donald trump | the windmills of his mind

We’ll have an economy based on wind.
I never understood wind.

You know, I know windmills very much.
I've studied it better than anybody I know.
It's very expensive.
They're made in China and Germany mostly —
very few made here, almost none.

But they're manufactured tremendous —
if you're into this —
tremendous fumes.
Gases are spewing into the atmosphere.

You know we have a world, right?
So the world is tiny compared to the universe.
So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything.
You talk about the carbon footprint —
fumes are spewing into the air.
Right? Spewing.
Whether it's in China, Germany, it's going into the air.
It's our air, their air, everything —
right?"


White House transcript of President Trump's speech to the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, West Palm Beach, Saturday December 21, 2019

nicole gregory | there is a vault of literature

He said, “There is a vault of literature.”
I asked him “Have you been in it?”
He nodded his head and said,
“The beast of Shakespeare, the beast of Shakespeare.”

Conversation with a homeless man

luci shaw | christ in you, the hope of glory

Months later, with the seed of God

rounding her belly with promise,

I wonder, was Mary restless at night,

her back aching, and soft stirrings

waking her from slumber?

Elizabeth understood, better than

a man. When they got together,

and the cousins in their wombs leaped

towards each other, quivering

with recognition, what hopes and dreams

did the mothers share? Did they guess

the end of the story for their sons?

For us?

And young as mary, old as Elizabeth,

woman or man, don't we each long to

feel the seed of God shifting within us,

a guarantee of now and future glory?

Christmas 2019