a few mid-week links

Maybe Elena's sonnet "Woman's Work" is hitting me so hard because of the blog series I'm writing right now, but probably it's just because Elena's such a good poet. I really love this line:

I am human, too, and tread on floors

 which must be swept to clear a space to think.

Then, Anne Kennedy says nice things about "Let Us Keep the Feast: Advent & Christmas" - and being Anne, she's witty and fun and interesting while she does it:

So much of my life is rummaging around in cupboards in the sacristy or the church bat cave or the Sunday school cupboard looking for advent candles or black ribbon for Good Friday or tying head arrangements on assorted boys trying to beat each other with their shepherd's staffs at Christmas time or rushing out on Saturday night to acquire unto myself oranges and chocolate gold coins for the tallest man that fits my make shift bishop hat to distribute to surprised children in the middle of church on the Sunday closest to St. Nicholas Day. My home church year life is less about all that and more about the food. And that, the food I mean, Matt and I take very seriously. Eating through the church year is our spiritual act of worship, or our love language, or something.

Peace of Christ to you,
Jessica Snell