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To make this thread more readable and to make it easier to find a specific topic, I have created separate threads for each topic and just point/link to them from here. We will continue to bump this thread, but not the other threads I created. Please, do not bump the "subject" threads I will be linking to from here. We do not want to flood the first page with all those threads. To do so would knock threads from members asking for help, etc. off the first page and would be counter-productive! |
The following thread contains the information we need to help you find a layout that works for you and your family as well as how to draw up and label a floor plan. http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg010521247761.html http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg0508230128712.html When you post a layout for comments, please do not take the comments you receive personally. Everyone here is trying to help, not criticize maliciously. We want you to have a kitchen that, in the end, functions wonderfully well and looks nice overall. This may mean that some of us may tear apart your layout and rebuild it to what we think will work better, but it's done with good intentions. We're not the best at just "validating" someones layout, we're best at critiquing! I will warn you that most of us here are "function over form" (or "function first")...meaning we strive first for a functional layout and then fit the form or look around it. It is far easier to make a functional kitchen look nice than it is to make a nice looking but dysfunctional kitchen functional. So, if you are a form/looks over function person, be sure to state that when you post. Some people here think "function over form" means that we want all kitchens to look the same....not true! What we do want is all kitchens to function well...which means that in 99% of the cases, the workflow is the same...so that will mean some similarities due to workflow. However, as each kitchen is unique, each will have its own unique quirks, etc. In the end, remember this is your kitchen. You don't have to make any of the recommended changes if you don't want to! [Note: If you're just posting for validation of your layout (i.e., you don't want comments that suggest changes), state that as well. If you don't, people will comment on it! Warning: People may comment anyway, it's tough to let a kitchen go that you think is dysfunctional and will cause angst later...especially if it's not yet installed and we think we can help. Bear with us, we're just trying to help!] |
Planning your storage, including where items are commonly stored. http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg010523449014.html |
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Bookmarking threads so you can find them later or saving them so you have them (and associated pictures) ''forever'' http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg0105292031876.html Note: As of Summer 2012, iVillage changed the thread lists & history functionality so that old threads can be resurrected. However, once a thread falls off of page 67, you will still need the URL of that thread to bring it back up. What has changed is that now if you bump the thread, it will re-appear in the list of threads. While this may be useful for some, it does have the potential for pushing newer threads with more recent information and those asking for help off the first few pages faster. I would like to ask everyone to use discretion in resurrecting old threads. Yes, some have a lot of useful information, but I would like to suggest we create a "Library" of such threads as part of the FAQ rather than bringing them back to the thread list. |
Steps to sealing a stone surface, if it needs it. http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg0105254810134.html |
How to gel-stain cabinets. http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg0105280230861.html |
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Big BUMP to make up for having been out of town. Will have to think of what game to play Angie. :) |
We could do music lyrics -- like one of us gives an obsure lyric and the others have to find the song. Or poetry.... Like: The red rose whispers of passion, |
And the white rose breathes of love; |
O the red rose is a falcon, |
Angie, the next line is And the white rose is a dove. |
And to finish it: But I send you a cream-white rosebud Thanks, tea4all. Not sure this game works with google, but also think it ONLY works because of it! Hmm.... One more try: The night is freezing fast, |
Bump please. Angie, honestly I could not have found "A White Rose" by John Boyle O'Reilly if it weren't for google. :) My DH is great with songs but that one stumped him. So google it was. How did you know that Irish song/poem? It is lovely. |
Tea4all: Yeah, that is exactly why I was expressing ambivalence. I am not sure it makes sense to make someone guess the poem when the first line is googleable. Sooooo, what to do? What do we like about the musical bumps? We get to share some of our faves. No reason we cannot just do THAT with poetry! Let's go with a standard today: That time of year thou mayst in me behold In me thou seest the twilight of such day In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, |
Here is a link that might be useful: That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold
A somewhat similar theme, but worlds apart and more fitting, perhaps, to this forum: A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty (Ogden Nash) Unwillingly Miranda wakes, Miranda in Miranda's sight Shining like the morning star, Silly girl, silver girl, Time is timelessness for you; Oh, Night will not see thirty again, |
Here's a poem that shows my age. Many tv stations used to sign off with this and the national anthem at the end of their broadcasting day. It's called High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue |
Here is a link that might be useful: High Flight
You guys are great! OK, I ain't got no lyrics But I got this. I suppose you could guess what he's singing about. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Hoyt Axton
T.S. Eliot: note the kitchen reference! And interestingly, the fabled basement kitchen that we have discussed from time to time here. Morning at the Window The brown waves of fog toss up to me |
I, Too. I, too, sing America. Tomorrow, Besides, I, too, am America. by Langston Hughes |
BUMP Angie, I like the T.S. Eliot poem. It is so, "of the moment" when read. |
Bump another Langston Hughes poem. This one because I LOVE RIVERS!!! I will add a link that has a recording of Hughes providing a background of the writing of this poem and him reading the poem. The Negro Speaks of Rivers I've known rivers: My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I've known rivers: My soul has grown deep like the rivers. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Langston Hughes recording
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Enduring: Excellent choices! I bought a Langston Hughes anthology at a used bookstore recently but haven't delved in. Thanks for that! The Oven Bird There is a singer everyone has heard, |
OK Angie, you amaze me with all of your broad reaching talents. This poem stumps me. I read it and read it. Literal and figuratively trying to understand it. I had my DH read it aloud and that helped. Because of the title I kept trying to make a turkey out of the bird. Then asked about turkey habits because we have turkeys in the woods across the road. I live in central Iowa. So reallizing this is no turkey I looked up Robert Frost and The Oven Bird. This is what I've found and I will link it to you. I haven't read the whole thing yet. I need to go out and feed my own mythological animals, 4 horses. I hope you enjoy reading this link. It is long. |
Here is a link that might be useful: A Close Look at Robert Frost by John Hollander.
