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The Tantrum

January 31, 2009

Struck with grief you were, though only four, The day your mother cut her mermaid hair And stood, a stranger, smiling at the door. They frowned, tsk-tsked your willful, cruel despair, When you slunk beneath the long piano strings And sobbed until your lungs hiccupped for air, Unbribable with curses, cake, playthings. You mourned a [...]

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Items of Interest: To Exist All That Is

January 14, 2009

Good morning friends. A few items of interest today, and a poem by Csezlaw Milosz. BARNA, the research group providing the best statistical insights into faith in America today, has a new report detailing how Christianity is no longer America’s “default religion.” Over at The Public Discourse, the Acton Institute’s Samuel Gregg writes on Keynes, [...]

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A Poem for the New Year

December 30, 2008

To the Holy Spirit O living Spirit, O falling of God-dew, O Grace which dost console us and renew, O vital light, O breath of angelhood, O generous ministration of things good, Creator of the visible, and best Upholder of the great unmanifest Power infinitely wise, new boon sublime Of science and of art, constraining [...]

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