through a mirror dimly

I wish I could write about love, but it escapes me completely. Nothing inspires young people to poetry quite like love – but Jane Austen once noted the “efficacy of poetry in driving away love,” and I’m not very good at it anyway, so I won’t venture into meter. But how else to begin? My [...]

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Holy Sonnet XIV

Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp’d town to’another due,
Labor to’admit you, but oh, to no end;
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is [...]

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“…I have ended in puzzles and contradictions.”

“Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God. But man’s love for God, from the very nature of the case, must always be very largely, and most often entirely, a Need-love. This is obvious when we implore forgiveness for our sins or support in our tribulations. [...]

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Dishdriers

“Katherine had reached the awful pans that needed scouring now, and Martha went away and left her with them, as is the traitorous habit of all dishdriers.” -Edward Eager, Half Magic

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It is enough.

Autumn. Cider, rain, books & comfy chairs, bright leaves, sweaters, long walks, soccer, spices, turkey, fireplaces, family. So many words wrapped up in “autumn.”
“I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough,
To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough.”
- [...]

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Graciousness

“Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.” – Elsie de Wolfe

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