July 2010
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Pray for this woman: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/05/iran.stoning/
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By the way, apropos the previous post: there was one item in the Prose folder at the old site which seems not to have had a link to it, so it was inaccessible unless you happened to stumble on it via Google or something. I think I put it out there so I could bring…
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A small milestone in this long-drawn-out business of migrating everything from my old site to here: that handful of non-blog essays and book reviews that were listed simply as "Prose" on the old site are now here. See the "Here" sidebar, the item called Non-Blog Prose Writings. The verse is next. It's amazing how time-consuming…
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It seems a universal propensity of the human mind to imagine that at some time in the past or future there was or will be a paradise. Whether or not one is justified, as C.S. Lewis and others have suggested, in drawing religious conclusions from this fact, it does seem to be a fact. Our…
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Weekend Music I was thinking about this song yesterday and complaining to myself that I couldn’t hear it, because I only have it on LP and I still haven’t replaced the needle that I stupidly broke a couple of months ago. Then I remembered YouTube. I think it’s best heard in the dark or at…
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This piece originally appeared in the inaugural issue of Caelum et Terra. — I walked into Wal-Mart the other day and one of the first things I saw was a big cardboard crate full of Keebler cookies being sold at some special low price. On the side of the crate, in big letters, were the…
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Who Owns America? Herbert Agar and Allen Tate, editors. Contributors: David Cushman Doyle, Lyle H. Lanier, John C. Rawe, Frank Lawrence Owsley, Richard B. Ransom, Allen Tate, Herbert Agar, Donald Davidson, James Muir Waller, George Marion O’Donnell, John Crowe Ransom, Douglas Jerrold, Willis Fisher, Andrew Lytle, John Donald Wade, Robert Penn Warren, T.J. Cauley, Henry…
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NOTE: This essay appeared in the Summer 1996 issue of Caelum et Terra, a magazine, no longer published, in which I had a hand. References to then-current events and conditions in my own life and that of my family are now some years out of date. I have not read The Lord of the Rings…
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NOTE: This piece originally appeared in the National Catholic Register in 1982. Once I saw Santa Claus. Not some bogus fellow in the mall, but the real thing, in the sky: sleigh, reindeer, and all. It was Christmas Eve and I was about four years old. An aunt of mine was out in the backyard,…
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In spring-fed Beaver Dam Creek, which borders the family property in Greenbrier, Alabama, there lives a teensy little fish called the Spring Pygmy Sunfish, which is on the endangered species list. Going back to the late '70s, there's been some controversy about development in this area because of this fish. My niece, Emily, is a…
Light On Dark Water 