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A Star in a Stone Boat
Robert Frost: “Star in a Stone Boat” REVIEW This poem is growing on me (as do many of Frost’s poems). I always strive to understand a Frost poem in the exact way that I think he intended it to be understood but there are times when I think that he... Continue reading
Posted Oct 5, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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Five Regrets of the Dying
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The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware REVIEW Bronnie Ware has spent a good deal of her life caring for dying people. Her book is full of their stories and the messages that they conveyed to her about life as they were dying. I suspect that we... Continue reading
Posted Oct 5, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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"A life where I am not choosing stuff.”
Breathe In REVIEW It seems every few months I come across a movie that deals with the emotional causes and consequences of marital affairs. What makes a couple vulnerable to them? What makes them possible, likely, inevitable? What makes people believe that they are good ideas? What damage is caused... Continue reading
Posted Sep 30, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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“Stay Alive and Come Back to Me.”
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Tolkein REVIEW Aside from being a great origin tale for understanding where J.R.R. Tolkien got so many of his ideas for his Lord of the Rings Trilogy, this is another one of those classic love stories where a young love manages to survive the tests that young love often does... Continue reading
Posted Sep 29, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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When Loyalty Does Not Pay
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Escape at Danamora Part Seven REVIEW The last episode of the HBO series, Escape at Danamora picks up the story of inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat as they attempt to make their way from the manhole cover outside of Clinton prison in Danamora, NY to some proverbial “freedom” in... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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"voters must be free to obtain information from diverse sources "
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Dark Money REVIEW Dark Money attempts to bring to the surface the negative consequences of allowing corporate money to infest elections. It does not make any effort to show us how corporate money might be also used to enlighten them. One might argue that the sierra club and the United... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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Range Finding
Range Finding by Robert Frost https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44271/range-finding I think Robert Frost’s poem, “Range Finding” is deceptively simple in many ways but still thought provoking. First of all, you can identify it as a Petrarchan Sonnet because of the eight-line then pivot and six-line structure. A Petrarchan Sonnet will typically discuss an... Continue reading
Posted Aug 14, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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"One should be the sort of atheist who is not an atheist I suppose."
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Seven Types of Atheism REVIEW One often hears people referring to “Christians” as though that term described a singular point of view. In reality, we know that there are many kinds and many denominations of Christianity. There are Lutherans, Pentecostals, Quakers, Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, and Anglicans to name a few.... Continue reading
Posted Aug 4, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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“I had mud on my shoes and that didn’t seem right to them for a poet.”
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A Divided Poet REVIEW David Sanders’ book A Divided Poet: Robert Frost, North of Boston, and the Drama of Disappearance is a thought provoking look at Robert Frost’s conflicted relationship with the subjects of the poems in North of Boston. Each of the poems in the book receives some form... Continue reading
Posted Jul 18, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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"Love forbids you not to love"
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One More Kiss REVIEW Amor ti vieta di non amar. La man tua lieve, che mi respinge, cercava la stretta della mia man: la tua pupilla esprime: T'amo se il labbro dice: Non t'amero! Translation Love forbids you not to love That gentle hand that repulses me sought the pressure... Continue reading
Posted Jul 17, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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“The spirit of the instructor seems to be infused into the whole school.”
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Lectures in School Keeping by Samuel Reed Hall (1829) Samuel Read Hall (October 27, 1795 – June 24, 1877) was an educator and later clergyman who wrote the first teachers training manual for teachers in the United States (published in 1829 with a companion volume for female teachers in 1832).... Continue reading
Posted Jul 4, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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“The town-bred farmer failed to understand”
The Code By Robert Frost REVIEW https://poets.org/poem/code “The town-bred farmer failed to understand” Robert frost’s poem is about communication in farming culture but it applies to communication in any work culture where bosses and the people who work for them have to communicate with one another (like the place where... Continue reading
Posted Jun 26, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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The origins of influence
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The Influential Mind REVIEW Imagine hooking a wire from one mouse’s brain to another and asking mouse one to learn something that mouse two can benefit from. Sound like something from a science fiction novel? And yet it is not. Indeed, we can now wire one human up to another... Continue reading
Posted Jun 18, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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"The Welshman got it planted"
The Black Cottage by Robert Frost REVIEW https://www.bartleby.com/118/7.html I have always liked this poem. To me it is about truth that does not change and people who pretend that it can. The sons promise to come back to the cottage but the minister says “it will be hard for them... Continue reading
Posted Jun 18, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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"Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.”
Death of a Hired Man by Robert Frost https://www.bartleby.com/118/3.html. There is a lot going on in this poem. Warren and Mary (husband and wife) are discussing what to do with Silas, the hired man who has returned and collapsed near the barn. Mary has invited him in and he now... Continue reading
Posted Jun 5, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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"Like an old stone savage armed."
Mending Wall by Robert Frost Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair... Continue reading
Posted Jun 2, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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"Enchant the land with amethyst"
October by Robert Frost O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; To-morrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; To-morrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow,... Continue reading
Posted May 28, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.”
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer REVIEW “As the couple took in the hard news that the good man who was their son was now dead, so too many English took in the hard news that the dead man, who was a German, was good.” The biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a story riven... Continue reading
Posted May 26, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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"The One Absent Most"
Up late. Thinking about poetry. Waiting—Afield at Dusk by Robert Frost What things for dream there are when spectre-like, Moving among tall haycocks lightly piled, I enter alone upon the stubble field, From which the laborers’ voices late have died, And in the antiphony of afterglow And rising full moon,... Continue reading
Posted May 17, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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The Great Awakening Documents on the Revival of...
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The Great Awakening Documents on the Revival of Religion 1740-1745 REVIEW This volume of primary sources, assembled and edited by Richard Bushman, captures the zeitgeist of this pivotal period in American history in approximately forty well-selected and contextualized separate documents. The viewpoints are representative of both ministers and congregants and... Continue reading
Posted Apr 21, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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A time when “multitudes were seriously, soberly, and solemnly out of their wits.”
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Revivalism and Separatism in New England: 1740-1800 REVIEW C.C. Goen’s account of the 60 year period after the arrival of George Whitefield to the American colonies (1740) details the fascinating story of the “fractalization” of American Christianity [I invented that word I think]. It would be a mistake to infer... Continue reading
Posted Apr 20, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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Records of the Ira Baptist Church Benevolent Sewing Society
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Records of the Ira Baptist Church Benevolent Sewing Society Last week, I purchased a hand-written book of records of the Ira Baptist Church Benevolent Sewing Society. The organization was founded in May of 1847 and the record book contains annual sermons and reports, the constitution of the society, and minutes... Continue reading
Posted Mar 24, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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"Do you believe in true pure love or don't you?"
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Damsel REVIEW If someone could have gotten Mark Twain to write the script for a Thomas Hardy novel, this is what I think it would look like. The entire movie has Hardy’s dark pessimism about it but the characters and plot are all straight out of Twain’s wicked sense of... Continue reading
Posted Mar 16, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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"Others he has thrown into the vapors and despair."
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The Great Awakening REVIEW It is always so fascinating to me to discover where an idea, now manifested in an institution or assortment of institutions, was actually born. Thomas Kidd’s book The Great Awakening takes the reader back to the point in American history (specifically, 1740) where the established American... Continue reading
Posted Mar 11, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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“You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle"
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Three Identical Strangers REVIEW Every family has secrets. There is something that one partner knows that the other does not. There is something the parents know that the kids do not. There is something that the kids know that the parents do not, or that only one parent knows. There... Continue reading
Posted Feb 26, 2019 at Eucatastrophe Reader
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