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Enduring: Thanks for the that link. Don't be impressed -- I didn't write it! Ironically, the Oven Bird is a warbler that is pretty common. The reason I thought of it was that there was one in my yard, and a friend pointed it out. I could guess it was a warbler, but had no idea which one. Frost ASSUMED that people would know about the oven bird. I did not know it by name or by habit or by sight. Ohh, let'd do another standard! If thou must love me... (Sonnet 14) If thou must love me, let it be for nought |
On the eve of the election: I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman |
That's a great poem for our time Angie. Thanks. Hope everyone votes today if they haven't already voted early. I've no poem, just a quote attributed to John Quincy Adams. "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." |
Oh Angie, I didn't think you wrote "The Oven Bird" :) Just that you found it and it is so unusual. Then I found that essay on the poem. But even so I still stand by my assessment that you are talented in so many ways. Both poems recently posted are so different. The Walt Whitman poem is perfect for today. VOTED Tea4all, perfect quote for our country. If we could all get in touch with our principles - really take time to reflect on this. |
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Today's selection is a little lengthy. Here is the ending. See link for the whole thing. From ..... Lift up your eyes upon Women, children, men, The horizon leans forward, Here, on the pulse of this new day |
Here is a link that might be useful: Whole text of On the Pulse of Morning
- Posted by breezygirl (My Page) on Wed, Nov 7, 12 at 16:54
I've been out of the thread bumping loop since Disneyland. I love the new and poetic twist! Not on the level of such poetry as above, but this song has been running through my head for two days: If you want to make a snowman Can you guess? |
Here is a link that might be useful: The song stuck in my head
I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale I am not yours, not lost in you, You love me, and I find you still Oh plunge me deep in love -- put out |
My Childhood Home I See Again My childhood home I see again, O Memory! thou midway world And, freed from all that's earthly vile, As dusky mountains please the eye As leaving some grand waterfall, Near twenty years have passed away Where many were, but few remain The friends I left that parting day, I hear the loved survivors tell I range the fields with pensive tread, |
Both of those are melancholy, wouldn't you say? Here is one I've liked and have shared with patients that I've cared for. The Guest House This being human is a guest house. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Welcome and entertain them all! The dark thought, the shame, the malice, Be grateful for whoever comes, ~ Rumi ~ |
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Yes, I think they were a bit melancholy. I had actually rejected a number of MORE melancholy ones for the same reason! You can't complain about that with this one! Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18) Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? |
And now for something completely different! The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead At fourteen I married, My Lord, you. At fifteen I stopped scowling, At sixteen you departed, You dragged your feet when you went out. |
- Posted by breezygirl (My Page) on Sat, Nov 10, 12 at 3:26
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As an aside, check out what Walt said about women in this poem: 318. Poem of Remembrance for a Girl or a Boy by Walt Whitman (from Leaves of Grass) You just maturing youth! You male or female! |
Seems appropriate for a kitchen forum! A Lemon Out of lemon flowers Delicate merchandise! Cutting the lemon So, while the hand |
I feel lemon! |
Today I feel quiet. Bump. |
Bump from a tired & sore gal who is struggling to learn her PT exercises. Aging is not for the faint of heart. :) |
Children by Khalil Gibran And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, 'Speak to us of Children.' And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable. |
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable. Such a lovely passage. Thanks Angie for your creativity and generosity. And...bump! |
I enjoyed Khalil Gibran. Thanks, Angie. It's been a while since I read Gibran. Here's a mellow poem that captures the slower and peaceful pace of life. Days of Tea and Sunshine on a tablecloth of lace She's laid out her cups of china in their dignity and grace She's set the wicker rockers near the morning glory vine and she's taking off her apron for the clock has struck its chime It's early Sunday evening and the supper table's spread with her bowl of homemade jelly and her plate of fresh-baked bread. Three- minute eggs are ready as he steps through the screen door to their days of tea and sunshine ...golden days they've had in store... While the balmy breezes rustle summer leaves upon the tree ...the golden couple reminisces of the things that use to be Then a neighbor stops to linger near the steps, at end of day to partake of tea and sunshine in the good old-fashioned way Many summers have they lived there many falls and winters, too Many promises of springtime kept their faces bright and new Now, they're happy, though they're aging ...just to see the daytime's end and to share the tea and sunshine from their back porch once again. |
Tonight, I made homemade crackers with various toppings and served them with chili. Fun! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Olive oil crackers
A Coat William Butler Yeats I made my song a coat |
Oldbat2be thanks for the yummy recipe link! Looks so good! Bump this puppy to stay on pg 1. |
A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe Take this kiss upon the brow! I stand amid the roar |
Forgive me, the only poetry which resounds deeply is Robert W. Service, The Cremation of Sam McGee. My father paid me to memorize it and I can still recite the full poem :) |
Wow! You can recite the whole thing? Robert Service (1874-1958) There are strange things done in the midnight sun |
Here is a link that might be useful: The rest of the poem
Richard Corey by Edwin Arlington Robinson Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, "Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked. And he was rich -- yes, richer than a king, And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place. So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head. |
Okay, we had to have this one at some point: ODE ON A GRECIAN URN By John Keats Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed Who are these coming to the sacrifice? O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede |
These are just the famous first few lines. Rest is linked. Auguries of Innocence |
Here is a link that might be useful: Auguries of Innocence
Auguries of Innocence I see myself somewhere in that poem. Bump |
A nice short one: The Lake Isle of Innisfree I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, I will arise and go now, for always night and day |
Helen by Hilda Doolittle All Greece hates All Greece reviles Greece sees, unmoved, |
Hope is the thing... by Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers And sweetest in the gale is heard; I've heard it in the chillest land, |
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land |
Bump from someone who feels like I've been missing in action for a while--PT, family stress, just life. Angie thanks so much for posting the Hope poem by Emily Dickinson. That is sure timely for me. Currently hope is an illusive thing for my older son (age 29). Even though he is an adult, when he hurts it still is hard on this mother's heart. |
- Posted by breezygirl (My Page) on Mon, Nov 19, 12 at 0:25
