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Excuses & Apologies
Tags: UncategorizedIf this is pinned, it’s got new information Hi there! I haven’t given up blogging the lectionary, I’ve just fallen behind. Overwhelm is real and threatening to morph into depression. I will still write the missing post later this week. Be well, –Elaine
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Hope has teeth.
Tags: UncategorizedYeah, yeah, I misquoted Dickinson. (She wrote, “Hope is the thing with feathers,” not “Hope’s the thing…”) But this is a meme I made a while back that isn’t really a meme because it’s not meming, but it does seem, unfortunately, to be evergreen: Feel free to use it if you like, though.
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City Centre
Tags: UncategorizedA poem from Call and Response II Streets keep turning upwhere they shouldn’t—unlessmy map’s the wrong way ‘round.It’s useless, anyway; streets hereare unlabeled. (Well,why should they be laden with names?) Back somewhere, the canals misplaced me.Behind them, I’d lost myself in Roman ruins. I’m six time zones offfrom my internal map,with no time to re-center,…
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40
Welcome to the new iteration of my blog! I’ve decided the next few posts will be poems of mine that have been published in some form elsewhere (with links, where possible, to the elsewhere) along with a little discussion about the poem. Today’s poem is “40.” It’s “published” as a song, actually, by Optimist Park…
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Full Circle
Today is the second and last time this century that Good Friday and the Feast of the Annunciation fall on the same day. Historically, though, they’re linked. In the earliest centuries of the Church, the death and resurrection of Christ were observed, but Christ’s birth was not. However, the symbolic value of placing Christ’s conception…
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Merry Christmas! God is with us!
Gaudete! Christus natus est! Alleluia! Tonight God’s purpose in creation is fulfilled. I love this gaudily-colored painting from the reredos of one of the side-chapels in my church. Christ is born, and everybody, human and otherwise, has shown up to celebrate! I’m reminded of a phrase from the requiem Mass (quoting from the Psalms): Ad te…
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Ruinenlust—Taking pleasure in ruins
Tags: UncategorizedThis post is adapted from one of my comprehensive exams in my doctoral program. What does it mean to take pleasure in ruins? There’s a German name for it: ruinenlust. It turns out this is pretty much a European (and European-American) phenomenon, born out of a Romantic sensibility—that is to say, it’s relatively recent. Taking…
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