Dappled Things

GLORY be to God for dappled things…

Category: Nostalgia

Heraclitus

Heraclitus Translation of Callimachus’ 2d Epigram
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remember’d how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
And now that thou art [...]

Twelve + Thirteen

I was going through some pictures the other day. Pictures that I had neatly packed into a clear, plastic tub in an effort to be more organized. Unfortunately, the tub was thrown into the spare bedroom that is the home to all the homeless things in this house. Lily wants desperately to have this room [...]

The Friday 5

What was…
1. …your first grade teacher’s name?
Mrs. Desrosiers. I was so shy in her class that I would refuse to come up to the table at the front of the room with my reading group to practice reading. I really loved Mrs. Desrosiers, but I will never forget the day that she literally pulled me [...]