{"id":19568,"date":"2024-05-04T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19568"},"modified":"2024-05-03T22:20:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T02:20:58","slug":"light-verse-music-silence-and-saturday-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19568","title":{"rendered":"Light Verse, Music &amp; Silence, and Saturday Links"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve got a busy day today, so let me start by sharing a little light verse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You live a few days then you die<br>And sometimes you ask yourself why.<br>What could bring relief?<br>The next season&#8217;s release.<br>Go watch and the time will fly by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They&#8217;re calling to all of the sheep<br>To occupy Ivy League Street<br>Don&#8217;t think of the issues<br>Just bring down your tissues<br>And cry, yell, scream, chant, and repeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What else can I share with you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Music<\/strong>: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/canticasacra.org\/?p=13538\">Both noise and total silence destroy<\/a> all possibility of mutual understanding, because they destroy both speaking and hearing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach in Alaska\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8VHNWAhvdNE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Scotland<\/strong>: From the land of the free and the home of the brave comes this tale of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historic-uk.com\/HistoryUK\/HistoryofScotland\/Black-Agnes\/\">Black Agnes, who held Castle Dunbar<\/a> against the English for several months in 1338, saying among other things&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2018Of\u00a0 Scotland\u2019s King I haud my house,<\/em><br><em>He pays me meat and fee,<\/em><br><em>And I will keep my gude auld house,<\/em><br><em>While my house will keep me.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A New Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2024\/05\/old-men-shall-dream-dreams\">John Wilson imagines a Christian review periodical<\/a> and what it&#8217;s pushback would sound like: \u201cWe\u2019re beset on every hand by attacks on our core convictions, by enemies of our faith, and you are whining about\u00a0<em>book reviews<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Publishing<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.millersbookreview.com\/p\/puzzle-of-publishing\">More on the book business and where the money goes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of publishers it may be said that like the English as a race they are incapable of philosophy. They deal in particulars and adhere easily to Sydney Smith\u2019s dictum that one should take short views, hope for the best, and trust God.<\/p>\n<cite>William Jovanovich,\u00a0<em>Now, Barabbas<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Photo: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a busy day today, so let me start by sharing a little light verse. You live a few days then you dieAnd sometimes you ask yourself why.What could bring relief?The next season&#8217;s release.Go watch and the time will fly by. They&#8217;re calling to all of the sheepTo occupy Ivy League StreetDon&#8217;t think of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19568\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Light Verse, Music &amp; Silence, and Saturday Links<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4,9,11,12],"tags":[1669],"class_list":["post-19568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs-social-media","category-bookselling","category-music","category-poetry","category-publishing","tag-limericks"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brandywinebooks.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Associated_Stores_1976.jpg?fit=702%2C469&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19579,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19568\/revisions\/19579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}