A Beginning...

This blog has been around for quite a while now, and I haven't written anything; perhaps it's time for that to change!

I will post thoughts on books read, movies watched, and frequent quotes - as an avid reader of good books those aren't too hard to find - and other miscellanies.  But I'm still figuring out how to make best use of this space on the internet.  =)

So, to begin with:

"The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;

    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;

    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil

Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;

    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;

And though the last lights off the black West went

    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings."

God’s Grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins

xoxo
Hannah