By Walt Garlington Jeremy Matthews entered his Northern Virginia home,A typical deracinated Southern creature,Pleased with another day’s work at the DHS,Undermining threats to the Establishment in D.C.On came the lights, on came the television.The imagery of the news glided smoothly across the screen,Following the script he and his colleagues had sketched.Most of it was easy …
By Walt Garlington Lee’s tormentorsLack none of the demonic rageOf past persecutors –Dismembering him and his steedPiece by piece, as they alsoCut Christ’s martyrs apartOne joint at a time;Heating the furnaceTo infernal degreeLike Nebuchadnezzar’sDisgraceful menFor the Three Holy Youths.Defying their hatred,His face glowed in the fireWith sad nobility –Foolish souls! You have confounded yourselves,Making manifest …
I sometimes cross-publish my children’s essays when I think they’re worthy of my readers’ time. This is such a work: an excellent book review from my eldest son from a while back when he was age 15. Enjoy! By Houston Lee DillinghamAugust 2022 Although some historical inaccuracies and controversies have arisen from the book over …
June is a beautiful time of year. It marks the beginning of summer with its sunny adventures, pleasure of eating watermelon and catching lightnin’ bugs, and long, lazy days with friends and family. It’s also the month in which my oldest son was born (16 years ago this year, in fact), and includes some important …
By Walt Garlington Was there really chaos in the world?It seemed distant to Constantius Lee,Riding amidst the mountains’ beautiful scenes. But that turmoil, unhappily, was all too real,The combined Ukraine-Taiwan War had gone amiss,Predictably, thanks to DC’s lunatic analysts. The union had collapsed; survival was a struggle.Violence and disorder held heavy swayIn many States. Seeing …
“What has given the South her identity are those beliefs and qualities which she has absorbed from the Scriptures and from her own history of defeat and violation: a distrust of the abstract, a sense of human dependence on the grace of God, and a knowledge that evil is not simply a problem to be …