Sufjan Stevens - Away in a Manger

Boat - Cats on the FM

Lone Official - Black Patch Rider

M. Ward - Absolute Beginners

I was your rebellious son,
do you remember? Sometimes
I wonder if you do remember,
so complete has your forgiveness been.

So complete has your forgiveness been
I wonder sometimes if it did not
precede my wrong, and I erred,
safe found, within your love,

prepared ahead of me, the way home,
or my bed at night, so that almost
I should forgive you, who perhaps
foresaw the worst that I might do,

and forgave before I could act,
causing me to smile now, looking back,
to see how paltry was my worst,
compared to your forgiveness of it

already given. And this, then,
is the vision of that Heaven of which
we have heard, where those who love
each other have forgiven each other,

where, for that, the leaves are green,
the light a music in the air,
and all is unentangled,
and all is undismayed.

“Axiom 1st, No man has the right of making laws for his
own government. For such a right would include the double
absurdity of making him independent of God, and
responsible only to himself!
Axiom 2nd. A republican government is one in which power
is thought to be delegated by the people to their rulers,
in their act of voting.
Axiom 3rd. But a man cannot delegate a power he himself
does not possess.
Hence, INFERENCE 1st. As man has no inherent legislative
power, he cannot transfer it to another.
Hence, INFERENCE 2nd. Voting is therefore a deception,
and a sham, making a deceiver of him, who votes, and a
dupe of him who fancies himself the recipient of
delegated power.”

We’ll get this thing caught up eventually. This month’s pictures accompanied by The Avett Brothers with “Fall”.