“what strange accents burst upon my astonished ear?”
i’ve long been interested in accents and dialects, especially from the british isles. i took a theatre class in that once upon a time, actually. if you’re at all familiar with british dialects you’ll know the folks in yorkshire have a particular, peculiar, unmistakable and absolutely wonderful accent. the secret garden, by frances hodgson burnett, … Read more
infinite, incarnate
the sky is darkened confined, time-bound by a veil of cloud only a single star can pierce through. so sometimes i feel constricted, limited by the selective world of my own mind and long for something someone to shatter my smoke-glass ceiling so i can see the stars. i am very small, 100 trillion cells … Read more
and noun you know
hey! boycott that maverick leotard-wearing silhouette — he’s eating a sandwich in a lamborghini, for pete’s sake! oh no, wait — it gets even worse! his wife’s sitting next to him in a cardigan and bloomers, combing the shrapnel out of his sideburns. pull on your wellington boots and rev up your zeppelins, boys; i … Read more
see with your ears and hear with your eyes
i have a friend who has a lot of mind and a lot of heart. once upon a time this friend said something about hearing God’s voice that … well, made my heart hurt a little bit. i’m reading notes from the tilt-a-whirl by n.d. wilson right now, and the following passage from the chapter … Read more
bewilderness
have you ever been in the bewilderness? maybe i should explain what it is. “bewilderness” is sort of a portmanteau that i coined during dinner tonight. its contributing parts are “wilderness” and “bewilderment.” “bewilder” means “to cause to lose one’s bearings,” or “to perplex or confuse especially by a complexity, variety, or multitude of objects or … Read more
say what? — part ii
after i wrote about my predilection for not talking much in certain settings, i thought i should clarify a couple of things: 1. i love people. 2. i love to talk. (imagine that i have grinned.) i mention these two things because — a. i am not always very demonstrative (“ancora imparo,” to explain it in … Read more
say what?
two years ago a group of friends and i were at a national church conference, and over lunch we discussed the session on small group ministry we’d all just attended (without previous planning). the hour wore on, and the intensity of our conversation ebbed and flowed as people jumped with their ideas, passions or concerns. … Read more
sometimes i lecture myself in german
kleiner Idiot, hast du keinen Verstand? nein. ich denke du habt es nicht.
forrest
(reposted from thoughts ungathered. find three years’ worth of poetry there. we talked about you today in the way people do when they assume their hazy dreams hold the future’s reality we gave you color and complexes and made you a heroine for saving the anti-hero glaring on his deathbed — later on my own … Read more
now what’s normal in my life …
from the bookshelves: old possum’s book of practical cats by t.s. eliot with illustrations by edward gorey the coworkers and i were talking today about how we spent our respective Easter holidays. one of them put in his time watching children try to launch hard-boiled eggs from a special egg shooter spring machine-thing one of … Read more