My only required poem recitation came in my middle school career in Enrichment class. We were grouped together and each given a section of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' to memorize. Then, we performed it at a retirement home. I was quite miffed to be assigned Section 3, not 2 with this famous stanza: Water, water, every where, Tea4all--good to see you back! PT? Are you injured? |
Here is a link that might be useful: Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Tea4all, I will pray for hope 4all :) Take care. Bump |
Yes, tea4all, hope you are well! Brussels in Winter Wandering through cold streets tangled like old string, Only the old, the hungry and the humbled Ridges of rich apartments loom to-night A look contains the history of man, |
You all are so kind. I injured my back and have been on anti-inflamatory meds & physical therapy to right the wrong. My core strength was not my priority after c-sections and during 20 plus years of raising kids. Therefore I got myself into a pickle where my SI Joint (sacro-iliac joint) got mis-aligned and set me up for the injury. I've never been a sports playing gal so coordination to get my lower abdominal muscles and transverse muscles to tighten, hold, etc while breathing normally has been frustrating! Normally? Really! However, I have just advanced to trying to do these exercises while sitting on a fitness ball. That is a sight! Ha. I will do anything to keep from having this injury re-occur. All you younger gals do NOT ignore your core strength. Ain't fun to remedy. ;) (And placing ice my right backside following exercises isn't my idea of a top-of-the-day experience.) But this too will pass, God willing. On a much more pleasant topic--Today was glorious here in the heart of our country--warm & sunny like a Spring day! Therefore, here's a poem that has to do with outdoors beauty. Trees I think that I shall never see |
Thanks enduring for the prayers. They are really appreciated! No one can ever have too many prayers said for them. Blessings to you all. |
An Acre Of Grass by William Butler Yeats Picture and book remain, My temptation is quiet. Grant me an old man's frenzy, A mind Michael Angelo knew |
Madonna Mia by Oscar Wilde A lily-girl, not made for this world's pain, |
Let's lighten it up! The Owl and the Pussy Cat The Owl and the Pussy Cat went to sea Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl! "Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling |
Oh Angie that takes me back. Mom used to read from a poem book that had The Owl and the Pussy Cat in it. She also used to read lots of Robert Louis Stevenson poems from a Child's Garden of Verses. Here's one of them I loved. My Shadow I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow-- He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play, One morning, very early, before the sun was up, |
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries by A.E. Housman |
A thanksgiving poem Starfish This is what life does. It lets you walk up to Life lets you take the dog for a walk down to the And then life suggests that you remember the Later, you wake up beside your old love, the one So life lets you have a sandwich, and pie for your |
Still in Thanksgiving mode: Some Hae Meat Some hae meat and canna eat, - |
Bumping even though don't have a poem. Stay safe in after Thanksgiving sales. |
Not a poem, just something to ponder. Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.ďż˝ ~Aesop |
tea4all, lovely quote. Bump. |
This poem is about this painting (Icarus is drowning in the lower-right-hand corner): Musee des Beaux Arts About suffering they were never wrong, In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away |
At Lord's Francis Thompson It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk, |
Invictus William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, In the fell clutch of circumstance Beyond this place of wrath and tears It matters not how strait the gate, |
- Posted by breezygirl (My Page) on Mon, Nov 26, 12 at 19:34
I could never remember who wrote the last two lines of that poem, Angie, but I've said it to myself many times over the years. I am the master of my fate: Thanks for the whole poem! |
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Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working. Expecting the worst, you look, and instead here's the joyful face you've been wanting to see. Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you'd be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings. |
Great poem Angie. You have a lot of good thought provoking poems. Do you have a poetry file? Today I feel like a bit of silly nonsense. This may be the laugh someone needs. Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face by Jack Prelutsky Be glad your nose is on your face, Imagine if your precious nose Your nose would be a source of dread Within your ear, your nose would be Your nose, instead, through thick and thin, |
tea4all: Oh, goodness, no I don't have a file. Honestly, I have just been googling whatever strikes my fancy. (I have hit most of my favorite authors already, so now I am finding new ones to learn about!) My tears are like the quiet drift I think, that if I touched the earth, |
Bump for the night. Oh my, Angie, earlier today I almost posted Dylan Thomas's poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night but then decided to go in the opposite direction with the nonsensical Nose on you face poem. ;-) |
Tea: Oh, that is a funny coincidence. I have noticed what has been pointed out earlier: A large fraction of poems are real downers! Death is way too common a theme! I have been trying to post uplifting ones, but don't always succeed. So many that are not grim are sappy. At least love provides a reliable theme that does not (necessarily) involve grief. Here is one: Between Us Now Between us now and here - So thoroughly and long Face unto face, then, say, |
Love it Angie! Thanks. Birds of Passage Through every fibre of my brain, I hear the wind among the trees And over me unrolls on high Towards yonder cloud-land in the West, Blow, winds! and waft through all the rooms O Life and Love! O happy throng |
Tea: Longfellow was such an inspired choice. He did not occur to me! Nice one. Now for something different. Here is a little ditty I wrote some time ago in a thread honoring Boxerpup's manifold contributions to the GW Kitchen Forum. I wrote it in terza rima, as I find that doggerel looks least like doggerel if done in terza rima! ;-) Ode to Boxerpups Here is an ode to boxerpups when our inspiration needs a fix. The desired image comes quick as thunder she has posted a relevant cache So let us all raise our cups |
Glad you liked Longfellow's poem Angie. It is the way I feel when I'm at the farm where my dad was born. I love your Ode to Boxerpups!! It is a perfect delight! Yes, yes to boxerpups! You are quite talented Angie. Nice job! |
I hope you all will forgive the children's rhyme to bump: One, two, buckle my shoe My two year old just counted her five fingers for the first time for me tonight so counting is on my mind. |
Crl, 10 cheers for the little sweety! This is a little song that an English friend from years ago taught me: "When the Boat Comes In" I just looked this song up on Wikipedia and they have a very long version and the lyrics are all different. Thanks Angie, Tea4all, and crl for these great thoughtful poems. Angie, I think I've said it before you are one talented woman. Sort of a Renaissance Woman. I loved the haiku too, that was inspired by you, on the other boxerpups thread. For us who don't know much (like me) here is the definition of "terza rima" from Wikipedia: |
