Here it is, Skaftna’s Doom. And here it is listed on SF Signal!
All posts for the month February, 2012
Back at It
I am doing pretty interesting work. I study, I read, I pray, I prepare to teach three times on Sunday, also teach other times. I have a full schedule just studying, thinking, reading and writing. I can work from home, begin at the hour of the morning I please and take as long a hiatus [...]
Posted by unknowing on February 27, 2012
http://unknowing.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/back-at-it/
A Cloud
Best cloud I’ve ever done. New paper, new way of taping the paper down, new brush, and quite the going over. I’m awfully proud of this here cloud. And now, the artist looking old and crooked. Apparently the Icelandic sweater is more suggestive of a space suit to certain types of people. Thanks to David [...]
Posted by unknowing on February 23, 2012
http://unknowing.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/a-cloud/
Yeats Reads
It is obligatory. Whenever you can, listen to the poet reading his own work. Yeats and Pound were peculiar, and Eliot was a genius. This one has a bit of introduction, so you can contrast his speaking voice and his reading voice. Remember people used to make fun C.S. Lewis & company for chanting poetry. [...]
Posted by unknowing on February 23, 2012
http://unknowing.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/yeats-reads/
The Fear of the Lord
1 Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: 2 For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence, 3 For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness, 4 For giving to simple ones—prudence, To a youth—knowledge and discretion. 5(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain [...]
Posted by unknowing on February 22, 2012
http://unknowing.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/the-fear-of-the-lord/
The North Market, C’lumbus–as they like to say
That was an enjoyable trip, the North Market. And there the food is satisfying because of the method they employ. You look at it when you order, not a picture. It makes a difference. I, of course, went with the non-arts & crafts Chicago style brat and some chili. Sensible fat chap prepared for me [...]
Posted by unknowing on February 21, 2012
http://unknowing.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/the-north-market-clumbus-as-they-like-to-say/
Over
Good vacation. I think I’m having withdrawal symptoms from Dr. Pepper or English muffins. I shall miss the bath tub. Resolved: never to live without a bath tub again. What else I miss: the trees. You can’t just go out and walk in a place alone with the trees here. Ironic since there are so [...]
Posted by unknowing on February 20, 2012
http://unknowing.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/over/
A Walk
South on Indianola, then west on Lane, and back North on High. Lane is the beginning of the OSU campus, so you walk through the houses devoted to students, past runners (their exposed legs a curious pink), past many Indian restaurants, bars, Chinese restaurants, across streets where the cars politely wait your passing. Along the [...]
Posted by unknowing on February 15, 2012
http://unknowing.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/a-walk-2/
So Far
Four liters of Dr. Pepper down. Already blew the budget on books. Got jeans. Got new laptop. Met with a person who takes pictures of dead frogs (interesting) of a Saturday morning. Bright the morning, clear the skies, snow glittering down from the wind rushing in the branches. Ended among the old books heaped and [...]
Posted by unknowing on February 13, 2012
http://unknowing.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/so-far/
AM
Morning and the world is white. The abbreviated daylight throws us off, but we needed the rest. Snow is falling, english muffins, sausage and that peculiarly bad coffee that so many Americans spend their mornings over. It is as if Colombia never existed. * * * Was in Manhattan yesterday: nice place. The subway with [...]
Posted by unknowing on February 8, 2012
http://unknowing.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/am/
Waiting for the Vacation to Begin
Back to the El Dorado airport soon. Then to the JFK and NYC. 12 hour layover in NYC, get to see the place. Also see our old pastor from Providence. I want to talk to him about my future. Then Columbus for under a fortnight. There to be among book stores again, to be able [...]
Posted by unknowing on February 6, 2012
http://unknowing.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/waiting-for-the-vacation-to-begin/
Done
Today I told the congregation that after prayer, counsel and reflection, it does not seem to the deacons, to my spiritual authority (the pastor overseeing things) or to me that it is God’s will for me to be a pastor in our congregation here. Great relief on my part. Interesting how it all went.
Posted by unknowing on February 5, 2012
http://unknowing.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/done/
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Job
Let me here set forth some early thoughts–a hypothesis which needs to be substantiated, but a guide for my research. The wisdom of Proverbs is not always taken with the subtlety of Solomon, and some measure of that subtlety is required. I myself have been exposed to people who do not take Proverbs in the [...]
Posted by unknowing on February 4, 2012
http://unknowing.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/proverbs-ecclesiastes-job/
Danker
I went to the internet roach motel to see the take-down on Straub’s recent casual article and noticed that William Frederick Danker has quit living. For those of you who don’t know, the burgundy covers of the Bauer, Danker, Arndt & Gingrich Greek-English Lexicon contain extraordinary pages. To use another lexicon after using BDAG is [...]
Posted by unknowing on February 3, 2012
http://unknowing.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/danker/
Further
The expressions of Arminius himself are so guarded that Moses Stuart (Bib. Repos., 1831) found it possible to construct and argument to prove that Arminius was not an Arminian. -Strong
Posted by unknowing on February 1, 2012
http://unknowing.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/further/
Observations Generated in the Course of Life
S.F.–however bad most of it is–is now the chief vehicle for ‘thoughts that wander up and down eternity’. How trivial, by comparison, are most of the issues presented by our ‘serious’ novelists! –C.S.Lewis opining in a letter to the Rev. Christopher Robin Paul Antsey, 2 November, 1960. Not your usual point of view on S.F., [...]
Posted by unknowing on February 1, 2012
http://unknowing.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/observations-generated-in-the-course-of-life/
For He willeth we know that the least thing shall not be forgotten
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works
Preparation of heart is the unlearning the prejudices of evil converse
If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity
