Hofflesheesch mein gerter mieu
Wasffelbrachten du.
Laverrness, eh der rater ein
Bedech, bedech. Ah, flein!
- Written just now
What does it mean? Nothing, of course. I don’t know German. Neither does the following poetry mean anything and yet it has the appearance of meaning.
Shiver when you slice a fish
Lest the heart forget its holes
Never has the ancient dish
Lashed itself [...]
Archive for January, 2009
A Quick Idea
Posted in Orthodox Christianity, tagged Abortion, Blessing, Children, Christianity, Church, Church Life, Events, Family, Ideas, Inner City, Kids, Original Solutions, Priest, Priesthood, Priests, Pro-Life on January 27, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I’m always trying to think of ways to contact and minister to the inner city folk, without hosting Operation This-Time-We’re-Hip-Enough or whatever. What are we, after all, if we can’t help the worst off ones?
It struck me that we might hold events in which Priests bless inner-city children. We could let mothers know that they [...]
Posted in Letters, tagged City Life, Country Life, Depression, Destiny, Evil, Fate, God's Goodness, Good, Good and Evil, Goodness, Hope, Landscaping, Pain, Providence, Suffering on January 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
My Dear Patient Readers,
I’ve finally got him off – Scottie has betaken himself to the south for two months and suddenly I’ve got time on my hands. Time that could be well spent in many ways, of course. I need to scour my appartment in preparation for the house blessing I haven’t signed up for [...]
The Coarse and The Divine
Posted in Poems, tagged Christ, Gardens, Glory, Literature, Nature, Poem, Poetry, Question, Questions, Radishes, Rapture, Ruins, Spring Water, Springs, The Divine on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here, a filament
too thin to be green
stands up on a cane of slow silent water
from under warm dirt.
Here, under the sun,
is a Radish Plant.
Radishes are good with salt.
I learned this kneeling
at garden’s edge with my dad
while a knife and a saltshaker sat in the grass.
The sun was too warm, the air too cool…
My problem is, small pleasures I’ve had
seem to me intimations of thunderous [...]
Exhaustion, Grace, Sons, and Chanting…Not Necessarily In That Order
Posted in Music, Orthodox Christianity, Parenting, tagged Babies, Being, Blue Eyes, Chant, Chanting the Psalms, Children, Choir, Choir Director, Church, Churches, Directing Choir, Exhaustion, Existential Questions, Feeling, Grace, Leading Choir, Musical Theory, Orthodox Church, Portrait, Portraits, Psalm 23, Psalmnody, Psalms, Reading the Psalms, Singing the Psalms, Sons, Tired on January 18, 2009 | 10 Comments »
My dear readers,
Forgive the incoherence that follows; hopefully it explains itself.
We celebrated Epiphany a day early for various reasons. I botched the early part of the Liturgy; all the changeables threw me off and I grew more and more flustered and kicked a stack of offering plates accidentally and also knocked over a stool by [...]
Billboards and Footprints
Posted in Art, Language, Orthodox Christianity, tagged Christianity, Christians, Church, Church Life, Conventions, Eating, Fasting, Feasting, Language, Meaning, Photography, Religion, Signs, Symbols, Truth on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Readers,
The arrival of Eastern Christmas and its aftermath blew apart my plans for daily correspondance with you all. Apparently there is no such thing as a smoking break in the Church year; rest up yonder, the calendar seems to say, but seek no leisure here.
I have a few random thoughts to plaster on this [...]
Fear and the Love-Talker
Posted in Poems, tagged Literature, Poetry, Writing on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another Folk Poem
Lady, come over the ivory field
Clad in cream linen and milkweed down
Wait for me under the Fireweed Trees
Crossing your arms, the white on the brown
I’ll come dance the dance of the flame-lipped lizard
Salamandral, beasts’ own wizard,
I’ll dance so solemn your face will bring flying
Wind River, switches of air that come prying -
The down of your [...]
First Trip to the Library
Posted in Parenting, tagged Books, Future, Letters, Libraries, Numbers, Parental Pride, Phonics, Plans, Plans for the Future, Pride, Reading, Toddlers on January 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I have just discovered that by hitting ‘Enter’ while holding down the shift key I can start a line directly below my present line
like this instead of double-spacing my paragraphs
like WordPress normally does.
This will be
nice the next time I write
a poem.
***
“Libraries are just civilized. They are just a part of civilized society, and we need [...]
From Fr. Joseph Antypas
Posted in Christianity, Orthodox Christianity, tagged Church, Church Life, Preisthood, Sacraments on January 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
One of our lovely Arab churches in this area, St. George’s by name, boasts a very learned presbyter, Fr. Joseph Antypas. Having attended there for a few months, we still get their newsletter, in which one of Fr. Joseph’s sermons is printed weekly.
Here’s an excerpt from this week.
It is the conviction of the Orthodox that Christ is the [...]
A Rather Heckish Day
Posted in Life, Parenting, tagged Bubbles, Food, Frustration, Hunger, Mom's Night Out, Mommy Brain, Nourishment, Photography, Portrait Studios, Portraits, Soup, Taking Pictures on January 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I must be brief. I feel I’m starving, and none of this fare my husband likes to call “rabbit food” seems tolerable at the moment. After wrestling with Johnny for hours on end I’ve been overtaken by the urge to replenish my emotional welbeing by eating something warm and savory and very, very lonely. But [...]
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