Reprint-”Return”

This is a poem that I posted once before on my blog, but not alone. It is actually part of a much larger “journey poem” that needs a fair bit of work. Since I have been reflecting about Pakistan in recent posts, I thought that this poem about the last time I actually went there [...]

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Forest Park Soundtrack

Photo courtesty of explorestlouis.com
One of the many brilliant, free things about St. Louis is its crown jewel, Forest Park. Take a gander at these Google images pages. And even though I like my winters to be cold and snowy, yesterday was just too lovely and flirtatious a day to ignore its wooing.
So after church I [...]

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From the Vault II

Alumnus Yearning
O for a cup of chai
O for the mountain pines
O for the fellowship swee
A moment in space and time is gone
But love of friends
And love of Christ
Live on.
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Murree Christian School
Commentary from Ache for Eternity is in the comments.

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Slanting Light…

…is one of the lovely things of the world. I cannot decide, though, if it is more the light itself or how it illuminates things differently that I like.
This morning it was both. Driving into work, crossing the state line into Illinois, listening to Sufjan’s Steven’s album of the same name, a bright, yellow sun [...]

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Two From the Vault

7/23, a fractional accounting of sorrow*
(reflection and epitaph)
a sabbath cycle sets this year, mom
and me 23
that means that come this time in a year
a third of my life will have gone by
without you
and slowly it goes on
the gradual slide to accept as commonplace
the thought that chilled with horror
my cozy childhood heart; me alive
without you
and so [...]

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Copycat-But Beauty Wants Sharing

This screen shot is from a whimiscal/beautiful advertisement, or “advert” as the Brits call it, that I became of aware through the auspices of Junkmail for Blankets via Karagraphy, two blogs which I highly recommend to you.
Click here to see the advertisement. Have patience and view a high definition version, perferably the long one. You [...]

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Band of Brothers

Nathan, Neil, Lloyd, Jesse
How good and pleasant it is
when brothers live together in unity!
It is like precious oil poured on the head,
running down on the beard,
running down on Aaron’s beard,
down upon the collar of his robes.
It is as if the dew of Hermon
were falling on Mount Zion.
For there the LORD bestows his blessing,
even life forevermore.

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New Year’s Trip Selections

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Way Cool Gift, But Snug-Back to the Bike

Plus…
…another new banner
…a new blog on the blogroll
…and a new link section hightlighting reviews

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The Silence of Adam-The Procrastination of Neil

Jeremy Huggins recently wrote a post referencing what he calls “the only marriage book I’ve found of any value,” As For Me and My House by Walter Wangerin, Jr. His description prompts this post about what I consider “the only book on men I’ve found of any value,” though I have not read widely in [...]

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