Don Paterson, 40 Sonnets

Corrie Williamson, Sweet Husk (2014)

The emo band? Had to cross reference the OP

Weirdly enough, I was just thinking about this poem today.

Singing Eleanor Farjeon's "People Look East"

⚓any encouragement for a poor sinner?

*Gallows humor is a legitimate way to cope.

I was making a feeble joke about The Caroline Divines but this church is quite something. I love the gravestones basically up against the building. I don't think I've ever been to South Carolina.

I like "Newspaperman". "-30-" was so cool though!

Yeah, Episcopacy, or at least oversight (presbytery, district president) is important to me, but I'd rather not have an abstract principle have me driving an hour and not really knowing the people around me.

Oh that's fantastic!

Cheers. I'm moving to a very rural area so not many options. I'm hoping I can find a Mercersburgish church, but I'm not sure exactly how I feel about congregationalism as such. I suppose at a certain point it doesn't matter!

Tosh, as Cooper would say. Or something.

lol I'm not sure I'd want to know.

I know and I was doing the well-known bit of replying to a turn-of-phrase is if it were literal. But as I told you before, I'm not that witty.