Saturday Haiku: Winter Storm

  On a winter’s day

       nature casts her icy net

       brings a fierce sabbath

                             

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Photo: Birmingham News photo, "when a snowstorm brought travel to a halt."
Credit: Joe Songer at http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2014/01/birmingham_winter_storm_qa_for.html



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Monday Music: The Pleiades and Orion

John Michael Talbot is another of those "pioneers in contemporary Christian music" whose recording career took off during the "Jesus Movement" of the 1970s. Talbot went on to become a lay brother in the Franciscan Order in the Catholic Church later founded the order of The Brothers and Sisters of Charity. "The Pleiades and Orion" was recorded in 1981 on the double album, Troubadour of the Great King, on the occasion of the 800th birthday of St. Francis of Assisi. The text for the song is based upon Amos 5:8.

 

Saturday Haiku: Clouds

   Fleeting and changing,

        the canopy of the world

        makes hearts look upward.

  

                                 ~ CK

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Photo: Skies of Central Utah
Credit: Scott Wright of Scott Wright Photography



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