Foolish Sage | December 26, 2009
A meditation on my recent times, in the words of songwriter Stephen Stills.
Ten years singing right out loud
I never looked, was anybody listening?
Then I fell out of a cloud
I hit the ground and noticed something missing
But now I have someone
She has seen the changes
And it gets harder as you get older
And farther away as [...]
Foolish Sage | December 7, 2009
In no particular order, here is my list of the best books I read during this past year
The Sacredness of Questioning Everything – David Dark
Definitely the one book with the most profound effect on me this year. Dark says not only is it not damaging to a life of faith to question everything, it is [...]
Foolish Sage | December 6, 2009
from spiralling ecstatically this
proud nowhere of earth’s most prodigious night
blossoms a newborn babe: around him, eyes
-gifted with every keener appetite
than mere unmiracle can quite appease-
humbly in their imagined bodies kneel
(over time space doom dream while floats the whole
perhapsless mystery of paradise)
mind without soul may blast some universe
to might have been, and stop ten thousand stars
but [...]
Foolish Sage | December 3, 2009
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book just about took my breath away. Haunting, disturbing, unsettling…yet so beautifully written I often found myself stopping after a particular passage or even a sentence and marveling that such a thing had come from human pen. It’s a good thing the story [...]
Foolish Sage | December 2, 2009
The Brothers Karamazov is my bathroom reading right now (whatever I have on the Stanza e-reader app on my iPhone). Some of you know that I’m having a colonoscopy this afternoon, so have been on two days of fasting and laxative bombs. Just throwing that in to let you know I’ve had a lot of [...]
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Mark Traphagen (aka Foolish Sage) is a lover of dark beers and darker music, of things that are but are not as they seem, of contexts taken out of context to become new contexts, of resurrections and that which is already (but not yet). Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and currently freelances as an Internet marketer.
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