Saturday Good Reads

Taking your son for his first ice skating experience; a musing on death; beautiful artwork for the gospels; and watching a short video of J.R.R. Tolkien (every wondered what he sounded like?). That’s a bit of what follows below, and what follows below is only a bit of some great things on the web this past week.

Prose

“Giverny” by Cassandra Frear at Moonboat Café.

“Snail Tales” by Michelle DeRusha at Graceful.

Take a look at the One Word Blog Carnival on “broken” hosted by Peter Pollock.

“The Stick” by Doug Spurling at Spurling Silver.

“And Now a Word from Our Sponsor” by Matt Appling at The Church of No People.

“Why Write? An Audience of One” by David Rupert at Red-Letter Believers.

“The Tucson Shooting, Huckleberry Finn and the Power of Words” by Billy Coffey at What I Learned Today.

“What’s Your ‘Mystery’ Threshold?” by Mike Duran at deCompose.

“Stepping Onto the Ice” by Michael Perkins at Untitled.

"When the World Says No Way" by Jennifer Dukes-Lee at Getting Down With Jesus.

Poetry

“Without Answers” by Neva Flores at Changfefulstorm Poetry.

“Scuplted Emptiness” by Carmela –J at Paradoxical Illusions of Grandeur.

“We Run” by Melissa at All the Words.

“The Effects of Being Broken” by Maureen Doallas at Writing Without Paper.

“Baptism of Our Lord” by Chaplain Mike at Internet Monk.

“Social Media Megaplex” by Marcus Goodyear at Good Word Editing.

“Recession Redux” by Jim Schmotzer at Faithful Skeptic.

“In January” by Bob Spencer at Wilderness Fandango.

“Channel Surfering” by B.K. McKenzie at Signed…BKM.

“Of course, Death” by Arron Palmer.

“White Out” by Jerry Barrett at Under the Door Frame.

“Poem for Thursday: 14 July 1954” by Matt Quinn at Poemblaze.

“Armless” (Unrhymed) and “Armless” (Rhymed) by Luke Prater at Luke’s Word Salad.

Paintings and Photographs

“The Downside to Being Sick” by Jessica McGuire at Jezamama.

“What a Day” by Steve Gravano at Take a Look Around.

“Strength” and “Winter Blues” by Susan Etole at Just…A Moment.

“Frontispieces for the Four Gospels Project” by Makoto Fujimura.

“January is for Nothing” and “Rewind” by Michelle DeRusha at Graceful.

“Cristom Vineyard,” oil on canvas by Randall David Tipton.

Videos

“Any World Will Do” by Greg Sullivan at Sippican Cottage.

“Kilian Martin: A Skate Regeneration” By Brett Noval. (Hat tip to my friend, poet Cameron Lawrence)

“Remembering John: A Tribute to Matt Maher’s Older Brother.”

“JRR Tolkien on Film,” rare video of the LOTR author. (Hat tip to Taylor Marshall at Canterbury Tales.)

Photograph: Lamp by Nancy Rosback. Used with permission.