Enduring--I must admit I was clueless on the "terza rima" but didn't look it up. Thanks so much! Crl--Wonderful accomplishment for your little one! Thanks for sharing that with us. You have a great start with rhymes with your child. Some of the most treasured memories I have are remembering Mom reading books and poems to me and me doing the same with my boys (now young adults). Treasure that time together. Now here is a poem for Crl and little one. Rain by Robert Louis Stevenson The rain is falling all around, |
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Aww, pshaww, you all! Back atcha, enduring! Happy December everyone! First Fig |
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In the Valley of Cauteretz Alfred Lord Tennyson All along the valley, stream that flashest white, |
Time to bump again. It's a windy day here today. Makes me think of the Rossetti poem. Who Has Seen the Wind? Who has seen the wind? Who has seen the wind? |
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I love this one. Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature's first green is gold, |
We can stay with Frost, for a seasonally pertinent poem: MY NOVEMBER GUEST My Sorrow, when she's here with me, Her pleasure will not let me stay. The desolate, deserted trees, Not yesterday I learned to know |
- Posted by beekeeperswife (My Page) on Tue, Dec 4, 12 at 19:38
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Not quite a poem, but by a poet! "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." ďż˝ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Love that quote from Emerson!! Bump to get this up to pg 1. |
DUST OF SNOW by Robert Frost The way a crow
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Sorry about the strange way the poem lines ended above. Don't know why it did that. Will try again. DUST OF SNOW The way a crow |
I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I heard the bells on Christmas Day I thought how, as the day had come, And in despair I bowed my head: Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: Till, ringing singing, on its way, |
Perfect poem Angie!! |
Thanks, tea. You likely have heard this poem in another form many times before. (I must admit that I did not know it was written by Longfellow until recently.) Check out the video: |
Here is a link that might be useful: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Oh yes Angie I knew this poem as Belafonte's song. It is one of my favorite Christmas songs. Thanks for the link! It is so peaceful. (I too did not know Longfellow wrote it.) |
Bump with a quote. "Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day." |
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I really dislike Ogden Nash, and, for a purported Christmas ditty, this is pretty dark, but I have to share it anyway. It's darkness is in service of higher ideals, at least. A Carol for Children God rest you merry, Innocents, Oh, dimly, dimly glows the star The ancient altars smoke afresh, Gaspar, Balthazar, Melchior! Two ultimate laws alone we know, Only the children clasp His hand; God rest you merry, Innocents, |
To Celia Ben Jonson Drink to me, only, with thine eyes, I sent thee, late, a rosy wreath, |
And a counterpoint to the above poem.... Unfortunate Coincidence By the time you swear you're his, |
I haven't done this bump in five years! Buuuuump |
Welcome back Kailuamom! Glad for your bump! A Home Song I read within a poet's book Yes, that is true; and something more But every house where Love abides, |
Thanks Tea, I needed this, my DD left to return to Chicago after her week's visit. She is so sweet to have around, we miss her already. |
This post was edited by enduring on Sun, Dec 9, 12 at 9:11
Love After Love Derek Walcott The time will come, when with elation, |
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It is really getting cold here now. So as I sit shivering I thought a little silliness would help me cope. Weather Whether the weather be fine, |
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Don't worry, gang of bumpers. This thread won't be here much longer. I won't continue the poetry on the next "New to Kitchens" thread! He Ate and Drank the Precious Words He ate and drank the precious words, He danced along the dingy days, |
- Posted by breezygirl (My Page) on Tue, Dec 11, 12 at 19:31
Chicken-soup-making bump! |
Bump with a quote from Eric Sevareid (an American newscaster, born 1912, died 1992): "Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves." |
"Blow, Bugle, Blow" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The splendour falls on castle walls O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, O love, they die in yon rich sky, |
Praise (I) George Herbert (1593-1633) To write a verse or two is all the praise I go to Church; help me to wings, and I Man is all weakness; there is no such thing An herb distill'd, and drunk, may dwell next door, O raise me then! poor bees, that work all day, |
You probably know Robert Herrick's most famous poem, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time. This is the one that starts out: "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" Here is another of his short works: Upon Julia's Clothes Whenas inn silks my Julia goes, Next, when I cast mine eyes and see |
I trust you know what "pied" means, as in "The Pied Piper." (It means "of two or more colors in blotches.") Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things-- All things counter, original, spare, strange; |
Ohhh I like that poem Angie! Is there a limit of 150 entries for a thread? If so, we are almost there. I'm not a poet for sure but maybe someone can come up with an original asking Tamara to add Buehl's other links above to the STICKY GW currently has at the top. My feeble efforts are childish. A sticky, a sticky. |
This has become a great collection of poems. I can tell it was a labor of love for Angie and Tea. Thank you. Bump |
Thanks, enduring! I looked it over last night (reading some of the poems to some friends) and realized we had assembled a nice collection, as you say! In My Craft or Sullen Art In my craft or sullen art Not for the proud man apart |
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Here's an elegantly easy way to use leftovers from your turkey dinner. Our savory pie is filling, with all the creaminess you expect plus it's packed with the earthy, sweet flavor of healthy root veggies. Serves 4.
- 4 sheets phyllo dough
- Non-stick pan spray
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 2 cups sliced mushrooms
- 1 small sweet potato, peeled and diced (1 cup)
- 2 parsnips, peeled and diced (2 cups)
- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme, chopped
- 1 (15-oz) can low-sodium chicken broth
- 1 cup frozen pearl onions, thawed
- 1 cup frozen mixed vegetables, thawed
- ½ pound cooked turkey breast meat, diced
- ½ cup nonfat half-and-half
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- Preheat oven to 400°F. Line a 2-quart casserole dish with one layer of phyllo dough. Lightly spray with pan spray and repeat with another sheet. Let dough flap over pan edges and set aside.
- Prepare filling: Over medium-high heat, heat oil in large skillet. Add garlic and mushrooms and sauté for 2 minutes. Add remaining fresh vegetables and cook 8 minutes or until almost tender. Add chicken broth, fresh thyme, turkey, and frozen vegetables, and stir to mix.
- While mixture is bubbling, mix the half-and-half with cornstarch and add to vegetable mixture, mix until thickened. Season with salt and pepper.
- Pour mixture into prepared casserole dish. Cover with single layer of phyllo dough, spray with pan spray and repeat with second sheet. Fold in excess dough over the top of the pie. Bake for 20-25 minutes until crust is golden brown. Let pie sit 10 minutes before serving.
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Sections of the sewer line plugged up, and wet weather prevents contractors from reaching or fixing the lines. Park visitors can use portable restrooms and vault latrines, but restrooms, shower facilities and the dump station at the campground are closed.
