Canon

Today, the day we honor Martin Luther King, Jr., we will reflect upon the past year of tumult and tragedy, and the legacy upon which that is built: racial oppression and discrimination. And many people will raise up and herald and praise and listen to the famous and canonical "I have a dream" speech. But

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_rhnHpRSXQ And now I feel you've left me standing/in a world that's so demanding

http://youtu.be/L8dRc9wwmuE

Lent approaches, as always, silently and without fanfare. This year, I will shape my Lenten writings around the songs of Joy Division. Consider it a commentary for a kind of Lenten soundtrack. Mind you, this is not a Christianizing of Joy Division in any way. If anything, it is a drawing of Lenten observers further

Writing is not difficult. Writing well, however, can be. And what I find as difficult as writing well is writing at all. There worst thing a writer can do instead of writing is to think about writing. By this I don't mean criticism. No, I mean thinking about the fact that I could be writing when