- The song I can’t get out of my head Monday.
- Embarrassment, not national security.
- Another reason I’m glad for the free exercise clause.
- TC’s hopping.
- Writers Almanac on a roll.
- Hiatus
Category: Poetry
Tasty Tidbits 7/16/11
Here’s some Tasty Tidbits du jour:
- Morality as heresy?!
- Sola Potatoes.
- The invisible elephant in the room.
- There oughta be a(nother) law.
- “This is a nation where no lovely thing can last.”
- Cat fight coming?
- The rehabilitation of Rupert.
- Keep your eye on SSRN, and don’t be put off by the homely exterior
Tipsy Teetotaler’s Tasty Tidbits 7/4/11
Here’s Tipsy Teetotaler’s Tasty Tidbits for the day:
- Rights Talk in America.
- Neither Red nor Blue (nor White)
- Apostasy in Islamdom.
- Apostasy (from liberal orthodoxy) in Moscow.
- What’s next for marriage? (Sigh!)
- The non-story that keeps on giving.
- Would this needlework be intelligible today?
- A glimpse into the American Soul — and into a Christian soul. Continue reading “Tipsy Teetotaler’s Tasty Tidbits 7/4/11”
Tasty Tidbits 6/28/11
Here’s today’s tasty tidbits, concurrently Tweeted and Facebooked:
Sen. Lugar reportedly will unload on Obama today regarding Libya. Good for him! But the Hoosier blogosphere will be all atwitter with navel-gazing about how this is a “move to the right” to fight off challenger Richard Mourdock.
Memo to myself
You didn’t figure it out for 48 years
and then it took a few more years to figure out
that figuring it out wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.
So have patience, old man
with all the young whippersnappers of the world.
Either they aren’t idiots
or you were an idiot, too.
The Summons of the Star
Father Jonathan Tobias at the Second Terrace blog appears to appreciate Auden’s For the Time Being, too. Here, he quotes and comments on passages that I savored, but that I don’t think I passed along or commented on earlier this Nativity season: Continue reading “The Summons of the Star”
Simeon
From W. H. Auden’s For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio, musings of the Righteous Simeon, who held the Christ child at the temple and then prayed the Nunc Dimitis: “Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy word; for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation, which Thou hast prepared before the face of all people, a light to enlighten the gentiles, and the glory of Thy people, Israel. Continue reading “Simeon”
Inflict Thy promises …
From W. H. Auden’s For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio, excerpts from further into the poem than prior days’ excerpts:
The Star and the Wise Men
From W. H. Auden’s For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio, excerpts from a section on The Nativity Star and the Three Wise Men: Continue reading “The Star and the Wise Men”
Annunciation
From W. H. Auden’s For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio, excerpts from a section on the Annunciation. This is not a hack writing sentimental doggerel; the poetry deeply probes this foundational mystery of the Faith, and the indispensable role a young Jewish maiden, with terror and rejoicing, played in our redemption.
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