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a clean, well-lighted place: 2014-08-17
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A clean, well-lighted place. Poem of Welcome, by Pádraig Ó Tuama. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Just navigating the maze day by day. View my complete profile. Juicing through the summer. Compared to the alchemy of the darkroom, juicing is just raw industrial-grade mechanical work. It's about like mixing darkroom chemicals. You have to d. Daily Deercam: December action. Delight in the Journey. A Mecca of Change. A Texan in Ohio (Or, A Fish Out of Water). Thank You, But I'll Make It Myself. Simple template&#...
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a clean, well-lighted place: 2010-10-24
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A clean, well-lighted place. October 25 is Saints Crispin's and Crispian's Day. Those Protestant-types among us will likely not remember any significance about this day in relation to the aforementioned saints, two shoemaker brothers named Crispin and Crispian; that is unless the Protestant-type in question has ever seen Shakespeare's Henry V and heard the rousing ". StCrispin's Day speech" given by King Henry to his vastly-outnumbered men just prior to the Battle of Agincourt. Shall be my brother; be he...
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a clean, well-lighted place: 2011-07-31
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A clean, well-lighted place. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Just navigating the maze day by day. View my complete profile. Juicing through the summer. Compared to the alchemy of the darkroom, juicing is just raw industrial-grade mechanical work. It's about like mixing darkroom chemicals. You have to d. Daily Deercam: December action. Little buck and doe in heat. He's missing a brow tine. Had to fight during the rut. 2 1/2 year old. He'll be a decent deer next year, but like la. Delight in the Journey.
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a clean, well-lighted place: 2013-04-28
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A clean, well-lighted place. If you give a little love. This video is made of strung together insurance adverts, but I love it just the same. If you give a little love. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Just navigating the maze day by day. View my complete profile. Juicing through the summer. Compared to the alchemy of the darkroom, juicing is just raw industrial-grade mechanical work. It's about like mixing darkroom chemicals. You have to d. Daily Deercam: December action. Delight in the Journey. I know you h...
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a clean, well-lighted place: 2013-10-20
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A clean, well-lighted place. If ever we see those gardens again,. The summer will be gone—at least our summer. Some other mockingbird will concertize. Among the mulberries, and other vines. Will climb the high brick wall to disappear. How many footpaths crossed the old estate—. The gracious acreage of a grander age—. So many trees to kiss or argue under,. And greenery enough for any mood. What pleasure to be sad in such surroundings. At least in retrospect. For even sorrow. 169; Graywolf Press, 2001.
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a clean, well-lighted place: 2011-01-02
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A clean, well-lighted place. I mean, you might as well welcome the new year because being inhospitable to it won't do anything good for you. :o) And that is true of so many things. For instance, you can push hard against whatever you encounter and make it worse, or you can accept it as it is and try to dance with it a little. Dance the dance to the tune that is playing; don't try to make the music fit the steps you have practiced and prepared for because you will be the one who looks silly, not the music.
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a clean, well-lighted place: 2011-04-24
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A clean, well-lighted place. Welcome to the planet. Here we are- four months into 2011, and what have I shown the throngs of people who follow this blog so far? You would think that I have been up to absolutely nada in this world. In truth, I have been terribly busy at work, and haven't been taking part in much of my usual activities, so I have had little worth writing about. That is, unless you count having a beautiful, funny, full-term baby daughter as worth writing about! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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a clean, well-lighted place: 2011-12-18
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A clean, well-lighted place. But there I go, again, weighing this monologue to may way of thinking. I love the way this poem, by Mark Jarman, strips away concepts of God as a thing- idolatrous versions of The Real God- and replaces that with the Truth that God is NO-THING, and therefore beyond concepts of God. Jesus is as close as we can get (I believe), and we pretty much mess Him up, too, and use Him in ungodly ways (and there I go yet again! I swiped it from Steph Drury's blog Get your adverbs here.
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a clean, well-lighted place: 2012-04-08
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A clean, well-lighted place. Tyler, TX and fog. Driving the old, brick streets downtown. The fog makes you look at everyday things in a whole new way. Marvin UMC in the morning fog. Looking West down Erwin Street. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Just navigating the maze day by day. View my complete profile. Juicing through the summer. Compared to the alchemy of the darkroom, juicing is just raw industrial-grade mechanical work. It's about like mixing darkroom chemicals. You have to d. Delight in the Journey.
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a clean, well-lighted place: 2011-11-06
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A clean, well-lighted place. Sorry I Never Listened, Dad. The poem in such a way seemed silly to me, especially when I tried to express its perfection to my friend, Nicole. I felt like I was rambling on and on about how much stuff Wal-Mart stocked, or something. Still, that poem is amazing, which is why everyone has already read it. What is still baffling, though, is why I didn't "get it" the first time I encountered it. Was I not ready at 19 to feel that poem? Is that we are supposed to be in this prese...
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