“THE ANNUNCIATION”
SECTION TWO OF WH AUDEN’S “FOR THE TIME BEING” (FTTB)
(for section one, click here)
Auden locates the Annunciation in “The Garden,” which we seem led to believe is Garden of Eden. In that Garden, each of…
“THE ANNUNCIATION”
SECTION TWO OF WH AUDEN’S “FOR THE TIME BEING” (FTTB)
(for section one, click here)
Auden locates the Annunciation in “The Garden,” which we seem led to believe is Garden of Eden. In that Garden, each of…
“Silent night, Holy night…all is calm, all is bright.”
Just days from now —and like Christians all around the globe— we’ll sing these words on Christmas Eve. We’ll light our candles, hold them high, and experience a brief, blissful moment…
The Sunday before Advent starts, we actually get a pretty good reminder of the power of Incarnational Seeing. Incarnational seeing is my language for what others call the spiritual practice of “paying attention.” There is a lot of buzz in…
Read more“Die Hard” is to Christmas movies, what this song is to Christmas music.
Listeners will no doubt forever debate whether it is, or is not, a Christmas song. One thing is clear: It definitely creeps into playlists this time of…
Read moreOn this Thanksgiving morning, I’m posting a picture that shows you what I see every day as I am driving home from North Oak Cliff. This pic from the great Justin Terveen shows a much more swollen river than usual…I…
Read moreToday is the sixty-year anniversary.
Sixty years is a very long time.
But, for all of us who grew up here in Dallas, our city still lives with the legacy of the Kennedy assassination.
This is a very old song…
Read moreToday’s trip down baseball’s memory lane are two Sports Illustrated covers, from this week in time, 50 years apart.
The first is from the first week of November 1975, following the thrilling victory of “The Big Red Machine” over the…
We interrupt this week’s baseball posts for: Quadrophenia.
The album was released fifty years ago this week. One of my all time faves, it’s at or near the top of my “Desert Island” list.
Later, of course, the film version…
Read moreIt is not an exaggeration to say that I wept openly last night.
It is not an exaggeration to say that as Dennise, Maria, and I leapt from our chairs, into the middle of the room —all in mutual tears…
Read moreToday’s blast from baseball’s past is this screaming headline from the Cincinnati Post, and more Cincinnati Reds memorabilia from the box in my closest.
As we’ve covered previously, my Dad bestowed me with a generational a love of the Reds…
Read moreToday’s baseball blast-from-the-past is this actual line up card from a Texas Rangers game on Sunday, October 2, 1977.
I am sure I bought this at a memorabilia convention somewhere in the Dallas area.
Probably at a Holiday Inn with…
Among folks have a certain age in North Texas, saying you were present for the major league debut of David Clyde is akin to what folks say about Woodstock: A lot more people say they were there than who likely…
Read moreThis will be my first Texas Rangers World Series without my Dad. As I wrote the other day, I got so much of the joy/heartbreak of baseball from my Father. If I am honest, I put my baseball addiction away…
Read moreSixty-two years.
Two Times.
One Game.
One Strike.
Whatever you think of our passion for our Texas Rangers, I have more baseball math for you this morning.
You may still think we (me) are (am) too cocky, brash, and…
Read moreThis morning, at the conclusion of a truly entertaining ALCS between the Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros, I am thinking of the visionary leadership of Tom Vandergriff.
Vandergriff was a visionary not only because of his work to…
Read moreWhen I was a kid, my grandfather Mays gave me his copy of the “Encyclopedia of Baseball.” At the time, it was a one volume set that kept all the records of every team, every player, from the very beginning…
Read moreWith some trepidation, I’ll share a few thoughts on the Jason Aldean song controversy. I’d like to speak to what I’m hearing from all sides of this debate…commenting a bit as both preacher and songwriter. In this critique, I will…
Read moreDear Kessler Park Members and Friends:
What follow is a longish summary of what has just taken place this week as the North Texas Conference met in Plano, Texas. I can’t apologize for the length. Because, honestly, a LOT happened…
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