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Advent Reminder

By michael lee ⋅ November 29, 2008 ⋅ 6 comments

Every year, I have to ask Doug to remind me what the weeks in advent stand for. Since I don’t have a handy notebook near, I’m posting this here to remind me throughout the season, and so that I can find it with a snappy little blog search next year.
Advent is four weeks long. The [...]

Gathering Eden

By michael lee ⋅ November 23, 2008 ⋅ 5 comments

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Kyrie Yeshua,
We have no memory of happier times
except the mimeographed black and white
irrelevant and unlived kind
No touchstone of bliss to serve as reference
For reconstruction and renovation
Instead we forage through the present pieces of ordinary lives
gathering Eden from the disparate strands presumed to be
echos of the first thing, the better thing, the joyful thing
And perhaps the [...]

I shall not now feel ashamed.

By aly hawkins ⋅ November 26, 2006 ⋅ 7 comments

I borrowed the extended edition of The Return of the King from our friends Jason and Brooke and have been ever-so-slowly making my way through the special features. In one of the (many) featurettes, a bushel of Tolkien experts examine his theme of hope versus despair, which he explores most powerfully in the contrasting characters [...]

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