L.M. Sacasas on accusations of romanticising the past.
At The Frailest Thing blog, L.M. Sacasas identifies something I’ve often noticed and wish there was a handy word for: Steven Pinker and Jason Hickel have recently engaged in a…
Category: virtue
#AprilCountry , April 24th, “One More River To Cross”, Sons of the Pioneers
Sons of The Pioneers have been going a long time. I am not totally sure if the Spotify and YouTube versions here match … perhaps it is a variance in…
“a curlew cried and in the luminous wind/ A curlew answered” – “Paudeen”, WB Yeats
World Curlew Day has been and gone, but the literature of curlews seems endless. I am reading “Curlew Moon” by Mary Colwell which has been an engrossing read so far…
“the only wisdom within our grasp during our stay in the insoluble mystery of who and where and when we are is the wisdom of humility?”
Comment sections have a bad press, and one can understand when even the most innocuous YouTube video can have all sorts of rabid anger unleashed below. Sometimes, however, comments can…
#AprilCountry, “Satan is Real”, The Louvin Brothers
It would be easy to mock the Louvin Brothers’ “Satan Is Real”, with its lurid and rather literal cover. Easy that is, until you listen to a song of evident…
“Mars Ever Nearer”, John Jay Speredakos – Chaleuer Magazine
I liked this poem by John Jay Speredakos of the recurrent violent reciprocity of conflict and war. Mars Ever Nearer Twenty millennia ago when we made spears, we did…
Henri Nouwen on Passion
From “The Road to Daybreak”: This moment when Jesus is handed over to those who do with him as they please is a turning point in Jesus’ ministry. It is…
Séamus Sweeney 