Thursday, August 28, 2025

Maybe Somebody Should Have Put Baby In A Corner

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A Grace by G. K. Chesterton You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the play and the opera, And grace before the conce...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

On Vacation, So Quotations!

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I'm on vacation this week, with wife and dog at a cottage as a base from which to venture forth to see the sights. So just a few quotati...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

What Tolkien Can Teach Us About the Creative Life

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  "Beyond his much-beloved books,  The Hobbit,   The Lord of the Rings,  and  The Silmarillion,  J. R. R. Tolkien was a poet, philologi...
Friday, August 08, 2025

Saint Tolkien

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  August 8, 2025 Perhaps I may say also now (as I have meant to do for some time) that though I only briefly thanked Austin [one of the corr...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

In the News (Two Clerihews)

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  Two people in the news lately inspired clerihews, Ozzy Osbourne and Syndey Sweeney.. Ozzy Osbourne was by water borne to the Alamo where h...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Carter vs Scranton Joe (Clerihew)

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  Good Jimmy Carter, when it comes to presidents was one of the smarter. Historians rank his presidency pretty low, but it’s looking better ...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

More Housekeeping

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Four weeks ago I looked at the Blogs to which this blog linked. I found that many of them are no longer active. Today I checked the other li...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

Peter Maurin, G. K. Chesterton, and Hilaire Belloc

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Peter Maurin was a social activist and theologian, and a co-founder (with Dorothy Day) of the Catholic Worker movement. In his thinking he w...
Thursday, July 03, 2025

Joining Some Inklings Fan Groups

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I was continuing my look at some of the blogs and pages to which this blog is linked when I came across ones about C. S. Lewis and the Inkli...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Did He, Or Didn't He?

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  A page on Facebook posted the following meme: Being a trusting sort, I reposted it. Yikes. I got jumped on by multiple people claiming he ...
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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Blogging Buddies Go Bye-Bye

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  Back when I started contributing to this blog there was a team that posted multiple times a week. There were also a number of other blogs ...
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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Three Clerihews

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Three of my clerihews made it in to the latest issue of Gilbert : T. S. Eliot was not appreciated by the proletariat. "Those new-fangle...
Thursday, June 05, 2025

Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa - and Tolkien

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A tidbit gleaned from Holly Ordway's  Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography.   In 1960, Tolkien was contacted about about writing o...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Tolkien and Anti-Semitism

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  The sin of anti-Semitism has been in the news lately. It was also a prominent issue during the life of J.R. R. Tolkien as he watched with ...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Shadowlands

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  Every month, our parish has a movie night. Our pastor, who is a film buff, shows a movie that has moral/religious themes. We view the movi...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Saint Tolkien?

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  I know there has been discussion of the G. K. Chesterton's canonization - though that seems to have stalled for now. But now I'm s...
Thursday, May 08, 2025

The Surprise

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I just finished reading Chesterton's The Surprise .  It was his final play, written in 1932, but it was not published or performed durin...
Thursday, May 01, 2025

A C. S. Lewis Poem

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I have long been a fan of C. S. Lewis. I read his fiction, his fantasies, his essays, his theological works, his talks, and others his prose...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Come Rack! Come Rope!

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Our local Chesterton Academy did a production of  Come Rack! Come Rope! The play is an adaptation by Dale Ahlquist and Adrian Ahlquist of t...