no mourners, no funerals

I almost forgot about this blog for a little while. Hello to the faithful few who still read it 🙂 I'm on spring break for a brief couple more days, and then it's back to the crazy busy wonderful thing that is college daily life. I'm honestly quite stressed and worried about the remainder of…

Unsong book covers!

Hello friends! A few months ago I discovered a delightfully nerdy and complex book called Unsong, which you can read for free online here. It imagines that Apollo 8 crashed into the celestial spheres and the world reverted to kabbalistic magic, which is as weird and wonderful as it sounds, and I really enjoyed reading…

Augustine, Confessions

a selection from 1.1.1 and 1.2.2. translation my own. Great are you, Lord, and very worthy of praise. Great is your power and of your wisdom there is no limit. And man longs to praise you, for he is a part of your creation--man, bearing around his own mortality, bearing the witness of his sin…

sunshine blogger tag

Well met, fair friends, and welcome to the woods. I have not been tagged to do this tag, but it's the best way to not do Greek homework right now, and Grim offered it to anyone who wanted it. So here we go. Do you listen to podcasts, and if so what’s your favorite? I…

on the seventh day of Christmas

It's been a tradition to share my goals and plans for the new year on this blog for a couple years, so here I am to do that again. I'm currently working out exactly what relationship I want to have with sharing my life on my blog -- when I turned sixteen and was allowed…

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…

recently: reviews

As You Like It: Hilarious but I'm not sure what the point is; everyone did end up married to the right person, though, so I guess we've got something positive going on. I still wouldn't recommend pretending to be a guy and getting your crush to flirt with you while you're pretending. (Or writing poetry…

an aesthetic autumnal atmosphere

I've been doing some wandering around my college town lately. It looks, and smells, like fall. The air is crisp, the sky is bright, and as I walk along the neighborhood streets listening to The Hobbit or singing hymns with friends, I take courage. The world is so full of a number of things /…

adventures in small town college living

school. reading copious paragraphs of Cicero every day; every day it becomes a little easier failing to properly memorize Greek verbs ("oh, doesn't that mean kill?" "no, actually just go") arguing about Hamlet on the quad with friends leading a discussion -- enjoying myself despite my lack of preparedness "virtus does NOT mean strength" (as…