This
week, I’ve been reading Young
Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land, the biography of T.S. Eliot by
Robert Crawford of the University of St. Andrews. Yesterday, I had a meeting in
mid-town St. Louis on Locust Street, which just happens to be the street where
the Eliots lived, and actually only five blocks away. I knew the house at 2635
Locust was long gone, but I drove by anyway.
The
property on the north side of Locust is now a fenced, unused, weed grown
parking lot in a commercial / light industrial area. It set me to pondering the
impermanence of life on this earth, and what had been an upper middle class
neighborhood in the late 1880s and 1890s now resembled something of a waste
land.
Good
things in poetry this week, and photography, and writing. Another Planned
Parenthood video was released, and I think I was right – with each video, the
subject and details are getting worse.
And
if you asked me what I think heaven might look like, I would say watch the
video of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. Watch the faces. This is also a picture
of what the church might be, might become.
Poetry
Franz Wright – D.S. Martin
at Kingdom Poets.
First Words – Amy Billone
at Verse Wrights (Hat tip: L.L. Barkat).
Noteworthy: On
James Tate
– Kelly McBride at Curator Magazine. And his obituary in
The Guardian
(the Brits do these so much better than we do).
County Crow – D.R. James at
Curator Magazine.
Photography and Art
Bodark Obed Edom – Jack
Baumgartner at The School of the Transfer of Energy.
Creating Paris
Street, Rainy Day: New Discoveries about Caillebotte’s Process – Art Institute
of Chicago.
Seeking Balance:
The Lives of Evangelical Pastors in Rural Florida – Jeff Rich at
Oxford American.
Monarch
Caterpillars
– Tim Good at Photography by Tiwago.
Writing
How to Write
Your Story to Value the Honest Truth – Mick Silva.
Five Encounters
with Vegetation
– Will Blythe at Oxford American.
The Literature
of Witness
– Alex Miller Jr. at Curator Magazine.
Planned Parenthood
I Don’t Know if
I’m Pro-Choice After Planned Parenthood Videos – Ruben
Navarrette Jr. at The Daily Beast.
The Sixth
Planned Parenthood Video – how Planned Parenthood and StemExpress planned
“production and harvest” – Justin Taylor at The Gospel Coalition.
Painting: Paris Street, Rainy Day, oil
on canvas by Gustav Caillebotte (1877); Art Institute of Chicago.
2 comments:
Thank you for that video....so inspiring.
That's worthy of more than one listen.
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