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Camino Winds | Jesus the Son of Man
Amid a category 4 hurricane that levels homes and floods an entire town, a man is murdered. The police shake their heads, insisting he was merely struck by storm debris. But falling limbs don’t leave blood splatter inside a home … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Philosophy, Reviews
Tagged Florida, Jesus, John Grisham, Kahlil Gibran, poetry, wisdom literature
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Wisdom Wednesday: A Psalm of Life
Today’s wisdom is more inspiration, as this poem came to mind often while reading 12 Rules for Life. I first heard the poem on YouTube, read by Paul Scofield (he had magnificent force for narration), and have grown to appreciate … Continue reading
Real Music
Real Music: A Guide to the Timeless Hymns of the Church267 pages© 2016 Anthony Esolen In his book Out of the Ashes: Restoring American Culture, Anthony Esolen devoted an entire chapter solely to music. Here he does one better! To … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Anthony Esolen, art, Catholicism, Christianity, music, poetry, religion
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The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on … Continue reading
Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh© 1997 verse translation by Danny P. Jackson116 pages When I threw in with the Classics Club, I knew the Epic of Gilgamesh had to be on there. The oldest known recorded story? How could it be missed? … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged "classic", Classics and Literary, Classics Club Challenge, heroic epic, Middle East, poetry
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One by one
In the past few days I’ve knocked out several categories for the 2015 Reading Challenge, including: A Book Older than 100 Years: Beowulf, the story of a hero from another land who conquers a monster, his mother , and his … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Anglo-Saxons, English Literature, fantasy, Heoric Epic, poetry, The Western Canon
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The Fellowship of the Ring
The Fellowship of the Ring, being the first part of the Lord of the Rings© 1954 J.R.R Tolkien570 pages Not many birthday gift involves a life-threatening quest to defeat a Dark Lord and prevent the enslavement of all living creatures, … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged "classic", adventure, Classics and Literary, fantasy, heroic epic, JRR Tolkien, poetry
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The Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita: a New Translation© 2000 Our Gita, the Muslims’ Koran, your Bible — it’s always the simple things that catch your breath. ‘Love thy neighbor as yourself.’ – the Mahatma, Gandhi Back in late 2006 I began a … Continue reading