Today, on this first day of Lent, Ash Wednesday, it seems only appropriate to reflect on the words of my favorite poet, T.S. Eliot. The marvelous, genius, insightful Mr. Eliot is a beautiful reminder that God can take someone broken and searching and use him for His glory. As much as I love Eliot’s pre-conversion poetry [...]
Archive for February, 2009
23 Feb
Learning How to Die
Disclaimer: This blog may be a sort of eruption of everything in my head. Hopefully, it’ll all make sense in the end.
Lent begins on Wednesday. I’ve never participated in Lent before because no church I’ve ever been a part of has encouraged it. I’m not even sure I knew what Lent was until maybe [...]
22 Feb
Fire is bright and fire is clean.
Last night, I thought about all the kerosene I’ve used in the last ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them [...]
16 Feb
Three Things
1. I’ll begin with the most unpleasant. I’m reading Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives & Tender Buttons for my 20th Century American Fiction class. I HATE GERTRUDE STEIN! There…had to get that out once more. Why? you may ask (but only if you’ve never read her…). Well, let me tell you:
a) All telling, no showing. Dry [...]
13 Feb
Into the Wild
“In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters.”
–from author’s note, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
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“If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t [...]
12 Feb
Of book thieves and word shakers.
“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those thing that she didn’t already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race–that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the [...]
7 Feb
The green comes from the frozen ground…
Last night, some friends and I went to Easley to see the play Foxfire. This post is not about that. (The play is good, though, and you should see it if you get the chance.)
At some point in the car, this kid Andrew (whom I just met last night) said the word “forever” but, as [...]
5 Feb
You’re patient with my impatience.
I’ve spent the morning listening to one album on repeat on my iPod. Surprisingly enough, it is not The Fray. Nope.
Check out The Autumn Film. The Onion said this: “Like a post-collegiate Fiona Apple jamming with Snow Patrol, The Autumn Film serves up a piano-drenched sincerity topped off with a voice that’s wise and heartbroken [...]
3 Feb
I really like Tuesdays.
Mostly because it’s the day that new music comes out! Today, it was The Fray’s self-titled album. I’ve already listened to the entire album three times, and of course hit repeat on various other tracks. For once, I didn’t preview the album online, although it was available. The last two new albums that I’ve bought [...]
3 Feb
I Am Legend
“But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the deeds of the parent who drained the spirit from his child? The vampire may foster quickened heartbeats and levitated hair. But is he worse than the parent who gave to society a neurotic [...]
