery)

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Some succinct standing advice on recurring themes.

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