Kingfishers, Dragonflies, and Stones

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme; / As tumbled over rim in roundy wells / Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's / Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; / Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: / Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; / Selves -- goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, / Crying Whát I do is me: for that I came.// Í say móre: the just man justices/ [Gerard Manley Hopkins]

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In "Four Cultures of the West," John O'Malley, SJ, showed us how to read the open book of our own personal experience and look at what we find there. This is what I find about family and friends, academics and humanism, religion and the rule of law.

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Old Verse Renewed


Virtues Three

Steeples fall down,
Cardinals mutter,
Bishops enflock,
Pope in stutter.

Agog on a blog
I threw thunder
At church in a lurch,
Crumbling asunder

Still, love feels.
Gloom dwindles.
Hope gone wan
Stirs faith’s kindles.
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