Wednesday, November 6, 2024

"Ushers" by Joe Hill


Martin Lorensen is a young man who’s been extremely lucky, or he’s extremely guilty. Twice he’s narrowly escaped death – a train wreck and a school shooting. Both times, his escape was a last-minute thing – a panic attack kept him from boarding the train and an upset stomach stopped him from entering school and returning home. In the train wreck case, he warned a mother and daughter not to board.

To continue reading, please see my post today at Dancing Priest.

Some Wednesday Readings

 

The Mystic Chords of Memory: Reclaiming American History – Wilfred McClay at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

In William Blake’s Lambeth – Spitalfields Life.

 

“Tragedy,” poem by Jill Spargur – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

Andrew Fuller on the Politicization of the totality of our lives – Michael A.G. Azad Haykin at Historia ecclesiastica.  

Shifting Landscape – poem by Kelle Belmonte at Kelly’ Scribbles.

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