Poetry adds an extra dimension to sleeping outdoors.
Monthly Archives: July 2018
Sleeping Outdoors
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Adam's Curse", "Fern Hill", "Poem in October", "Sleeping in the Forest", "Song of the Open Road", "Stopping by the Woods on a Showy Evening", After Apple-Picking, Anam Cara, Dylan Thomas, John O'Donohue, Mary Oliver, Nature, Robert Frost, sleep, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats Comments closed
How To Cross Trump’s Swamp
Trump promised to “drain the swamp” but is proving to be perhaps our most corrupt president. Mary Oliver’s “Crossing the Swamp” captures the feelings of many.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Crossing the Swamp", corruption, Donald Trump, draining the swamp, Mary Oliver Comments closed
Milton: Sex as a Holy Sacrament
Spiritual Sunday My wife has been researching her Moravian past prior to a heritage trip to the Czech Republic and other important Moravian way stations in the trek to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where Julia’s ancestors landed. Some of these ancestors were missionaries who made their way to Grace Hill, Iowa, where Julia grew up. Julia reported […]
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Count Zinzendorf, John Milton, Moravians, Paradise Lost, sexuality Comments closed
Howl’s Empowerment Drama
In “Howl’s Moving Castle,” Diana Wynne Jones breaks free of confining fantasy narratives.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Diana Wynne Jones, empowerment, Feminism, Howl's Moving Castle Comments closed
Donald Trump as Saruman
Like Saruman, Trump isn’t interested in traditional alliances but wants to link up directly with Sauron (a.k.a. Vladimir Putin).
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged America-Russia relations, Donald Trump, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Senate Intelligence Committee, Trump resistance, Vladimir Putin Comments closed
America as a Mixed Nut Bowl
In “Immigrant Picnic,” Djanikian captures the rich mixing that America’s welcoming of immigrants has given us.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Immigrant Picnic, "The People Yes", Carl Sandburg, Gregory Djanikian, Immigration, July 4 Comments closed
Lost in a Cave
The scouts rescued from in a flooded cave bring to mind the Tom-Becky story in “Tom Sawyer.”
The Declining English Major
An English prof, sensing obsolescence, turns to “In Memoriam” (also Fowles, Wordsworth & Arnold).
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Dover Beach", Alan Bennett, Alfred Lord Tennyson, English major, French Lieutenant's Woman, History Boys, Humanities, In Memoriam, Intimations of Immortality, John Fowles, Matthew Arnold, William Wordsworth Comments closed
Strangers Are Guides from Beyond
Rather than fear strangers, Rumi says we should welcome them in.
