Collecting My Thoughts

Advent Sunday by Christina Georgina Rossetti Behold, the Bridegroom cometh: go ye out With lighted lamps and garlands round about To meet Hi...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox  1850 – 1919 What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old...

 The Party's faith in Sustainability, a poem (by Norma Bruce, based on an idea in  How Sustainability is Becoming the One True Corporate...

Since it's October 1, I thought I'd post the October poem by Robert Frost, but some critic spoiled my plan by reminding the reader t...

“I mean, so the idea that we’re going to make a judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort a child b...

“The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one mo...

Start the day with a poem. "G.K. Chesterton’s beloved wife, Frances, had a special devotion to the Nativity. It was Frances, not Gilber...

We'll be putting our Lakeside house on the market soon (turn key) so I'm removing personal items. Came across this poem about our La...

 I think I'm in my 5th day of packing and pitching--my professional files (if you think I write a lot now, it's nothing like the 199...

Although this is a challenge for Catholic schools and churches, it applies to all worship leaders and educators: poetry and music. Even when...

Normal day, let me be aware                of the treasure you are.            Let me learn from you,            love you, savo...

I’m old enough to have actually attended a poetry reading by Robert Frost, one of the 20th century’s most famous and favorite poets, when...

THE TRAIN: At birth we boarded the train and met our parents, and we believe they will always travel by our side. As time goes by, other pe...

November By Maggie Dietz Show's over, folks. And didn't October do A bang-up job? Crisp breezes, full-throated cries Of mig...

They came for the bakers,  but I had nothing to sell, and said so; they came for the florists,  but I had no wedding, and looked awa...

When I'm an old lady, I'll live with each kid Joanne Bailey Baxter (see comments in this blog)   http://suitableformixedcompany.blo...

I heard this lovely poem recited at the end of a very complex lecture on theology and history by Charles Craigmile, but without attribution....

“If, many years from now someone were to live in your home, what would you want them to know about it? What does house and home mean to you?...

Three Word Wednesday gives writers, poets and those who journal a mid-week jolt of creativity. Each week, three words are selected; you cr...

Three Word Wednesday gives writers, poets and those who journal a mid-week jolt of creativity. Each week, three words are selected; and par...