Yeats’ “Mother of God” is a good poem for the third Sunday in Advent.
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Mary and the Threefold Terror of Love
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A Roc Sighting in Xmas Bird Count
A Scott Bates poem on a miraculous sighting during the annual Christmas bird count.
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McCarthy a Greek Hero? NOT!
Kevin McCarthy is no tragic hero. He does resemble a minor figure from “Julius Caesar,” however.
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The Left Wants to Cancel Orwell? Nope
MAGA fans of 1984 are now accusing leftists of canceling Orwell. Which is not true.
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Trump as Dracula and Ancient Mariner
Maureen Dowd compares Trump to Dracula and the Ancient Mariner. The comparisons are worth exploring.
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Soliloquies Changed Us Fundamentally
Hamlet’s soliloquies changed the way we see ourselves and others and led the way to the novel.
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Light in a Time of Darkness
Allan Boesak’s “Advent Credo” reminds us that Advent is a time of radical hope.
Dec. 7 & Watching One’s Son Go to War
Today being Pearl Harbor Day, I share a Gwendolyn Brooks poem about a mother who loses her son to the war.
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