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TMZ EXCLUSIVE: TMZ tries to get Matt Kemp to bury Ryan Braun and fails
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TMZ.com, your #1 source for amateur photographers bothering famous people on the street and then making money off of it despite it's questionable at best legality, caught up with Matt Kemp at The Grove in LA this week and said something stupid about him getting the MVP award for Christmas. Matt Kemp handled it like a pro and dismissed the claims, adding that Ryan Braun was a "good dude" and his homie.
After failing at that the reporter interviewer random dude with a camera decides to bring up Barry Bonds (timely!) to see if Matt Kemp will say anything about him and again, he fails.
It should be noted that TMZ.com (Your #1 source for celebrity gossip! Check your local listings!) posts this video with the headline "Matt Kemp: Don't Call Ryan Braun A Cheater... Yet" despite, you know, Matt Kemp never saying that or anything close to that.
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However, the Christmas layoff and some unexpected circumstances took away some of the anticipated excitement, leaving both coaches feeling unsatisfied.
Despite having four starters out of the lineup, the Mustangs were able to build a five-point lead after the night's first eight matches, but the strength of the Bear order finished the meet strong for a 39-24 victory.
"We knew that even though they (Walker Valley) didn't have all their guys, the ones they'd put out there would fight," commented Bradley head coach Ben Smith. "We were on weight and ready to go before the match, but there were times during the match we went flat. We didn't always wrestle with the intensity we should have."
"We showed up with 14. We wrestled 14. Some did as we expected but others didn't," expressed a disappointed Mustang mentor Al Morris. "We were hoping to give them a better match. They were ready and we weren't."
Both squads won't have much time to recover as fifth-ranked Bradley (15-1) heads to Soddy-Daisy this evening for pair of dual meets against No. 15 Science Hill and Murfreesboro Oakland, while eighth-ranked Walker Valley (16-3) will be at Cleveland High to tangle with No. 11 Cordova and Cookeville. Both the Bears and Mustangs will be at the Soddy Showdown all day Saturday.
Coach Morris knew 220-pounder Zach Miller and heavyweight Sam Dworak weren't going to be at the meet, due to out-of-town opportunities, but when the state's top-ranked 138-pounder didn't make weight for the third time this season, the Mustangs started the night out on the wrong foot.
With the dual meet starting with the 138-pound match, what was a 37-second Walker Valley pin when the teams met in the Tullahoma Duals championship in December, turned into a 67-second "stick" by the Bears' Caven Rogers for a 12-point turnaround from the previous meeting.
The Mustangs evened the score when Lawrence Cotton was able to pin his Bear opponent in 3:07 of the 145-pound match.
In the most exciting battle of the evening, Bradley's Jacob Staton and Ryan Hagar thrilled the more than 1,000 fans with an overtime duel at 152.
After claiming a 5-4 decision when the pair met a month ago, Hagar was up 4-2 going into the final period, but had to pull off an escape with just two ticks on the regulation clock to force an extra period. Staton was able to end the battle quickly, needing just 13 seconds to earn a takedown for a 7-5 victory.
Bradley was able to stretch its advantage to seven points when fifth-ranked Robbie Clark took a 14-4 major decision at 160, but the Mustangs came charging back into the lead when Chase Gregory claimed a 3-0 decision at 170 before Chaz Fulford earned an 84-second pin at 182.
Senior Alex Forgey was able to reclaim the lead for the Bears with a hard fought 5-4 decision over Ric Kennett at 195, but the Mustangs answered with 2:45 pin by third-ranked Billy Raulston, who stepped up a weight class to fill in for Miller. An all-state football player for Polk County, Miller was in Texas participating in the U.S. Army All-American football combines.
Down 21-16, Bradley strung together five straight victories to seal the team win. Heavyweight Jerry "J.J." Johnson started things off with a 3-0 decision over Walker Hood, filling in for Dworak, who is in London with the Walker Valley Marching Band.
The Bears then got a 26-11 technical fall from second-ranked sophomore Toribio Navarro at 106 and an 81-second pin from Dyer Rose, No. 3 in the latest state poll, at 113.
Bradley's "Double-Ds" did the damage to finish the victory with Dakota Bromley taking a 6-1 decision at 120 and fourth-ranked Dakota Ream putting his opponent's shoulders to the mat in 1:45 of the 126-pound match.
Walker Valley closed out the meet with a 6-1 decision win from fifth-ranked Tyrus Hamrick at 132.
"We lost two more matches than we did at Tullahoma. It's disappointing. We're a better team than we showed tonight," lamented coach Morris, a former Bear wrestler who has yet to claim a coaching victory over his alma mater. "Give Bradley credit. They earned the bragging rites."
"It wasn't pretty, but a win is a win. We'll take it," proclaimed coach Smith. "I'm friends with all of their coaches and have a great deal of respect for them. They have built their program into one of the best in the state. I'm proud of our guys to get two wins over them in such a short time."
(Match started at 138 Pounds)
106 — Toribio Navarro (BC) tech. fall Jordan Caylor, 26-11, 5:40; 113 — Dyer Rose (BC) pinned Jacob Stiles, 1:29; 120 — Dakota Bromley (BC) dec. Braxton Brewer, 6-1; 126 — Dakota Ream (BC) pinned Joseph Munoz, 1:45; 132 — Tyrus Hamrick (WV) dec. Taylor Kazy, 6-1; 138 — Caven Rogers (BC) pinned Devin Pruett, 1:07; 145 — Lawrence Cotton (WV) pinned Colter McConnell, 3:08; 152 — Jacob Staton (BC) dec. Ryan Hagar, 7-5 OT; 160 — Robbie Clark (BC) major dec. John Hayes, 14-4; 170 — Chase Gregory (WV) dec. Eric Goins, 3-0; 182 — Chaz Fulford (WV) pinned Nathan Adams, 1:23; 195 — Alex Forgey (BC) dec. Ric Kennett 5-4; 220 — Billy Raulston (WV) pinned Zach McFarland, 2:45; 285 — Jerry Johnson (BC) dec. Walker Hood, 4-0.


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Exemplary Essay on "Life's Best Lessons Are Outside the Classroom"
Peter Hasle, a student in Professor Sarah Zale's English course at Shoreline Community College in north Seattle, Washington, read and responded to the YES! Magazine article, "Life's Best Lessons are Outside the Classroom" by Daniel Fireside.
