Around here we have a day to get on with, but here's a little potpourri of links for your amusement and edification:
Anthony Esolen on marriage and the maintenance of culture
The Anchoress on John Quincy Adams
Nun-Gazing at The Crescat (which is also hosting an Ugliest Church Art contest)
Cooking with lard at The Common Room
Joe and Micah continue the poetry conversation at First Thoughts
Hear Charles Causley at The Poetry Archive
Kevin McIntyre on Wendell Berry at Front Porch Republic
Regina Doman on washing machines
Finally, sad news from our friends at Redblur Ramblings. Please pray for the repose of Miss Joann's soul. She was a lovely lady, very dear to all our family and especially kind to Epiphany. That she was able to die peacefully in her daughter's home, surrounded and cared for by loving family, comfortably and quietly and in the natural course of things, testifies to a primary but unsung function of the family: to stand with each other at the door between this life and the next, to await its opening, and to see, and pray, each other through. R.I.P.
3 comments:
I trust you noticed, but your post has 10 comments, the next runners-up, 3. So much for silly disparagement of the relevance of poetry. Viva la sestina.
Yes, indeed. Vive la villanelle aussi. So far, in my observation, what people really want to talk about are poetry, video games, and lanyards (though the lanyard comments all got nixed when we changed back over to Wordpress).
Sally,
Thank you so much for the lovely comments about Mother. Caring for her in our home is likely one of the most significant things I've ever done. I just found your post today, and today is precisely the day I needed to find it.
Best always, Susan
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