David Beresford
Delivering bricks
I used to work at a brickyard while I was going through school and when I was first married. It was an amazing place,...
Bishop McGrattan
Bishop William McGrattan, formerly an auxiliary bishop from Toronto’s central district, was recently appointed by Pope Francis as Bishop of the Peterborough Diocese. On...
White Salmon
Our soap or our salmon can travel in tins. - Songs of Education: “Geography” by G. K. Chesterton
I like eating fish, but not all fish. I...
On seeing Christ
From the beginning Our Blessed Lord has been found only by two classes; those who know and those who do not know— but never...
Efficiency and computers
I neither like nor dislike computers. I suppose I think computers are rather ugly things, useful for doing boring or repetitious tasks quickly, but...
But ’twill take root and flourish
You may take the shamrock from your hat and cast it on the sod,
But ’twill take root and flourish still, tho’ under foot it’s...
Chocolate bars
They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes;
They look at our labour and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
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