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Season’s books and eponymous poem
Good grief, I almost forgot to re-post the eponymous poem! I received a volume of Rowan Williams poetry for Christmas, and have been distracted by that. His “Flight Path” in that volume reminds me of some of the haunting ‘walking dead’ scenes from the Justin Kurzel film of Macbeth that we saw on Boxing Day.…
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Dismissed
My favorite person at my sending parish died last week, and her funeral was today. The daughter, sister, and mother of Episcopal priests, she was my most ardent supporter in my sometimes slow and halting progress towards postulancy and (D.v.) ordination. I sat with her every week in church, and we spent hours and hours…
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Christmas family research
A mother of four living apparently living apart from her husband and working as a dressmaker in Muirhead, Minnesota, a young couple in a coal-miners’ neighborhood in King County, Washington with a female Swedish lodger, an older couple in the same county with eleven surviving children, a stenographer and his wife in Leavenworth, Kansas, a…
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Living in Our New Village
It can be great fun to discover connections among the different little sections of one’s life. For several weeks I have been acting as an editorial “mid-wife” as a friend writes a paper that he will present at a scholarly conference in Serbia this week. The conference is put on by the Ecclesiological Investigations…
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Psalm 16:6
My boundaries enclose a pleasant land; indeed, I have a goodly heritage. One of my original thoughts for the use of this space was to collect scraps of thought, epiphanies, and meditations coming out of lectio divina. I haven’t really gotten off the ground with that idea, although I have those sorts of things…
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Eponymous poem….
Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree, Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes — Some have got broken — and carrying them up to the attic. The holly and the mistletoe must be taken down and burnt, And the children got ready for school. There are enough Left-overs to…