the smashing & dashing character awards, 2022

Hello and welcome again to the woods! Ahem. Well, welcome to my blog, anyway. As you may have noticed, the name at the top of the page changed, but the url didn't, because some unknown fellow Chesterton fan possesses the url "gailyinthedark.wordpress.com" already. (If you don't know what gaily in the dark means, go read…

pythia’s leaves

The field was green as EdenThen it withered into brownIn the middle of my grievingThey came and cut it downAnd I was sure that it was all my faultThe day they mowed the garden to the ground What was good, good, goodIs gone, gone, goneAnd there's a little boy who's lost out in the woodsAlways…

carpe aeternitatem

I've been thinking a lot, lately, about life and death and what it means to be mortal. live the life that unfolds before you. love goodness more than you fear evil. ~ Jonathan Rogers It's not a new thing for me to be thinking about. I read The Bark of the Bog Owl when I…

the bookworm tag

Hello friends! I'm back (momentarily) with the happy update that both essays I referenced in my last post went well (presumably -- neither have been graded yet), I am officially a classics major now, and I have been tagged by Sarah to do this tag! Hurrah (: • What author has your favorite prose to…