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December 25, 2017
Matthew

“What Idol has displaced you?”

“Ye shall know them by their fruits.” -Jesus “Man of the worldly mind [. . .] do you believe in me or not?” -Marley “Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.” -Michel de Montaigne      It is that merriest of momentous festivial yearly-conclusions, when that Turkishly saint stuffs my socks with old

December 25, 2016
Matthew

Restoration

     Hello and Merry Christmas!      Did you know that, according to some Ancient Astronaut theorists, a mighty extraterrestrial, often called something like ‘Wodnes,’ descended the heavens amid that very miraculous an astronomical event—the winter solstice?  Indeed, it is true.  Good Wodnes, piloting his lofty luge, ferried along by his octet of perilous

October 31, 2016
Matthew

“The last dying call of the everlost.”

     Now we have heard tell of Moultine Monck and his deeds, the fall of young Mary, and the musicians’ tragedy.  And there is a final story here to tell.  So let us begin: Leshy Part three (part one, part two)         “If able, I would bear it, I do not

October 30, 2016
Matthew

“Road into the dark unaware.”

Leshy Part Two This is part two of a multipart short.  For part one, click here.      Ayrno Githblid, a strange called man indeed, had produced for his impoverished family fine fish dinners for weeks, plucked from a location evidently untapped.  To be sure, this fishing spot of poor man Ayrno was nearly a

October 26, 2016
Matthew

“Wept for solace and submit to faith.”

     I’ve not yet determined the necessity of an introduction to every post.  To be sure, they certainly help get the juices flowing.  I will, of course, discard this preference amid topical irrelevance if ever I spot so foolish a calamity . . . so how about this:      The cyclical reality of