Saturday Good Reads

A classic film review of one of my favorite movies – Babette’s Feast. It’s Wallace Stevens over at The American Conservative and Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Englewood Review of Books. Nancy Rosback sings the Bad Old Woman Blues. Beautiful photos of wild horses in France. J of India heads westward, and Eva Cassidy sings about those fields of gold (and I like this version even better than Sting’s).

Some wonderful stuff this week. (And there's an Olympic cycling event this morning, and the British are favored to win. Why does this remind me of some novel?)

Prose

“We Took to the Ramshackle Victorian near the Woods” by Greg Sullivan at Sippican Cottage.

“Approval” by Michael Perkins at The Handwritten.

“Rich Christians, World Poverty, Guilt, Giving and How Much?” By Anita Mathias at Dreaming Beneath the Spires.

“The Asterisk Beside Our Dash” by Scott Couchenour at Serving Strong.

“Significance” by Jeanne Damoff at The View From Here.

“Who is James Holmes?” by Bill Coffey at What I Learned Today.

“Classic Film Review: Babette’s Feast” by Chaplain Mike at Internet Monk.

“Message in Christian Fiction” by Adam Blumer at Meaningful Suspense.

Poetry

“Into the Mystic with Wallace Stevens” by Rod Dreher at The American Conservative.

“Dance cards” and “In the hand of a smaller morning” by B.K. McKenzie at Signed…BKM.

“Jukichi Yagi” by D.S. Martin at Kingdom Poets.

“Standing Stones II” by Chris Yokel.

“Gernicka Remembered” by Maureen Doallas at Writing Without Paper.

“Bad Old Woman Blues” and “Don’t Miss” by Nancy Rosback at A Little Somethin’.

“Youth and Age” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge via Englewood Review of Books.

Paintings and Photographs

“The Original Hopper Houses” by New York Times Magazine.

“Geranium” and “Tree” by Tom Good at Good Photography.

“Wandering Westward” by J of India at Neither Use Nor Ornament.

“Midway” by Susan Etole at Just…A Moment.

“The White Wild Horses of Camargue, France” via Abraham Piper at 22 Words.

“Laramie to Lander,” oil on panel by Randall David Tipton at Painter’s Process.

Videos

“Fields of Gold” by Eva Cassidy.

Photograph: London Olympic Torch by Petr Kratochvil via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.