Being as How Seattle was Founded September 25, 1851…
…I thought I would post my friend Jonathan Potter’s poem “Seattle” in honor of My Home Town. You can find more of his excellent writing here.
…I thought I would post my friend Jonathan Potter’s poem “Seattle” in honor of My Home Town. You can find more of his excellent writing here.
Brass Spittoons BY LANGSTON HUGHES Clean the spittoons, boy. Detroit, Chicago, Atlantic City, Palm Beach.Clean the spittoons.The steam in hotel kitchens,And the smoke in hotel lobbies,And the slime in hotel spittoons:Part of my life. Hey, boy! A
Before Earth saw Him, she had felt and knownThe small soft feet that thrust like buds in Spring.The body of Our Lord was all her ownOnce. From the cross her
Something I never knew till about five minutes before posting this. The recording was made in 1957, when he was still the junior senator from Massachusetts. Happy Fourth of July!:
For Janet How can it be that I feel youngernow, with you, than I did in grey youth? Grimlypacing the cage of my lonely hungerfor love, I tested the bars
Psalm 34 I will bless the Lord at all times;his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the Lord;let the afflicted hear and be glad. O
Every year, somebody stoops down to instruct us ignorant Catholics about the real origins of Halloween. According to that pop history, it was originally a pagan feast and then the
… I thought I would post this piece I wrote long ago: The final Marian dogma—the Assumption—was promulgated in 1950. But like all doctrinal developments throughout the history of the
This weekend, we are going There and Back Again, to our Hidden Island Redoubt: There, we shall give ourselves up to jollification for days on end and return late Monday,
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