Eirenicole

A recent conversation with my mother regarding the use of [sic] following quoted material that uses less than perfect form has piqued my awareness of all the venues ripe for [sic]-ified language.  A Facebook correspondence initiated our musings, but a text-conversation I just had with my daughter was pure gold, and I had to reproduce…

… stooping very low, He engraves with careHis Name, indelible, upon our dust,And, from the ashes of our self-despair,Kindles a flame of hope and humble trust.He seeks no second site on which to build,But on the old foundation, stone by stone,Cementing sad experience with grace,Fashions a stronger temple of His own.… Patricia St. John (1919-1993), from “The…

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. (Ps. 51.10) Today is Ash Wednesday and the pull of the Lenten season and the rhythm of the traditions of our faith is very strong on me.  I long to be in the midst of a community of…