Monthly Archives: December 2002
New Year
Last Day of 2002. It’s been a good one. Now, on to the New Year. We actually set and met most of our goals for the year here in the Clark Household. Time to reflect and pray on new goals, … Continue reading
It’s Still Christmas.
We’ve unwrapped all the presents. We ate the big dinner. All of the out of town guests have returned home. Now I feel like I can truly relax and celebrate Christmas, what with all of the stressful Giftmas details taken … Continue reading
Starting Today
“Stay with us now, O Lord of the earth,Make of our hearts a place for Thy birth.Tho’ our cares be great or small,Jesus the Lord be born in us all.” So our hearts are the manger, a meager and rude … Continue reading
Stinkin’ in Target
So I woke up Saturday morning and thought to myself , “Hey, I’ll take the first kid that wakes up and go hit the stores early and avoid the crowds.” (You gotta take at least one child with you anywhere, … Continue reading
In the Stretch…
Wrapping up my Giftmas shopping this weekend. Gonna take the first baby that wakes up with me to the stores reeeal early to avoid crowds and punch those last gifties out. Yep, Hanna of H-Town Bloggers was my Secret Santa … Continue reading
we’re everything brighter than even the sun
A Cheerful Poem by E.E. Cummings. I swear this is the last one. I just wanted to end on one of his brighter notes. if everything happens that can’t be done(and anything’s righterthan bookscould plan)the stupidest teacher will almost guess(with … Continue reading
What he said…
So after my ramble on the Incarnation below, I get this quote in my Daily Spiritual Seed: “The Word was in people for this purpose, that it might divinize them . . . The Word had to become human in … Continue reading
Giftmas
I am by far not the only person to use the term “Giftmas” to refer to the secular Christmas holiday. And here I thought I made the term up. Nope, I’m just one of a legion of curmudgeons, ranters, and … Continue reading
Christmas at Ground Zero
More blog mode to dilute the ponderous philosophical ramblings I’ve been heavy on lately: Here’s and old page that makes an oddly interesting Cultural Studies paper juxtaposing popular images of Christmas with nuclear apocalyptic angst. (I said it was odd, … Continue reading
John Cage Christmas
In blog mode: A Christmas poem by John Cage appropos of the last full shopping weekend before the Big Day.
Christmas Meditiation: That Art Thou
More E.E. Cummings, sorry… no man,if men are gods;but if gods mustbe men,the sometimes only man is this(most common,for each anguish is his grief;and,for his joy is more than joy,most rare) a fiend,if fiends speak truth;if angels burn by their … Continue reading
Another Christmas Story
If you’ve not experienced John Henry Faulk’s touching Christmas Story, you simply must. You can listen to it here. NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday runs it every year as a tradition. I’ve heard it a bunch of times and I cry … Continue reading
bonds
(a poem I wrote a while back that, for some reason, seemed tangentially related to the mind-ramble I posted below.) some men of science say that mostof our universe is empty space, hostto the bonds between tiny particles, partsof tiny … Continue reading
Emergency
More from Cummings’ six nonlectures: “Little by little and bruise by teacup, my doubly disillusioned spirit made an awesome discovery…that all groups, gangs, and collectives — no matter how apparently disparate — are fundamentally alike; and that what makes the … Continue reading
How Bill Murray is Like E. E. Cummings
I was reading more from E.E. Cummings’ six nonlectures and he was briefly recounting his experiences in a French Concentration camp during World War I. Apparently he was thrown in there after writing a letter home about how the Germans … Continue reading