There’s no doubt that the world today is going to get interesting. Times like these might be more fascinating to read about in the history books, but no one wants to live through them. I remember being twelve and wanting to live during the tough times that try men’s metal. A dozen years later and … More The Curse of Interesting Times
The Biblical story begins in a garden and ends with a wedding feast. The world is flowing with the tears of the afflicted, from Eve weeping for lost Able, to families suffering loss from the current war in the Ukraine. Everyone must take their own cup of woe. Draining the dregs of sorrow to their … More Go in Rejoicing
You cannot know western history without reading Homer. That’s a bold statement, here’s how it’s backed up; say you wanted to better understand Protestant history. You do not really care about the story of the mythical war with Troy, all you want is to better know your Christian tradition from the 16th century. Why start … More Why Study the Classics
God gave all men all earth to love, But, since our hearts are small Ordained for each, one spot should prove Beloved over all. —Kipling A house did not know me, and I did not know it. Then one day my fiancée and I went to look at it, and we became acquainted. We thought … More A Goodbye
Aeschylus— Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides. Paul Johnson— A History of the American People. Victor Hugo— Les Miserables. Aldous Huxley— Brave New World (2nd reading). John Milton— Paradise Lost. L. M. Montgomery— Anne of Green Gables (3rd reread), Anne of Avonlea (reread), Anne of the Island (5th reread), Rainbow Valley (reread), Rilla … More Books read 📚 2021
The more I read, and reread, Jane Austen’s novels, the more I am struck by the fact that underneath all of their wit, sparkle, and charm, they are about virtue. In Sense and Sensibility there can be traced the value of acting with good sense, justice, and self control, over the more romantic, but far … More Jane Austen’s Mansfield park and the value, and limitations, of a good education.
Let love be true and faithful in your hearts And never leave your hearth and earthly home.May children walk your ways and not depart,But find them sweeter than the honeycomb.When time and chance have rusted all your dreams,And power fails, and feet grow slow by age,Let love endure. Give passion her extremes,Provoke the rush ecstatic … More Sonnet to Jon & Maggie
Love life! The sticky new leaves of spring, Of hidden flowers in the cement, sing. For enough can be found in nature to love, To cause the heart and mind to praise God above. And the desert shall bloom like the rose, And Eden’s reborn where her breath blows. Love life! The changing of tenses … More Love Life! A poem
Nightmare in the city; desert in the plainA falling of Jerusalem, for the guardians are slain.Death, death in the city; tears, tears for the pastFor nothing that’s old seems destined to last.In a riveting world where everything’s newIncluding me and you. Oh, you can have Nietzsche or Augustine, With his ‘Brave New World’ or his … More Nightmare — A Poem
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” said the pigs in Orwell’s brilliant short novel warning of the dangerous ideas that lead to the Russian revolution. You see there was once a prosperous and beautiful farm somewhere in England, and the animals were all owned by a farmer… he was … More The New Revolution
Reflective Wanderer 