Poetry
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Prayer Poetry
I’ve been tuned into the discussion about ChatGPT in recent weeks, wondering what the impact will be of unleashing such a powerful chatbot in the academic, creative, and professional realms. But in one…
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Easter
This week, I’ve been reflecting on John Updike’s poem “Seven Stanzas at Easter.” It fits well with my other reading of Pearcey and Schaeffer lately, because it emphasizes the historicity and physicality of…
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Tears talking
I have a dream from time to time. I’m supposed to be playing the piano on a worship team, but I can’t find my music. I search and search, and meanwhile the rest…
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Loading brush, and taking the measure
Andy is forced to question the worth of the advocacy that has so occupied him and his friends for so long. He knows that their advocacy has virtually no standing with professors, intellectuals,…
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Coloring the world
This is what the outside world looks like. The sky in this picture is blue! But other than that, the landscape is largely colorless. It’s also bitingly cold. So inside, we’ve returned to…
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Mortimer Minute
Ruth at There Is No Such Thing as a God-forsaken Town tagged me for the Mortimer Minute. Here are the rules: 1) Make up three questions you’ve always wanted to be asked in…
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23rd Psalm, Godric-style
Elric had studied with the monks. He knew the gospels back and forth. He had the Psalms by heart… He sang in Latin, but, for me, he put them into speech I understood.…
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Poetry Friday: Goldfinch
I’m joining in on Poetry Friday this week with a poem found in our ancient copy of Bookhouse Story Time. The poem is a tribute to goldfinches, which abound in our yard this…
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Lady of Shalott
This week, Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” was on my 6th grader’s reading list. She read it, then last night I read it aloud to both girls and basically we all registered our…
