“The Kings of the earth are men of might,
And cities are burned for their delight,
And the skies rain death in the silent night,
And the hills belch death all day!
But the King of Heaven,
Who made them all,
Is fair and gentle, and very small;
He lies in the straw, by the oxen’s stall
— Let them think of Him to-day!”
~Joyce Kilmer
(Art: The Adoration of the Magi by Carl Ehrenberg, 19th century)
Sweet are the uses of divinity And sweeter yet in keeping us engrossed Is the simple complex concept of the trinity The Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Is makingsense of Them too much a bother? Is there any way to master Three-in-One? The son, the Holy Ghost and Father, The Holy Ghost, the Father and the Son. I use this ancient form, the cranky sonnet To crank out my aberrant Dunciad And what evolves…
Over the course of 2022, I've completed an A-to-Z pile of books from my and my husband's collection, all things I'd never read. It was my GISH Personal Challenge from Gishmas 2021. I'd thought about giving it up when GISH ended, but I decided that it was a personal challenge, so I should keep it up for my own sake. I know it's not a spectacularly huge pile of reading for a whole year, but I really wanted to recapture some of my love of reading that had fallen by the wayside with distractions like *gestures broadly at the internet in general.* I'm already deciding which books to put on the list to read next year, but it won't be A-to-Z, as there are only so many Q books to go around.