Dear November

1. DENVER (and Carrie Sawyer)
2. Tango music
3. PEER freaking REVIEW
4. Day of Prayer
5. Thanksgiving in South Carolina
6. Candace's Basic Training graduation
7. Kant's Prolegomena
8. Chapel talk
9. Latin Easter Vigil

new favorite

OHMYGOODNESS.

Dear October

1. Brendhan's Basic Training graduation
2. Graduate Record Examination
3. Richard Wilbur's A Hole in the Floor
4. Pride and Prejudice piano music
5. Requiems
6. Plane tickets
7. Bobotie and chutney and
8. South Africa overload
9. Wendell Berry's Fidelity and tears, tears, tears

Pilgrim's Chorus, from Richard Wagner's Tannhauser

Once more with joy O my home I may meet

Once more ye fair, flowr'y meadows I greet

My Pilgrim's staff henceforth may rest

Since Heaven's sweet peace is within my breast.

The sinner's `plaint on high was heard

On high was heard and answered by the Lord

The tears I laid before His shrine

Are turned to hope and joy divine.

O Lord eternal praise be Thine!

The blessed source of Thy mercy overflowing

On souls repetant seek Ye, all-knowing

Of hell and death, I have no fear

O my Lord is ever near

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Forevermore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=299iYHF4x1s

you should go outside

...but not before listening to this song by Joanna Newsom.

DO IT.

Deus Absconditus

God was in the water that day
Pickin' through the roots and stones
Trippin' over sunken logs
Tryin' not to make his presence known
God was in the water that day
Wadin' in careful steps
Bubbles rising from His feet
Comin' up from the muddy depths

-Randall Bramblett

something different

This song, Houses in the Fields by John Gorka, has become a new favorite. It's simple enough, but I do fear its truth. And consequence.

"It's a sign I'm getting on in years when nothing new is welcome to these eyes and ears."