…  National Lighthouse Day! | The Gun-Carryin' Librarian . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Mark Twain took notice of the writer of awful poems . Wikipedia calls Twain a self-described fan of Moore’s. She was apparently an influen...

…  The Catholic Art of George Tooker - The Catholic Thing . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Tooker never complained about neglect. He was too absorbed...

…  Quo Vadis, America? | The Russell Kirk Center . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) W hen addressing the issue of freedom, Sheen notes that the common ...

  Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. — Rabindranath Tagore , who died on this date in 1941

…  Plenilune | Word Genius .

 … The Chicken or the Egg? 75th Anniversary of Brideshead Book Publication in the USA1   (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  ‘Eliot After “The Waste Land”’ Review: As Prufrock Grew Old . (Hat tip, Dave  Lull.) After Vivien’s death, Eliot had written to Emily tha...

…  Who Is This Kid? Middle Schooler Caused Teacher to Have a Mini-Freak Out Over Pronouns .

…  Zealotry of Guerin: Poetry and Fiction by Christopher Guerin: SKY .

…   The Charge of Poetry ~ The Imaginative Conservative . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The Holy Spirit moves through Scripture and prayer, and yet ...

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol o...

…  Derby | Word Genius .

…  Larkin in America | City Journal . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) … why should Americans read Larkin? An instrumental answer might be that he used...

…  once upon a time : This is the first day of the rest of my life among bloggers .

…  once upon a time : Meet the great-great grandson: the other John Winthrop .

…  Fauci messing up monkeypox just like COVID, Ebola and AIDS . “The CDC was supposed to have spent the last 2+ decades preparing for the sp...

I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting to tell things as...

…  Poetry as Prayer | Peter J. Leithart | First Things . (Hat tip, Dave lull.) Most of Steven’s tales are simple, hardly worth the telling. ...

…  once upon a time : When October 19 became October 30 in 1752 .

…  Credence | Word Genius .

…  Amazon.co.uk:Customer reviews: Philosophy after Christ: Thinking God's Thoughts after Him . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  September 7, 2022: Richard Rodriguez discusses his book "Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez." Moderated by Pa...

…  Religion Is a Feature, not a Flaw | Josh Holdenried | First Things . In his  farewell address  to the nation, President George Washington...

…  Paul Davis On Crime: Justice For Kiki: My Threatcon Column On the Capture Of Mexican Drug Lord Caro-Quintero .

…  once upon a time : I now prefer a cup of coffee, said John Adams of Braintree .

Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced. — Walter Pater , born ...

…  Schema | Word Genius .

…  once upon a time : First edition appears on this day in 1821 .

…  once upon a time : Supermarkets, higher incomes, and 3,000 calories per day .

… The Virtual Memories Show: Episode 497 – Dave McKean .

… The Survivor asks something of its audience . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Based on a nonfiction book by Alan Scott Haft, it looks at the life of...

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything . — Joseph Conrad , who died on this date in 1924

…  Happy endings, tragedy, and futility | Brandywine Books   (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) …  The universe, it seems to me, is a story. Christians d...

…   once upon a time : Saigon advisors, HUAC hearings, and the Red Scare .

… To the Young Who Want to Die: Roxane Gay Reads Gwendolyn Brooks’s Lifeline of a Poem . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…  Book Review: "The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay" Introduced By Olivia Gatwood . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) Despite hav...

…  I Am Bound for de Kingdom by Marlanda Dekine | American Life in Poetry . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…  Punnet | Word Genius .

…  Defying Extinction PAPERBACK - Amy Barone : Small Press Distribution . I know. I just finished reading it. And I am reading it again. I a...

…  once upon a time : Stick a feather in that cap, ye fops and Yankee Doodles .

… Opinion: What Dr. Johnson can teach Pope Francis . (Hat tip Dave Lull.) Someone might want to remind everyone of the ghastly manner in whi...

…  once upon a time : Coolidge gets tough job on this day in 1923 .

 …  Canción by Eduardo Halfon Translated by Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn . …  Of Mineral by Tiff Dressen . …  Peripheral Debris by Carl Kauc...

…  Why Is Booker Prize Winner Stanley Middleton Forgotten?  (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Middleton was an astonishingly prolific novelist and an ar...

