Saturday Good Reads

I’d never read a poem about a parking ticket, but Nick Maurer at Curator Magazine wrote one. Tim Good takes a photo of a single tulip, and it looks like a painting. Matt Appling finds the best way to miss out on your own life. A story in The New York Times finds something going badly wrong in both red and blue America. And a few of the houses that various writers in Britain lived in.

Good, thoughtful stuff this week.

Photography

Alone – Tim Good at Photography by Tiwago.

Poetry

Sunday Psalm – Jerry Barrett at Gerald the Writer.

We Might Never Die – Shawn Smucker.

Water and Stone and Poets on Poetry – Maureen Doallas at Writing Without Paper.

Blood-Red Moon – Chris Yokel.

Either Way – John Blase at The Beautiful Due.

To Contest a Parking Citation – Nick Maurer at Curator Magazine.

Family

Afternoon Showers – Travis Thrasher at The Journey is Everything.

Faith

The Best Way to Miss Out on Your Own Life – Matt Appling at The Church of No People.

Choices – Grayson Pope at A Parched Soul.

Coming Clean – Seth Haines at In Touch Ministires.

Culture

The Universality of Bigotry – Rod Dreher at American Conservative.

Being cursed – Billy Coffey at What I Learned Today.

Hand, Meet Glove: Why We Need Both Justice and Morality – Pastor Zach (Hat tip: Jim Young).

The Politics of Consumption – Zac Settle at The Curator Magazine.

Sex, Drugs and Poverty in Red and Blue America – Thomas Edsall at The New York Times (Hat tip: Rod Dreher).

Why Harry Connick Jr. Couldn't Sit Idle During 'Idol' - John Stark at Next Avenue (hat tip: Janet Young).

Writing

Only by Patient Devotion – Mick Silva.

Temples of literature: writers’ houses – in pictures – The Guardian (Hat tip: Liz Mace).

Photograph: The house in Chawton, Hampshire, where Jane Austen lived the last eight years of her life. It’s now the Jane Austen House Museum. Via Wikipedia.