Writing prompt: In his article, "Life's Best Lessons are Outside the Classroom," Daniel Fireside reports on a group of schools that are emphasizing place-based learning, where students not only learn about their local environments, but also actively seek solutions to the problems they encounter. What has your service-learning project taught you about social injustice and how you can be part of the solution? Do you think this kind of experience is essential to a good education? If so, why?
Read author Daniel Fireside's response to Peter Hasle's essay here.
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by Peter Hasle
I'm an international student from Denmark, a country that teaches in a way different than many other countries. Denmark is a country that focuses on class discussions, group work, and making problem statements. In addition, Danish high school students have more than twice as many oral than writing exams. We, in Denmark, might think that we are educating students who are better at critical thinking and problem solving in the real world. After doing my service-learning project, I realized that this was definitely something both the American and Danish education systems could learn from. Through my service-learning project about international students and their work limitations, I learned that social injustice is closer than we might think. Going out of the classroom and gaining experiences by compassionately listening to people, I became educated in a whole new way.
Learning outside the classroom was a new form of education for me. I must admit, I wasn't too excited to take an English 101 class at Shoreline Community College. I thought it would be like Danish English classes, where students analyze and interpret texts and books, which I find rather dull most of the time. This English class would be nothing like my previous educational experiences. For once, we were told to close our books and get out of the classroom. In this class, we were to do a final project about a certain group of people who suffered from social injustice. Everything we would do in the class would have a connection to the final project about social injustice. We, the students, would go out in our community and listen to these people to learn and understand their situation better.
By going out in the community and getting hands-on experience, you gain much deeper insight and knowledge about problems such as social injustice. For my final project I chose international students and the social injustice they suffer from work limitations. International students are only allowed to work within the school campus, which makes the numbers of jobs available for the international students limited. For my project, I went out in my community and listened to an international student from Hong Kong.
By using compassionate listening skills, I found out how she had experienced social injustice. In class we learned and practiced compassionate listening techniques, and some of us also attended a compassionate listening course outside of class. Compassionate listening is when you listen to a person in a non-judgmental and non-adversarial way. You want to analyze the person's feelings and values to understand his or her situation better. I used compassionate listening to the best of my abilities when listening to the international student. She told me how frustrating and irritating it is to have so few job options and how hard it can be to get one. From listening to her I got knowledge about this social injustice in a way no textbook or Internet source could provide. I learned that social injustice is much closer than I imagined. Daniel Fireside wrote in his article "Life's Best Lessons are Outside the Classroom" about how "Students who engage directly with their communities and surroundings often see ways to take part in solving problems." By going out and connecting with people in our community, we can learn from them and gain experiences. We can take those experiences to come up with solutions to problems in our society. Finding a solution is hard, but before any solution can be found the issue needs to be commonly known. I can be a part of that process. With my project I can create awareness regarding this injustice, and in that way take the first step towards a solution.
Service learning took my education to another level. By going out of the classroom and doing this service-learning project, it was a perfect opportunity for me to get more involved in campus life and get to know people I wouldn't have talked to otherwise. Most of the international students are Asian. This service-learning project not only taught me about social injustice, but it also gave me a cultural experience. I became good friends with many of the Asian students, and they taught me much about their cultures. They took me to different Asian restaurants and showed me around Seattle's International District. By doing service learning, students learn much more than they otherwise would learn in a classroom. Fireside says in his article: "The more students are exposed to hands-on learning the more they express an enthusiasm for engaging with their communities and taking care of the environment. And they gain critical thinking skills." Service learning can teach students valuable skills, while textbooks and classroom teaching cannot. Through my service learning, I became educated more than any other English class has managed before.
My experience taught me that service learning is a fundamental part of a good education. After doing this service-learning final project on social injustice, I have not only learned about social injustice and how close it is to my life, but also about it has also educated me in fields beyond social injustice. I got more engaged in my community and school, I learned about different cultures from my Asian friends, and finally, I learned to see problems from multiple angles and to think in a more critical way. In a normal English class I would never have had the opportunity to learn all this. For this reason service learning is an essential part of a good education, and I hope that in my future education, I will be able to gain similar experiences.
Peter Hasle attended Shoreline Community College as an international student from Denmark in the fall quarter of 2010. Peter is currently taking a gap year and intends to pursue a master's degree in electrical engineering at the Technical University of Denmark. At Shoreline CC, he was usually seen hanging out with his Asian friends or playing basketball at the gym.
Daniel Fireside's Response:
I selected Peter's essay from the many fine compositions of his classmates because it best exemplified the kind of process that I highlighted in my article. A growing number of educators are coming around to the realization that by getting students to engage with the place they inhabit, they can become better and more engaged learners.
If the teacher had organized the English class in the conventional way, as Peter had expected, the students would have spent all their time going over textbooks and readings, writing papers on pre-selected topics, and struggling to improve basic English skills. Instead, the assignment forced Peter to answer a broad question ("How do people experience injustice?"), by engaging with the community around him. It led not only to a more interesting experience (one that I bet he will carry with him longer than many other lessons he has learned in school), but also one that was different for each of his classmates. Peter chose to look at the impact of work restrictions on foreign students. Others spent time exploring the same question facing groups from gays and lesbians to people with physical and mental disabilities.
Peter and the others experienced this in a college setting. In my article, I saw first-hand how talented and creative elementary school teachers applied these techniques to an inner-city school in Boston. Instead of relying on "drill-and-kill" rote learning, the teachers at the Young Achievers school taught language arts, social studies, public speaking, and project learning to seven-year olds by getting them to engage in a direct way with their own surroundings. They ended up not only improving their core skills, but also gaining insight into their own history and community.
Some critics of this approach suggest that time spent outside the classroom comes at the expense of learning the basics of a subject. As Peter's example (not to mention a growing number of studies) shows, this is a false choice. Peter describes how the assignment led him to make friends across cultural divides and helped him gain an understanding of issues affecting his larger community. Even though he discovered that there are no easy solutions to the problem he wrote about, he writes that he "became educated more than [in] any other English class … before."
In my article, I wrote that "A number of studies by scholars and education groups suggest that the more students are exposed to hands-on learning, the more they express an enthusiasm for engaging with their communities and taking care of the environment." It's nice to see that Peter's experience, and those of his classmates, confirms this.


