Saturday, August 5, 2017

Saturday Good Reads


My iPhone has become saner, and, as a result, so have I. I read an article in Wired, and realized I could turn off push notifications for Facebook, LinkedIn, and several other apps (Facebook was the worst). The beeps, gongs, rings, and pop-up windows have disappeared. I’m in control of my phone again.

Neil Ennis is an Aussie who goes on some remarkable cycling rides in Australia, and takes numerous photos and videos of the ride and the terrain. Recently, he and his wife went on a vacation – to Iceland, and did some hiking.

It’s unfortunate, but most opinion articles and op-ed articles in newspapers today have become not only predictable but repetitious. I open the editorial page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and see op-ed articles by Dana Milbank, Kathleen Parker, and Michael Gerson, and I don’t even have to read them to know what they will say, over and over and over again. An opinion article you don’t see every day is one by Bari Weiss, a staff editor for the Opinion page of The New York Times – taking the leaders of the Women’s March to task for embracing hate. My head exploded with the cognitive dissonance. An Opinion editor for The New York Times?

It was a fascinating week for poetry on the internet. Look at any of the six entries below. Better still, read all six.

And in the very first line of links below, just so you know, “Antient” is not a typo, either by me or the headline at Spitalfields Life. It’s how “ancient” used to be spelled. (Spitalfields Life has become one of my favorite blogs to read.)

British Stuff


A Little History of Lammas – A Clerk of Oxford.


Poetry

Rainy Evenings – Loren Paulsson at World Narratives.

A Spray of Feathers, Black – Phillip Williams at Tupelo Quarterly.

Eden – Ana Lisa de Jong via Facebook.

I Was Not Fit – Maureen Doallas at Writing Without Paper.

Bone Codex – Tom Darin Liskey at Boned.


Art and Photography

The Net That Caught the Sun Good – Tim Good at Pixels.

Hiking Mýrdalsjökull – Neil Ennis at Musings.

Faith

Our Lady of Czestochowa – Ann Weikers at Image Journal.

When your child leaves home, you both have to grow up – David Rupert at Red-Letter Believers.

A Love Louder Than Noise – Marlena Loughheed at Convivium.

Where Does Spiritual Doubt Come From? – Hugh Whelchel at the Institute for Faith, Work, & Economics.

Life and Culture


When Progressives Embrace Hate – Bari Weiss at The New York Times.

Writing

Overselling Your Book – Dan Balow at Steve Laube Agency.

Fiction: Astronomy Lesson – Corey Farrenkopf at JMWW Journal.



Write with Salt, Not Sugar - Mary Harwell Sayler.

Flight Lapse #01 – Milky Way – Sky Production



Painting: Man Reading (Portrait of the Artist’s Father), oil on canvas by Istvan Szonyi (1923).

2 comments:

Mary Sayler said...

Thanks, Glynn, for including my article "Writing with Salt, Not Sugar" in this week's "good reads." God bless.

Maureen said...

Thank you, Glynn, for including my poem among your other selections.