Are you ready? It is the time of year when summer athletic practices begin in earnest, and along with some parents, faculty members, and alumni, I was a spectator for the Boys Cross Country time trial this morning. Poised at the starting line at 8:00 a.m., there looked to be about forty-five nervous, already sweaty […]
Thankful not to be the Prince of Denmark
A final one today from the archives… [What follows is a Vespers talk from Asheville School] December 5, 2004 Readings: Psalm 23 Hamlet 2.2.318-333 That Hamlet is a pretty smart guy, and in the audience we know it from the first moment he speaks to us. Indeed his first line of the play is directed […]
Tribute to Mrs. Alley
[A second piece from my archives. I made the remarks that follow as part of the Cum Laude Induction Ceremony at Hawken School on April 30, 2009.] My mother recently sent me an article from the Richmond Times Dispatch. This is not an unusual sort of post from my mother […]
Doers of the Word and Meditations of the Heart
As a way of getting this blog started, I plan to pull several pieces of writing from my personal archives as a way of introducing myself. The first piece is a chapel talk that I gave at Asheville School on September 10, 2006. The service preceding my talk included James I: verses 1-22 and Psalm […]