Her best friends turned her tune meant for fun To a dirge with two twists on one tongue. Finding what they were after, She choked on their laughter And coughed up her voice ever on.
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Thoughts on Sara Bareilles’ “Blessed Unrest”
I like Adele Adkins well enough. Better than that, really. I thought her “21” album deserved every accolade it received. It’s a wonderful album, varied, soulful and bursting with heart. I have wondered how I would feel about her “25” if it had been the first of the two. It’s a fine album, more than Read More …
Cheeky or not, a little #Thanks goes a long way
Read at Daily Herald website Should you thank the person who handed you your pre-commute latte this morning for getting up early on your behalf? Should we thank the mechanic we paid to change the oil in our car? Do we owe a debt of gratitude to the store clerks whose job it is to Read More …
Book Review: Medieval Christianity by Kevin Madigan
It’s a little awkward to give this book a star rating, because it’s kind of more like a textbook than a book one normally reads for pleasure or even to learn from in a casual historical context. But all that said, I got a lot out of Medieval Christianity. My greatest interest as it relates Read More …
Afterthought (‘Hind’ sight)
A hundred thousand children gathered For Explo’ 7-2. They went down there to Save the World But mostly Nguyen Thieu They chanted chants to Jahweh (God) But so few of them know What “Jahweh” means – can’t tell it from Enlil or Enkido. Like acid freaks, they walk in dreams And let the rest all Read More …
‘Near-mythical’ rumors stem from violation of a ‘sacred trust’
Read at Daily Herald website It’s not often one would expect to see the phrases “Donald Trump” and “sacred” in close proximity with each other without an “is nothing” in there somewhere, but as the 2016 presidential campaign is amply demonstrating, anything can happen. Unfortunately, this anything involved what Daily Herald Editor John Lampinen rightly Read More …
Twenty-nine poems
Twenty-nine poems. Why not twenty-eight? Or thirty, for a pleasant rounder sum? Enough? Too much? Not mine to calculate, a magic number; sic oraculum. To woo your breast and breath and arms and mind, I offer heartbeats mounting, unmeasured. While cauldrons, crystals, Tarots, chants divined In mute clairvoyance thrash for magic words, Conjure instead through too-neglected modes Of Read More …
Pants Haiku
Cream cotton pants, new. Tom. Viv. Sunset. Giddy talk. Naive vanity.
There’s a reason print newspapers still have imitators
Read at Daily Herald website Ronald Reagan’s famous Cold War maxim “Trust but verify” has too many applications to list, but few are more appropriate than one dealing with print newspapers. The somewhat-less-than-reliable new Lake County Gazette is an extreme case in point. As newspapers bravely soldier through the most bruising in a long history Read More …
Asking the right question about who wins a political debate
Read at Daily Herald website If you ache to learn who won that candidate’s debate you just watched, either you are asking the wrong question or there was no real winner. For the only one who should be a winner in a candidate’s debate is you, the voter. One of the things that most disappoints Read More …