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“Love’s austere and lonely offices.”
'Those Winter Sundays'
by Robert Hayden
Craig Monk
104 posts
Craig Monk
@CGMonk
Conservative. Academic. “A monk who works is troubled by only one devil, while an idle monk is troubled by many.” St. John Cassian (Banner, Alex Norris)
Rossdale, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Joined July 2012
- Replying to @thomaschattwill“Mere blemishes” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that excerpt.
- Replying to @DavidStaplesYEGAnd what about the 1,000 plastic bags I bought on Amazon? 😂
- Replying to @BenWoodfindenLong, long ago blocked. Today is about grief. But *every* day is an opportunity, while leaving space for expression, to do what is necessary so one need not actively engage with toxicity.
- Replying to @jkenney and @terrynewmanI am sorry for your loss, and for the loss to the community when such a person dies.
- Replying to @terrynewmanThat immunotherapy has been a game changer. The prognosis I—or even you—would have had at her age is now just the polar opposite!
- Replying to @somsai and @thomaschattwill
- Replying to @terrynewman“Out on the Mira.” (I wish I was with them again.)
- Replying to @CV_DalcherJust noticed today that you blurbed The Other Valley. I’m such a fan of it… And of you.
- Replying to @Citizen004I’ve been thinking recently about how many people now hold and impose unspoken, universal standards, drawn on what authority I do not know. Celebrating this is, apparently, inappropriate. Someone in the replies even helpfully tells him what he should seek to celebrate.
- Replying to @terrynewmanWe’re a hell of a long way from Kansas these days. (And even further from turn-of-the-century Atlantic Canada.)
- Replying to @jonkayBecause “academic freedom,” many members of the academy walk around with a hammer in search of a nail. But we don’t talk enough about the “academic responsibility” that must accompany such privilege. To hammer indiscriminately in areas that are not our expertise causes only
- Replying to @smerconishBig fan and regular viewer. But the irony is not lost on any of us that engaging in good faith both built bridges for this man and created the vulnerable conditions in which he lost his life.
