And now, Hannah Cathryne Webster performing “Swan Lake” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Monthly Archives: October 2007
How to Read the Bible For All Its Worth – The Prophets
The Egg & I
U2 – Beautiful Day
The Cure – Disintegration
I have recently come to understand that much of my melancholy is just indulgent. I readily believe the worst about myself when I should not. These lyrics are just (struggling here), magnificent. My confession of indulgence notwithstanding, it is just beautiful and heartbreaking and hopeful all at the same time
oh i miss the kiss of treachery
the shameless kiss of vanity
the soft and the black and the velvety
up tight against the side of me
and mouth and eyes and heart all bleed
and run in thickening streams of greed
as bit by bit it starts the need
to just let go
my party piece
oh i miss the kiss of treachery
the aching kiss before i feed
the stench of a love for a younger meat
and the sound that it makes
when it cuts in deep
the holding up on bended knees
the addiction of duplicities
as bit by bit it starts the need
to just let go
my party piece
i never said i would stay to the end
so i leave you with babies and hoping for frequency
screaming like this in the hope of the secrecy
screaming me over and over and over
i leave you with photographs
pictures of trickery
stains on the carpet and
stains on the scenery
songs about happiness murmured in dreams
when we both us knew
how the ending would be…
so it’s all come back round to breaking apart again
breaking apart like i’m made up of glass again
making it up behind my back again
holding my breath for the fear of sleep again
holding it up behind my head again
cut in deep to the heart of the bone again
round and round and round
and it’s coming apart again
over and over and over
now that i know that i’m breaking to pieces
i’ll pull out my heart
and i’ll feed it to anyone
crying for sympathy
crocodiles cry for the love of the crowd
and the three cheers from everyone
dropping through sky
through the glass of the roof
through the roof of your mouth
through the mouth of your eye
through the eye of the needle
it’s easier for me to get closer to heaven
than ever feel whole again
i never said i would stay to the end
i knew i would leave you with babies and everything
screaming like this in whole of sincerity
screaming it over and over and over
i leave you with photographs
pictures of trickery
stains on the carpet
stains on the memory
songs about happiness murmured in dreams
when we both of us knew
how the end always is
how the end always is…
Under the Sun
I have thought often (mostly as I read other blogs) that I do not (or at least heretofore have not) use (used) this blog to, well, blog.I suppose this is because I already have a platform to say what I believe I ought to say in my classroom – whether at church or school.
So here’s my attempt at a certified, actual blog entry:
Today, in between watching my two children, playing video games, rubbing shoulders with friends at a bonfire, and (here’s the blog fodder) watching parts of about 10 different football games – a thought occurred to me.
Though I am indeed glad that the Michigan Wolverines defeated Illinois in football this evening, it is all, well, vanity.
Meaningless. “A chasing after the wind” to quote Qohelet in Ecclesiastes.
Everything is meaningless under the sun.
Those last three words are the key.
Under the sun is a Hebraism (a Hebrew figure of speech) for “Outside of God”.
Simply stated, friends, keep perspective.
Never love anything or anyone more than Him.
They are but candles to the Sun.
Go, to quote Clive Staples Lewis – “further up & further in”…
See you Monday.