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Destruction Before Coffee

It’s Too Early in the Day for Death I don’t rely on alarms these days. Most weekdays, between 7:00 am and 7:30 am, our one-year-old coonhound mix (Juniper) will whine and cry to be let out of her crate. After losing negotiations with my beautiful wife, I slid out of bed and let Juniper and […]

A Little Ruin and a Little Wrath

The “Bright Sadness” of Lent A Commination In older versions of the Book of Common Prayer, there’s a section called “a commination.” It has a  rather weighty variant subtitle: or denouncing of God’s anger and judgments against sinners with certain prayers to be used on the first day of Lent, and at other times, as […]

Michaelmas

It’s late September and that means that it is now culturally appropriate to embrace my spooky side. Pumpkin spice everything is all well and good, but I love the darkening days and ghost stories and howling chill that delightfully shivers. I imagine a little Edgar Allen Poe sitting on my shoulder, muttering creepy “nevermore’s” into […]

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