My junior and senior high English teachers required the memorization of numerous poems… here are a few of the ones I remember:

Oh Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman

If by Rudyard Kipling

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

Plus bits and pieces of longer poems…

“This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
TS Eliot - The Hollow Men

And some Shakespeare:

Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day

Macbeth Act 4 Scene 1
Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo. Down!
Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls. And thy hair,
Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first.
A third is like the former. Filthy hags!
Why do you show me this? A fourth! Start, eyes!
What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?
Another yet! A seventh! I’ll see no more:
And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass
Which shows me many more; and some I see
That two-fold balls and treble scepters carry:
Horrible sight! Now, I see, ’tis true;
For the blood-bolter’d Banquo smiles upon me,
And points at them for his.

and of course, ” Et tu, Brute?— Then fall, Caesar!”

And a song:
Oklahoma by Oscar Hammerstein II

There are probably a few more I’ve forgotten to list. Jami can you help me out here?

Besides the memorization there is one poem I specifically remember studying in college:
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed by Emily Dickinson
I had to give an oral presentation on this poem in my World Lit class. Since that day in 1996, I can’t greet one spring day without thinking, “Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew.”

What poetry did you memorize in school?

I think I broke my blog… this is a test. I’m trying to get rid of all the crazy characters that showed up in old posts when I upgraded a while back…

This: ’ shows up randomly where there should be apostrophes.

Some sites suggest editing the wp-config file by removing “utf8?, so it becomes: define(’DB_CHARSET’, ”);

This got rid of the ’ … but replaced each post that contained it with only one character [an a]. That’s no good.
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I think the problem is that my database thinks it’s speaking latin1_swedish_ci and my Blog thinks it’s speaking utf-8… and all of you think I’m speaking a bunch of gibberish.

Remember Saturday Stuff? It’s back! [Gracious, yet another GW 'regular feature' which hasn't shown up for a year. Where have I been?!]

I appreciated this post written by fellow Army Chaplain Candidate, Chris Harmon. [aka Rachel's husband]
Unbounded Words: Attention!!! There is only One Way to Heaven
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Jami should like this one. She used to complain about it a lot.
Stuff Christians Like: The Unaccountability-partner
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Ok, this is awesome. You can read complete children’s books to your kids for free. Fun fun, Sarah loves this site.
lookybook.com
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Here’s a story about my good friends:
Sniper turned chaplain - Jarrod Johnson fulfills a new military passion
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Assemblies of God Chaplain Cecil R. Richardson has been appointed Chief of Air Force Chaplains
Awesome… he’s an Evangel graduate too.
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Laterthis.com
Simple enough. Add a bookmarklet to your toolbar. Click it when you’re on a site you want to look at later.

Jeremiah praying in the AGTS prayer chapel.

Originally Posted in August of 06.

I just pre-ordered the long awaited ESV Study Bible from Amazon. And I’m anxiously awaiting it’s mid-October arrival.

For More Info:
Visit esvstudybible.org for more info. They’ve put together a great web site. You can also preview the introductions to Revelation and Luke. [pdf downloads]

Personal Trivia:
My preaching professor at AGTS wrote the study notes for 2 Peter and Jude.

Useless info:
I paid for it by dumping all of my change in a Coinstar machine at the nearest grocery store. They offer free coin counting if you get your money back as a giftcard.

Has it really been over a year since my last “Morning Cup” post? How has this happened?

Rachel gave me this “Hope” coffee mug last August. This morning it held freshly roasted Indonesian Flores - Bajawa Highlands “mildly floral and nutty with aromatic wood hints.”

The photo shows my hope mug in candle light. I’ve taken to lighting a candle when I pray in the morning… not so much for religious, liturgical, or mystical reasons… but because my new closet smells like a litter box… and now you know.

My (World’s Tiniest) flash drive case broke after repeated abuse and an adventure in the washing machine. Scotch tape and superglue kept it alive for a year but it needed replaced. I’m too cheap to buy a new one… so I made a new case following these instructions.

That’s a photo of my finished product on the left. Worried that it would get accidentally thrown away if I left it like the instructions suggested, I turned it into a geeky key chain…

And this friends, is the first post in over one year that qualifies for the Tech Tangents category.