http://inkanblot.com/blog we mark up the back of the envelope; the letter addresses us Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:48:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...that this is, even as its name roughly suggests, something of a musical and thematic bookend to the Western tradition since the Renaissance: (though my more musically precise friends can feel free to correct me) http://inkanblot.com/blog/2009/10/05/it-occurs-to-me/ Stuck Right Here http://inkanblot.com/blog/2009/09/17/in-trouble-from-the-start/ ...and liked it. I'm very grateful! This was awarded the Kent Keeth Poetry Prize (a student literature contest award) at the 2009 Beall Poetry Festival at Baylor University: Disclosure If someone should speak Peace it will not be The silencing of voices all resolved, in pacification, Nor the pacific strain—stout Cortez or Balboa ... http://inkanblot.com/blog/2009/03/26/someone-read-it/ Hard to argue with this, really: If, robbed of two fond old enormities, Our being had no onward auguries, What then were this great love of ours to say For launching other lives to voyage again A little farther into time and pain, A little faster in a futile chase For a kingdom and a power and ... http://inkanblot.com/blog/2009/02/23/wheel-in-the-sky-keeps-on-turnin/ I believe that Jesus Christ, whose dead body was entombed, sealed, placed under guard, and left undisturbed until the morning after the Sabbath (on the third day in which he had been dead), did not remain dead. Like those whom Christ and the prophets had called back from death ... http://inkanblot.com/blog/2009/02/20/credo-v/ My sanity is borne on rivers, meandering; yet rivers know their course, an end predestined, not assured, or not predestined but assured; and yet in cities they are still, the same. Four rivers, then; four that define the cities where I loved them; for I know I may be smoothed and worn, but I am coarse like the stubble that ... http://inkanblot.com/blog/2008/12/16/my-sanity-is-borne-on-rivers/ The Ferry I kneel and bow and pray you come with me, And we will dance beneath these scattered lights, Concealed for days by dawn’s diviner rites, Until each night unseals our wait and see. Dance with me as I ask on bended knee: Awash in ocean’s orchestrated nights, Afloat in inky blackness that indicts Another reason, no, ... http://inkanblot.com/blog/2008/06/27/dancing/ All knowing is adversely affected by the fall, yet people can—under the right conditions—attain reasonable beliefs on the things that matter most. (Doug Groothuis, "The Christian Worldview in Classical Philosophical Categories") True enough. But "the right conditions" remain critical, and open to interpretation in lieu of an eschatological realization: crucial, ... http://inkanblot.com/blog/2008/06/13/operant-conditioning/ I believe that Jesus Christ willingly went to death for my sake, and that of other believers; that his death was unjustly ordered by collusion of the Roman Pontius Pilate, the Jewish Sanhedrin, and the Hellenic collaborator King Herod; that he was publicly executed by crucifixion, known to be dead ... http://inkanblot.com/blog/2008/05/13/credo-iv/ (Comment Me No Comments: YouTube - Johnny Cash Hurt) OK, so there's something reflexive about this. At my other blog, I posted for those interested in watching the videos. This is theory, or something like it. The Nine Inch Nails video is manifestly an attempt to do something very like Artaud's Theatre ... http://inkanblot.com/blog/2008/05/13/hurting-the-theatre-of-cruelty/