Thoughts for a solemn but joyous season

Perhaps I should have waited until after Easter to post my reflections on Dante and baseball, as their placement yesterday sort of interrupts the thread I began with the Ashley Smith story and continue with this post. But in any event, apropos of Easter and all that it represents, Barney Madsen shares some thoughts worth passing along, which you can read here and here. Meanwhile, in Classical Education, another of my favorite blogs, my friend Joi Weaver posted these reflections on Good Friday, plus this poem, titled "Mea Culpa."