A visit to Carlsbad Caverns led me to theological speculations, partly because they’re magnificent and partly because I was reading Byatt’s “Possession.”
Tag Archives: In Memoriam
On Carlsbad Caves, Science and Religion
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Remembering My Eldest 24 Years Later
A Mary Oliver poem about grieving as I remember my eldest, who died 24 years ago on this day.
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Empire of Light, Filled with Poetry
The film “Empire of Light” is magical in part because of all the poetry recited.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Death's Echo", "Trees", Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ali Fears Eats the Soul, Chariots of Fire, cinema, Empire of Light, Philip Larkin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, T.S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Waste Land Comments closed
Ring Out the Old, Ring in the New
“Ring Out Wild Bells” is as strong a poetic affirmation of hope as is to be found anywhere.
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Ring Out the Old, Ring in the New
Tennyson and Longfellow have poems about bells ringing out an age of sin and suffering and ringing in new hope. Let them ring.
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Let Us Sail into the Promise of the Day
E. A. Robinson’s “Children of the Night” finds spiritual hope in a dark world.
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