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The disciples taught to pray. (1-4) Christ encourages being earnest in prayer. (5-13) Christ casts out a devil, The blasphemy of the Pharisees. (14-26) True happiness. (27,28) Christ reproves the Jews. (29-36) He reproves the Pharisees. (37-54)
Verses 1-4 "Lord, teach us to pray," is a good prayer, and a very needful one, for Jesus Christ only can teach us, by his word and Spirit, how to pray. Lord, teach me what it is to pray; Lord, stir up and quicken me to the duty; Lord, direct me what to pray for; teach me what I should say. Christ taught them a prayer, much the same that he had given before in his sermon upon the mount. There are some differences in the words of the Lord's prayer in Matthew and in Luke, but they are of no moment. Let us in our requests, both for others and for ourselves, come to our heavenly Father, confiding in his power and goodness.
Verses 5-13 Christ encourages fervency and constancy in prayer. We must come for what we need, as a man does to his neighbour or friend, who is kind to him. We must come for bread; for that which is needful. If God does not answer our prayers speedily, yet he will in due time, if we continue to pray. Observe what to pray for; we must ask for the Holy Spirit, not only as necessary in order to our praying well, but as all spiritual blessings are included in that one. For by the influences of the Holy Spirit we are brought to know God and ourselves, to repent, believe in, and love Christ, and so are made comfortable in this world, and meet for happiness in the next. All these blessings our heavenly Father is more ready to bestow on every one that asks for them, than an indulgent parent is to give food to a hungry child. And this is the advantage of the prayer of faith, that it quiets and establishes the heart in God.
Verses 14-26 Christ's thus casting out the devils, was really the destroying of their power. The heart of every unconverted sinner is the devil's palace, where he dwells, and where he rules. There is a kind of peace in the heart of an unconverted soul, while the devil, as a strong man armed, keeps it. The sinner is secure, has no doubt concerning the goodness of his state, nor any dread of the judgment to come. But observe the wonderful change made in conversion. The conversion of a soul to God, is Christ's victory over the devil and his power in that soul, restoring the soul to its liberty, and recovering his own interest in it and power over it. All the endowments of mind of body are now employed for Christ. Here is the condition of a hypocrite. The house is swept from common sins, by a forced confession, as Pharaoh's; by a feigned contrition, as Ahab's; or by a partial reformation, as Herod's. The house is swept, but it is not washed; the heart is not made holy. Sweeping takes off only the loose dirt, while the sin that besets the sinner, the beloved sin, is untouched. The house is garnished with common gifts and graces. It is not furnished with any true grace; it is all paint and varnish, not real nor lasting. It was never given up to Christ, nor dwelt in by the Spirit. Let us take heed of resting in that which a man may have, and yet come short of heaven. The wicked spirits enter in without any difficulty; they are welcomed, and they dwell there; there they work, there they rule. From such an awful state let all earnestly pray to be delivered.
Verses 27-28 While the scribes and Pharisees despised and blasphemed the discourses of our Lord Jesus, this good woman admired them, and the wisdom and power with which he spake. Christ led the woman to a higher consideration. Though it is a great privilege to hear the word of God, yet those only are truly blessed, that is, blessed of the Lord, that hear it, keep it in memory, and keep to it as their way and rule.
Verses 29-36 Christ promised that there should be one sign more given, even the sign of Jonah the prophet; which in Matthew is explained, as meaning the resurrection of Christ; and he warned them to improve this sign. But though Christ himself were the constant preacher in any congregation, and worked miracles daily among them, yet unless his grace humbled their hearts, they would not profit by his word. Let us not desire more evidence and fuller teaching than the Lord is pleased to afford us. We should pray without ceasing that our hearts and understandings may be opened, that we may profit by the light we enjoy. And especially take heed that the light which is in us be not darkness; for if our leading principles be wrong, our judgment and practice must become more so.
Verses 37-54 We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, we must not neglect the smallest matter God has appointed. When any wait to catch something out of our mouths, that they may insnare us, O Lord, give us thy prudence and thy patience, and disappoint their evil purposes. Furnish us with such meekness and patience that we may glory in reproaches, for Christ's sake, and that thy Holy Spirit may rest upon us.
Luke 11:1-13 . THE DISCIPLES TAUGHT TO PRAY.
1. one, &c.--struck with either the matter or the manner of our Lord's prayers.
as John, &c.--From this reference to John, it is possible that disciple had not heard the Sermon on the Mount. Nothing of John's inner teaching (to his own disciples) has been preserved to us, but we may be sure he never taught his disciples to say, "Our Father."
3. day by day, &c.--an extension of the petition in Matthew for "this day's" supply, to every successive day's necessities. The closing doxology, wanting here, is wanting also in all the best and most ancient copies of Matthew's Gospel. Perhaps our Lord purposely left that part open: and as the grand Jewish doxologies were ever resounding, and passed immediately and naturally, in all their hallowed familiarity into the Christian Church, probably this prayer was never used in the Christian assemblies but in its present form, as we find it in Matthew, while in Luke it has been allowed to stand as originally uttered.
5-8. at midnight . . . for a friend is come--The heat in warm countries makes evening preferable to-day for travelling; but "midnight" is everywhere a most unseasonable hour of call, and for that very reason it is here selected.
7. Trouble me not--the trouble making him insensible both to the urgency of the case and the claims of friendship.
I cannot--without exertion which he would not make.
8. importunity--The word is a strong one--"shamelessness"; persisting in the face of all that seemed reasonable, and refusing to take a denial.
as many, &c.--His reluctance once overcome, all the claims of friendship and necessity are felt to the full. The sense is obvious: If the churlish and self-indulgent--deaf both to friendship and necessity--can after a positive refusal, be won over, by sheer persistency, to do all that is needed, how much more may the same determined perseverance in prayer be expected to prevail with Him whose very nature is "rich unto all that call upon Him" ( Romans 10:12 ).
13. the Holy Spirit--in Matthew ( Matthew 7:11 ), "good gifts"; the former, the Gift of gifts descending on the Church through Christ, and comprehending the latter.
Luke 11:14-36 . BLIND AND DUMB DEMONIAC HEALED--CHARGE OF BEING IN LEAGUE WITH HELL, AND REPLY--DEMAND OF A SIGN, AND REPLY.
