Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. Blaise Pascal
Sallie at Two Talent Living is sponsoring the 2005 Blogs of Beauty Awards for “female bloggers who bring beauty to the world of blogdom.” You can email nominations to Sallie through November 29th.
Amanda Witt posted a beautiful poem by Antoine de Saint Exupery on Sunday called “Generation to Generation.”
“We live, not by things, but by the meanings
of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords
from generation to generation.”
Joseph Bottum at First Things led me to this poem, After 9/11 by Charles Martin published in The Hudson Review.
We went up on our roof and saw first one
And then the other silently unmake
Its outline, horrified, as it slid down,Leaving a smear of ashes in its wake.
Well worth your poetry reading time.
I just discovered the children’s literature blog Chicken Spaghetti this week and added it to my bloglines. Susan Thomsen writes about Rudyard Kipling in Vermont, or the Raj meets America’s Winter Playground.
According to Carolyn at Solo Femininity, Joshua Harris (he who long ago kissed dating good-bye) preached this sermon last Sunday: “Courtship, Shmourtship: What Really Matters In Relationships.” You can listen to the sermon online.
Suitable for Mixed Company has a US history lesson. If you have a couple of million dollars lying around, you might be able to purchase a US battle flag captured by the British during the Revolution and bring the flag back home.
Speaking of revolutionaries (and Harrises), The Rebelution, a blog written by Joshua Harris’s younger twin brothers, has some good reflections on the disturbing case of David Ludwig and Kara Borden. If you haven’t read about this case in the news, suffice it to say that Mr. Ludwig, a homeschooled teenager, murdered his girlfriend Kara’s parents, and the two ran away together. The police later caught Ludwig and determined that Kara went with him willingly. Rebelutionary Alex says (wisely, I believe):
Being homeschooled did not prevent this tragedy; growing up in a Christian environment did not prevent this tragedy; bearing many signs of true faith and an understanding of the Gospel did not prevent this tragedy; these are harsh, but necessary truths that demand humility. Hard to swallow as it is, what happened in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is not an exception, it’s fallen man’s default.