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folk music

Fan Folktion: High Tragedy–feat. one of the saddest songs I know and some reflections on original sin therein

Good morrow, my merry friends. I hope all are well! ^don’t ask me why the super antiquated greeting. I have no rhyme or reason and that’s just the way it is. Okay so I’ve been promising you guys a fan folktion for a few weeks now. Here we have it. Without further ado, then, let […]

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folk music

A Bit of a Ramble on Folk Burials + other folk/Catholic myth thingummies (because Death = Hallowe’en…? Kinda?)

Hello friends! Yes, I’m aware I inexplicably did not post last week. DON’T JUDGE ME. I was…busy. If you’re noticing a pattern as far as the weeks I tend to accidentally miss always being folk weeks…it’s ’cause it takes absolutely forever to write a folk song post. I have most of the songs I use […]

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Remember, O Thou Man

Remember, O Thou Man Week 4: Thoughts on the Fairview Hill

I wrote this during fall of 2020. I think that was probably one of the most spiritually rich times of my life. Most of the stored-up things I’ve been presenting to you this Lent were written or mentally conceived during that time. I sit here in silence, and the cars go rushing by.  This hill […]