Thursday, December 25, 2025

A Nativity Sonnet

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I've been posting pieces by the great ones about Christmas. This sonnet is the one I composed this year to go out with my Christmas card...
Friday, December 19, 2025

"The Turn of the Tide" by C. S. Lewis

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The Turn of the Tide By C. S. Lewis Breathless was the air over Bethlehem; black and bare The fields; hard as granite were the clods; Hedges...

"The Nativity" - By C. S. Lewis

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  "The Nativity" by C.S. Lewis Among the oxen (like an ox I’m slow) I see a glory in the stable grow Which, with the ox’s dullness...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

A Remaining Christmas - Belloc

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Since my Tolkien poem is a repeat, here's an original - an Hilaire Belloc essay from 1928.   A Remaining Christmas The world is changing...
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"Noel" by Tolkien (again)

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In 2013 a poem by J. R. R. Tolkien, "Noel", was rediscovered. It was apparently originally published in 1936 in  The Annual of Our...
Thursday, December 04, 2025

Santa Season

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  For the past 20 years, I have been a professional Santa. I used to be a mall Santa, but I left that and now just do a few appearances. My ...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Happy Thanksgiving 2025

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We can be thankful for Chesterton's appreciation for thankfulness and gratitude!  “The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

A Few Clerihews (Waiting?)

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  I just got the most recent issue of Gilbert . I had submitted some clerihews back in October, but they may have gotten there too late for ...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

o god of earth and altar

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Chesterton's Prayer Life?

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  I was involved with a discussion with a Eastern Rite Catholic about some suggested Rosary mysteries. He said he was uneasy about taking su...
Thursday, November 06, 2025

About Politics and Government

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  I just finished reading  John Adams by David McCullough. I see why he won the Pulitzer for this book. In addition to being a good read an...

A Limerick With a Lewis Twist

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  There once was a blogging progressive who judged conservatives too aggressive. He went on the attack and they fired back - isn't Screw...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Saints

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With All Saints and All Souls days this weekend, a look at what Chesterton and Lewis has to say about saints. Chesterton It is better to spe...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Wonder and Pope St. John Paul II

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On September 17, 1978, just before he was elected Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Karol Wojtyla preached a homily at the shrine of Our Lady of C...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Irish Eyes Were Crying

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"The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad." - G. K. Che...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

Lepanto

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October 7 was the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto, which halted expansion by the Ottoman Empire. Yes, It's been posted before, but ...
Thursday, October 02, 2025

St. Francis of Assisi (poem)

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  October 3 is the Feast of the Transitus of St. Francis - the day he actually made the transition from earthly to heavenly life. But as he ...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Good Parenting Advice From O'Connor (and Lewis)

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  I  came across an interesting article by Theresa Civantos Barber over on Aleteia, "Flannery O’Connor’s perfect parenting advice....