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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, age 89, died Sunday at his home on the outskirts of Moscow. Solzhenitsyn, through his writings, made known to the world the horrors and tortures of Stalin’s regime against the Russian people. His little book “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,” at first banned from publication, was published by permission from Khrushchev [...]
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THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
I try to read this novella at least once a summer. I just finished it again this morning. Unbelievable. The story gets better each time I read it. This time I was amazed at Ernest Hemingway’s sharp simplicity of description and the riveting explorations of the thoughts and dispositions of Santiago, the old [...]
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Posted in Culture, Friends, Ministry, Poems on Jul 31st, 2008
When Old People Speak
by
John W Frye
When old people speak
listen for the ages in their words.
They say “I remember” and we skip
back over Viet Nam, over Churchill and World War II,
landing somewhere in the Great Depression,
feeling the hot dust and deprivation.
When old people speak
honor the silences that carry time,
fragile yet weighted with life;
the silences from which [...]
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It’s that time again! Time to offer some of my new terms for the ever emerging USAmerican theology.
sipphony–the sound of people sipping in unison their tiny cups of Communion juice
megalobiblia–the compulsive need to carry a really BIG Bible
proleperous–Jesus’ tendency to heal lepers
loafquacious–feeding thousands of people with five loaves of bread
golfertory–a foursome made up of pastors
dazzledermatitus–when [...]
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Sweet with Age
by
John W Frye
They live on property
near the valley
of the shadow of death.
This man I know who weeps
involuntarily when he remembers
90 years of life’s kindnesses.
He’s seen war and the damage of war.
He’s worked hard and believed well.
He wants to outlive his aged wife
so he can care for her to the end.
This woman I know
whose [...]
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Bikivnya Forest on the outskirts of Kiev
My friend, Maksim Rakovich, took me into the Bikivnya Memorial Forest where it is estimated over 100,000 innocent Ukrainians were killed in 1937 by Stalin’s order. They were killed simply because they had an education or a business or a relative in Poland. They were killed because [...]
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