Calm down. Be still.
We’ve got plenty of time to kill.
No hand writing on the wall:
just the voice that’s in us all.
And you’re whispering to me,
time to get up off my hands and knees,
’cause if I beg for it, it won’t come.
I find nothing but table crumbs.
My hands are empty. God, I’ve been naive.
Audio
“Christmas Day” by Holst
“Christmas Day – a choral fantasy on old carols” by Gustav Holst, performed by Ensemble Corund und Solisten of Zürich, Switzerland.
Mark Helprin Interview
Listening to this this morning:
Stephen Colbert Reads Flannery O’Connor
Select Shorts offers this performance for Southern literature lovers (via Jeffrey Overstreet).
Bobette Buster with Eric Metaxas
Two writers talk about story on The Eric Metaxas Show. “The point of living is to become fully alive.” Storytelling is part of that life.