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Commonplace Book

A virtual scrapbook of wonder-filled thoughts, big ideas, and beautiful miscellany.

The Sound of Easter

Hope, yes, and victory too. But also a longing – the ever-present not yet – that pierces the soul.

'What the Bird Said Early in the Year'

A poem by C.S. Lewis to break the spell

‘Our little systems have their day’

Selections from Tennyson from the poet for bruised believers.

'Often the Dying Ask for a Map'

Poem by B.H. Fairchild, published in Image Journal

'Let's not be sentimental about beauty.'

James K.A. Smith on Beauty, Gregory of Nyssa, and a quietly stunning poem.

'After reading our daughter's poem'

'the tiniest bird fell from above them, where it belonged, to land below them, where it did not.'