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Go Down in the Lonesome Valley
Suffering and sublimity -- and no words to describe it.
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SLANG
In which you get the fantods, or catch a can of corn, or finagle an extra ace from up your sleeve, or end up in Sing-Sing!
May 18
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"Octopus's Garden"
The only kind of a garden that suits our springtime weather in New England!
May 16
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Debra Esolen
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Eden, the Secret Garden, and preparing boys and girls for love
Let's return to those gardens long left untended!
May 15
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The Secret Garden (1949)
Here's a film in which a man's shut heart is unlocked -- by three children and a garden.
May 14
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The Mower's Song
Good humor, shrewd wit, and penetrating observation -- a mower, meadows, and love. Can't miss!
May 13
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"Christ Hath a Garden"
Isaac Watts reminds us who the Gardener is, and what we are to become.
May 12
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GARDEN
On gardens, yards, towns, and an old Italian man doing what he liked best.
May 11
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"Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme"
Here's to turning an ancient ballad into a song for the ages.
May 9
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Debra Esolen
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Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
An ode on what the memories of childhood can mean, when the childhood is past.
May 8
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Anthony Esolen
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Brother Orchid (1940)
A comedy of errors and redemption, with the great Edward G. Robinson -- yeah, see?
May 7
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Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
From Italy, Browning recalls England in the spring, and common beauties...
May 6
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