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Here at the End of All Things
“I’m glad to be with you Samwise Gamgee… here at the end of all things.” — Frodo NYE 2017
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yoked to toil
“He who wants to enter the holiness of the day must first lay down the profanity of clattering commerce, of being yoked to toil. He must go away from the screech of dissonant days, from the nervousness and fury of acquisitiveness and the betrayal in embezzling his own life. He must say farewell to manual…
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Why I, an Adult, Believe in Santa by Lancelot Schaubert
Why I, an Adult, Believe in Santa is an article I wrote four years ago and it seemed fitting to read for The Best Christmas Stories because it’s something of a meta-story about Christmas in general — particularly the mythos of Santa and why that’s a good thing:
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The Little Guest by Margery Williams Bianco
For the Best Christmas Stories, we’re now reading The Little Guest by Margery Williams Bianco. Really love the ending to this one.
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Vulnerare by Lancelot Schaubert
Here’s one of my own — one of the poems I recently posted on here — for the Best Christmas Stories, a poem called Vulnerare. I’m also using this to splinter off into a third podcast which will eventually compose poetry readings.
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Santa Claus: A Psychograph by Gamaliel Bradford
For my annual readings of The Best Christmas stories, here is Santa Claus: A Psychograph by Gamaliel Bradford. It’s a wonderful bit about the psychology behind a man who would want to travel around the world giving to others. As well as the psychology of those who hope to emulate him by participating in the mythos:
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My First Christmas Tree by Hamlin Garland
Getting into the momentum here reading one an hour for our annual tradition of the best Christmas stories. You’ll be able to tell Tara and I are enjoying relaxing to the sounds of Christmas all around us… relaxing enough that I botched the intro on My First Christmas Tree by Hamlin Garland like eight times. Here’s My…
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The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot
In keeping with the annual tradition of reading the best Christmas stories for adults (as well as the best Christmas stories for kids and the best Christmas poems), here is The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot: As you’ll hear in the recording, I was clued into The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot by Professor…
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Cuckoo’s Calling Discussion for BOOK CLUB!
It’s time to talk through The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith! I’ll start off the discussion with this question: The theme of fame and misfortune takes the center stage in the Cuckoo’s Calling. Knowing that Robert Galbraith is J.K. Rowling’s pseudonym, how do you think she is processing through fame in anonymity? Certainly book one of…
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Funeral Eulogy for My Grandpa Deno Bubba
This year I had planned on staying in NYC the whole holiday season, but my grandfather passed away very, very suddenly on Saturday morning, so we grabbed an emergency flight back to Illinois, rolled into town for the visitation on Monday night and I performed the funeral eulogy and graveside services on Tuesday. Tara recorded the…
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Vulnerare
In the Christmas Carols are the covered truths About the battered beauties who then love Despite the signs, the signaled fears That cue our cowing, that create our fights And fletch our flights with the feathers of something That kidnaps our courage. They execute a Plan as if plotting, as if placing a mole Merrymaking…
