Tag: Poetry

Vision of the Shepherds/At the Manger

.Reading time 18 minutes.

Sections Five and Six of WH Auden’s “For The Time Being.” (FTTB)(For section four: click here) Well, I’ve gotten a bit behind schedule, and so we’ll cover two sections today. But this isn’t bad, really, because it will allow us to continue the compare/contrast of two groups of characters. As you might recall from last […]

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Advent

.Reading time 10 minutes.

SECTION ONE OF WH AUDEN’S “FOR THE TIME BEING” (FTTB) Advent is the season we have just finished —the season the Consumerist Cultural Christmas calls “The Christmas Season.” But, the Christmas season starts on Christmas Day and, like that earworm torture of a song, it does indeed run for twelve days. But to counter that […]

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Beauty Is There Offering Itself

.Reading time 1 minute.

Beauty is there offering itself every day asking nothing not even that you notice the way the light shines through dry grass at sundown or the way shadows lay themselves across some arrangement of sandstone boulders or how the crisp air moves in and out as you climb an upward trail blue mountains to the […]

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“It’s All Music, Eh?”

.Reading time 3 minutes.

I wasn’t a close friend of TR Richie‘s. But we ran in the some of the same circles. And we shared some powerful times with our Coho/Calvin’s friends, especially through Michael and Kendra. I’ve been following TR’s final journey with some interest, as cancer has been taking its toll. Some friends may have seen the […]

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