Post #337

There!  I do have a post in the wings, as Dan suggested in Post #336, but I wanted to make sure Dan posted his poem properly first, and then I wanted to also extend a proper invitation, following Josh's comment to Kirsten's last post. (Read the comments, people!)

Dan's poem, I told him, deserves more than a side link, and so it gets more than a side comment too.  Josh, I'll bet this is not what you had in mind for your jukebox project, but I gotta say, it works, it fits.  And leave it to Dan to insist on getting Dostoevsky and Shakespeare into his agin and agin lists.  But why not?  And for the same reasons Josh gives us, too: to celebrate our variety, to show a part of what makes us tick, to keep thinking about what we want to share.  So, from here: Dick, a list of books to recommend; Anne, your favorite handmade posts (share!); me, I don't know, maybe my favorite rivers...  Josh, feel free to steer us back from this, but I do like the variety this Symposia can have!

And on that note, welcome to our newest author: Andrea Lamken!  Okay, she hasn't authored anything for us yet, but she was informally invited two weeks ago after she expressed an appreciation for Kirsten's agin and agin list, and she has been formally invited through the blog administration process.  Andrea, we look forward to hearing from you.  And, by the way, we aren't purposefully skipping over Lena and Tilo or any of the other cousins - in fact, get the word out, we'd love to get more of you on to the blog.  All are welcome, just let me know and give me an email address and I'll send out the formal invite.

My next post (#338) was written a day or two before Dan's, and it shares the same quartet structure, although less akin to the S2L2 theme, more in appreciation of T.S. Eliot's focus on the classical elements. I've just posted it as an entry to Parabola Magazine's 2015 Poetry of the Sacred Contest, a venue I stumbled across last year that is sponsored by the Center for Interfaith Relations.  I haven't looked deeply into the organization, but to give a sense of their perspective they are currently celebrating the 100th birthday of Thomas Merton.  I surely do not know enough about him to qualify for this contest, but I'm giving it a shot.