14. dumb--blind also ( Matthew 12:22 ).
20. the finger of God--"the Spirit of God" ( Matthew 12:28 ); the former figuratively denoting the power of God, the latter the living Personal Agent in every exercise of it.
21, 22. strong man--meaning Satan.
armed--pointing to all the subtle and varied methods by which he wields his dark power over men.
his palace--man whether viewed more largely or in individual souls--how significant of what men are to Satan!
in peace--undisturbed, secure in his possession.
22. a stronger than he--Christ: Glorious title, in relation to Satan!
come upon him and overcome him--sublimely expressing the Redeemer's approach, as the Seed of the woman, to bruise the Serpent's head.
taketh from him all his armour--"his panoply," "his complete armor." Vain would be the victory, were not the means of regaining his lost power wrested from him. It is this that completes the triumph and ensures the final overthrow of his kingdom. The parable that immediately follows ( Luke 11:24-26 ) is just the reverse of this. dislodged by Christ, and so finds, in all future assaults, the house preoccupied; in the other, he merely goes out and comes in again, finding the house "EMPTY" ( Matthew 12:44 ) of any rival, and all ready to welcome him back. This explains the important saying that comes in between the two parables ( Luke 11:23 ). Neutrality in religion there is none. The absence of positive attachment to Christ involves hostility to Him.
23. gathereth . . . scattereth--referring probably to gleaners. The meaning seems to be, Whatever in religion is disconnected from Christ comes to nothing.
27, 28. as he spake these things, a . . . woman of the company--of the multitude, the crowd. A charming little incident and profoundly instructive. With true womanly feeling, she envies the mother of such a wonderful Teacher. Well, and higher and better than she had said as much before her ( Luke 1:28 Luke 1:42 ); and our Lord is far from condemning it. He only holds up--as "blessed rather"--the hearers and keepers of God's word; in other words, the humblest real saint of God. How utterly alien is this sentiment from the teaching of the Church of Rome, which would excommunicate any one of its members who dared to talk in the spirit of this glorious saying!
29-32. peculiarly vivid, expressing what pure, beautiful, broad perceptions the clarity of the inward eye imparts.
Luke 11:37-54 . DENUNCIATION OF THE PHARISEES.
38. marvelled, &c.--(See Mark 7:2-4 ).
39-41. cup and platter--remarkable example of our Lord's way of drawing the most striking illustrations of great truths from the most familiar objects and incidents of life.
40. that which is without, &c.--that is, He to whom belongs the outer life, and right to demand its subjection to Himself--is the inner man less His?
41. give alms . . . and . . . all . . . clean--a principle of immense value. As the greed of these hypocrites was one of the most prominent features of their character ( Luke 16:14 , Matthew 23:14 ), our Lord bids them exemplify the opposite character, and then their outside, ruled by this, would be beautiful in the eye of God, and their meals would be eaten with clean hands, though never so fouled with the business of this worky world. (See Ecclesiastes 9:7 ).
42. mint . . . rue, &c.--rounding on Leviticus 27:30 , which they interpreted rigidly. Our Lord purposely names the most trifling products of the earth, as examples of what they punctiliously exacted the tenth of.
judgment and the love of God--in Matthew 23:25 , "judgment, mercy, and faith." The reference is to Micah 6:6-8 , whose third element of all acceptable religion, "walking humbly with God," comprehends both "love" and "faith." The same tendency to merge greater duties in less besets us still, but it is the characteristic of hypocrites.
these ought ye, &c.--There is no need for one set of duties to jostle out another; but of the greater, our Lord says, "Ye ought to have done" them; of the lesser, only "ye ought not to leave them undone."
44. appear not, &c.--As one might unconsciously walk over a grave concealed from view, and thus contract ceremonial defilement, so the plausible exterior of the Pharisees kept people from perceiving the pollution they contracted from coming in contact with such corrupt characters. (See Psalms 5:9 , Romans 3:13 ; a different illustration from Matthew 23:27 ).
46. burdens grievous, &c.--referring not so much to the irksomeness of the legal rites (though they were irksome, Acts 15:10 ), as to the heartless rigor with which they were enforced, and by men of shameless inconsistency.
47, 48. ye build, &c.--Out of pretended respect and honor, they repaired and beautified the sepulchres of the prophets, and with whining hypocrisy said, "If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets," while all the time they "were witnesses to themselves that they were the children of them that killed the prophets" ( Matthew 23:29 Matthew 23:30 ); convicting themselves daily of as exact a resemblance in spirit and character to the very classes over whose deeds they pretended to mourn, as child to parent.
49-51. said the wisdom, &c.--a remarkable variation of the words in Matthew 23:34 , "Behold I SEND." As there seems plainly an allusion to ancient warnings of what God would do with so incorrigible a people, so here Christ, stepping majestically into the place of God, so to speak, says, "Now I am going to carry all that out." Could this be other than the Lord of Israel in the flesh?
50. all . . . required of this generation--As it was only in the last generation of them that "the iniquity of the Amorites was full" ( Genesis 15:16 ), and then the abominations of ages were at once completely and awfully avenged, so the iniquity of Israel was allowed to accumulate from age to age till in that generation it came to the full, and the whole collected vengeance of Heaven broke at once over its devoted head. In the first French Revolution the same awful principle was exemplified, and Christendom has not done with it yet.
prophets--in the New Testament sense ( Matthew 23:34 ; see 1 Corinthians 12:28 ).
51. blood of Zacharias--Probably the allusion is not to any recent murder, but to 2 Chronicles 24:20-22 , as the last recorded and most suitable case for illustration. And as Zacharias' last words were, "The Lord require it," so they are warned that "of that generation it should be required."
52. key of knowledge--not the key to open knowledge, but knowledge, the only key to open heaven. In Matthew 23:13 , they are accused of shutting heaven; here of taking away the key, which was worse. A right knowledge of God's Word is eternal life ( John 17:3 ); but this they took away from the people, substituting for it their wretched traditions.
53, 54. Exceedingly vivid and affecting. They were stung to the quick--and can we wonder?--yet had not materials for the charge they were preparing against Him.
provoke him, &c.--"to harass Him with questions."