…  Christianity and Poetry by Dana Gioia | Articles | First Things . ( Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Poetry is not merely important to Christianity. ...

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ...

…  The Saint, the Book, and the Lily - The Catholic Thing . . A story holds that early one morning in 1530 (it was the eve of the octave of ...

… once upon a time : Contrary to popular belief, this was the signing day .

…  Stellate | Word Genius .

…   The Bookmongers -- Episode 415: 'Hunger of Memory' by Richard Rodriguez | National Review . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Old School Umps - BallNine .

…  once upon a time : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Jewish law .

…  once upon a time : Pilgrims set sail (and I resume reading) .

…  once upon a time : Breakfast is ready!

…   THE DREAM OF THE ROOD: A NEW TRANSLATION . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Translation, at least as we experience it, is a result of the Fall. Wit...

… The crisis of Generation Z . Researchers have believed for a long time that traumatic events suffered at a young age have a particularly b...

A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it. — Paul Horgan , born on this date in 190...

…  Moxie | Word Genius .

…  Bill Russell, Celtics legend and NBA trailblazer, dead at 88 .

… once upon a time : A Polish patriot, an Army base, and David McCullough .

…  Selected Stories 1990-2022: reutter, g emil, Buddha, Alien: 9798843044282: Amazon.com: Books .

It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian. — E...

… Paper: mRNA Vaccine Suppresses Immune Response: Increasing Risk For Infections, Bell’s Palsy, Shingles, Cancer . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrific...

…  once upon a time : Cracking the secret codes used in espionage activities .

…  Solus | Word Genius .

…  Carson's "Silent Spring" fails test of time - The New York Times . Carson used dubious statistics and anecdotes to warn of ...

…  once upon a time : Get those nukes ready to strike North Korea and China .

… SCOTUS Justice Alito Criticizes World Leaders for Opposing Abortion Ruling, Cites ‘Hostility to Religion’. “There’s … growing hostility t...

…  A tribute to my friend James Lovelock | The Spectator . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Historically our view of Earth was defined by two disciplin...

…  Zealotry of Guerin: Poetry and Fiction by Christopher Guerin: The Age of Aggravation .

Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headq...

…  Decorticate | Word Genius .

…  Sherlock Annotated: So, who has been the best Sherlock Holmes on TV?

…  Moonstone Arts Center Submission Manager - Hiroshima Day 2022 .

…  Less was more - Oliver Pritchett - The Oldie . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  once upon a time : Remembrance of things past (and downtown shopping) .

I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment ...

…  Concomitant | Word Genius .

… why are they wasting their time in school:  “Woke” students walked out of an event for a pathetic reason . By the way, I may not agree wit...

…   Shibe Park, Philadelphia, April... - Old-Time Baseball Photos | Facebook .

…  once upon a time : POTUS orders shameful eviction of military veterans .

…  James Lovelock, creator of Gaia hypothesis, dies on 103rd birthday | James Lovelock | The Guardian .

…  mRNA Platform Inventor Sifts Through the Lies .

 … This gentleman speaks for many of us . (Hat tip, Felix  Giordano.)

If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and toler...

…  once upon a time : Deciding the fate of North America (and this blog ) .

…  Last Month by John Ashbery | Poetry Foundation . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden)

'… Windward' by David Mason | Original poem | The TLS . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Ataraxy | Word Genius .

…  once upon a time : The lost colony may actually exist .

… Who’s It For? — ‘Craft in the Real World’   (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Salesses’s foremost concern is the way that the behavioral and artistic ...

The Age of Innocence is the second of Edith Wharton's novels which I've read (the other is The House of Mirth ). And I must say, Inn...

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have sur...

…   50 Years of Making Nonfiction Creative - Creative Nonfiction . (Hat tip, Gwen Hansell Hendry) Fifty years ago, on Valentine’s Day of 197...

…  Carapace | Word Genius .

… White Christian Nationalism ‘Is a Fundamental Threat to Democracy’ . They better watch where they say this sort of shit. They might find t...

… WOKEISM – THE NEW RELIGION OF THE WEST . In the early 20th century, a German school of philosophy called the Frankfurt School developed a ...

…  Rhode Island restaurant posts horrific meme of Anne Frank and the Holocaust | Daily Mail Online . How did whoever posted this not know wh...