Category: Christmas
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My favorite Christmas Carol*
*this year. As someone with seasonal depression, “In the bleak mid-winter” based on the poem by Christina Rossetti from 1872, always gets me “in the feels.” I recently learned this Victorian era poet suffered from “melancholy” (depression) herself. The first and last stanza say so much with an economy of words: “earth as hard as…
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The First Nowell – AS&AF S3 Ep. 1
I’m making a goal for season 3 of my music podcast to have blog post attached to it. It will let the listeners learn a little more about the guest, the song, and or the topics. Click here if you haven’t heard the episode yet… As mentioned, Sarah and I met while part of a…
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Good King Wenceslas (~10 years on)
Tom Adamson and the Texarkana Two – “Good King Wenceslas” Click this link. “It’s still Christmas!” This was the common refrain of Jarod Pearson of St. Agnes’ parish in Cowan, Tennessee, each year after Dec. 25. It was something I admired in him, a gentle application of catholic tradition to a southern, Anglican spirituality. The…
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