My best New Year’s Eve ever was the one spent with my children on a cold night in an East Texas park where we had an entire state campground to ourselves to ring in the new year. I wrote about it for the (now defunct) Texas Magazine, which was a product of The Houston Chronicle, [...]
Archive for December, 2011
The best New Year’s Eve, Ever (Cheers!)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2011 | 9 Comments »
“Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky!” (Midnight Wine)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
One of the first poets who really grabbed me–the poet whose Muses really sang to me in my formative years–was Lord Alfred Tennyson. In a tribute to him, William Howitt wrote this perfect description of Tennyson’s poetic sensibilities: “From all these places–from the silent corridor of an ancient convent, from some shrine where a devoted [...]
And now for something completely different (Slacker Dawgs Div.)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hey Fido, would it kill ya to get up off your lazy dawg ass to eat them Kittles???
Your Jitterbug Thought for the Day (Short & Sweet)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 28, 2011 | 7 Comments »
“No, the word is very near to you, it is in your mouth and in your heart for you to observe.” — Dt. 30:14
Your Tuesday Afternoon Music Therapy (Rainy Day Div.)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 27, 2011 | 7 Comments »
So this morning I was going through drafts of postings I’ve never posted for whatever reasons. In doing so I found this very cool song from Bill Withers with Grover Washington Jr. on his sexy sax. I remember putting this posting together on a really rainy day here at your favorite blawg and not having [...]
“Life is a mystery, love is a delight” (Noon Wine)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“We live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual,” the late and great writer Walker Percy wrote, “because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” At the end of the day, Percy–who was an oblate at the Benedictine [...]
Peace Be With You (Merry Christmas 2011)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Photo by the fine and very fine photographer in Sante Fe, New Mexico, Katie Johnson, at katiescamerablog.wordpress.com Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea and what fills it resound; let the plains be joyful and all that is in them. Then let all the trees of the forest rejoice — [...]
