#Mormon Mouse Poetry

[mormonmouse]

Mormon Mouse Poetry - For the Love of Strangers

Here’s a little ditty I wrote and posted on r/exmormon reddit a couple months ago in the form of the meme-ish graphic above, and with the title “Does Russell Really Love Me?” I’d been having reoccurring thoughts about how both members and leaders in The Church can commonly be found telling people they don’t know that they love them. Is it even possible to love someone if you don’t know them? No.…

[classicalliberalleague]

@NAC you had a list of books on your old page of recommended readings...but I can't find it now. Could you repost it?

I assume you mean this one ( I have this list on my web page with links included for the public domain stuff I could find…I try to keep it updated as I think of new things or find new ones.)

Young adult/childrenThe Little Prince by Saint-ExuperyWhere the sidewalk ends by SilversteinElla Minnow Pea by DunnSophie’s World by GaarderThe Great Good Thing by TownleyThe Jungle Book by Kipling Bridge to Terabithia by DiamondThe Westing Game by RaskingLillies of the Field by BarrettFlowers for Algernon by KeyesThe Wrinkle in Time Series(Wrinkle In Time, Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet)  by Madeleine L’EngleThe Dark is Rising Series by Susan CooperThe Tripod Trilogy by John ChristopherThe Hobbit by TolkienCoraline by Neil GaimanEyes of the Dragon by Stephen KingThe Original Shanara Trilogy (Sword, Elfstones, Wishsong) and Landover (Magic Kingdom for Sale, SOLD!, The Black Unicorn, Wizard at Large, The Tangle Box) by Terry Brooks by Elizabeth GeorgeThe Witch of Blackbird PondAdventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain 

Literature Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, Freddy & Frederika by Mark HelprinShakespeare (Especially Othello, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Tempest, Henry IV parts 1 & 2, Henry V, sonnets) Iliad   Odyssey   by Homer (I like the Fagles translation)Sophocles–Oedipus Trilogy ,  , Philoctetes , Women of Trachis Orestia by Aeschylus  Medea by Euripides Victor HugoLes Miserables The Hunchback of Notre Dam by Hugo A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens To Kill A Mockingbird by LeeWuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Complete works of Faulkner ( esp.The Sound and the Fury, Light in August) by FaulknerHoward’s End by Forster Diary of a Young Girl by FrankThe Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne Catch 22 by HellerGone with the Wind by MitchellFrankenstein by Shelley The Portrait of Dorian Gray , Importance of Being Earnest , An Ideal Husband by WildeThe Time Machine by Wells A Raisin in the Sun by HansberryNight by WieselThe Glass Menagerie by WilliamsThe Devil’s Disciple by ShawA Man for All Seasons by BoltCyrano de Bergerac by Ronstad (unless you speak French only the Hooker translation)Dracula by Stoker Inherit the Wind by Lawrence and LeeMagnificent Obsession by DouglasSilas Marner by George Eliot Decameron –Boccaccio A Modest Proposal—SwiftSelf-Reliance, The American Scholar, Experience—EmersonUp from Slavery—Booker T. Washington

PhilosophyA History of Knowledge by Van DorenThe Cave and the Light by HermanPlato (Euthyphro ,  Apology , Gorgias , Crito, Phaedo , Symposium , Republic )Aristotle (Metaphysics , Nicomachean Ethics , Eudemian Ethics , Politics , Rhetoric ,  Poetics )The History of Philosophy by CoplestonDiscourses on Livy by Machiavelli Ethical and Political Writings of St. Thomas AquinasAristotle for Everybody, 10 Philosophical Mistakes, The Great Ideas, How to Read A Book by AdlerCicero (On the Gods , On Duties , 1st and 2nd Philippics Superheroes and Philosophy edited by MorrisBuffy The Vampire Slayer and Philosophy edited by South

HistoryHistory of the Ancient World, Medieval World, Renaissance World by Susan Wise BauerThe Forgotten Man, Coolidge by ShlaesHistory of the Peloponnesian Wars by Thucydides John Adams by McCulloughFrom Dawn to Decadence by BarzunPlutarch’s Lives Cicero, Augustus by EverittLetters of John and Abigail Adams Washington by Ron ChernowThe Glorious Cause by Robert MiddlekauffLost Enlightenment by StarrReagan’s War by SchweizerPatriot’s History of the United States by Schweikart and AllenThe closing of the Muslim Mind by ReillyThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Economics/PoliticsWho Really Cares  and The Road to Freedom by Arthur BrooksThe World is Flat by Thomas FriedmanDave Barry Hits Below the Beltway by BarryDemocracy in America by de Tocqueville  The Law by Bastiat The Upside of Down by McArdkeSpirit of the Laws The Federalist Papers Adam Smith (Theory of Moral Development , Wealth of Nations )My Journey by BlairThe Conscience of a Conservative by GoldwaterLocke (Second Treatise of Government , A Letter Concerning Tolerance )Parliament of Whores, Eat the Rich, On Wealth, Peace Kills by O’RourkeIn Defense of Globalization by BhagwatiNovus Ordo Seclorum by McDonaldBasic Economics, Civil Rights by SowellThe Next 100 Years by FriedmanThe Mystery of Capital by de SotoThe Road to Serfdom by HayekCapitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose by FriedmanNew Threats To Freedom edited by BellowA Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful; Reflections on the Revolution in France  by BurkeThe General Theory by KeynesThe Origins of Political Order, Political Order and Decay by FukuyamaBourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Equality, Bourgeois Dignity by Deirdre McCloskeyCapital by Marx The Conservative Mind by Kirk

Other nonfictionPower of Myth by Joseph CampbellThe Universe in a Nutshell by HawkingFreakanomics by Levitt & DubnerThe Art of War by Sun TzuScratch beginnings by ShepardThe Tao of Physics by CapraShadowplay by AsquithHuman Excellence by MuarryThe Better Angles of Our Nature by Pinker48 Laws of Power by GreeneThe Story of Western Science by Bauer

Pleasure readingMan in the High Castle by DickBeat to Quarters, Ship of the Line, Flying Colours by ForesterThe Road to Gandolfo, Bourne Trilogy by LudlumBig Trouble by BarryEaters of the Dead, State of Fear by CrichtonRed Storm Rising by ClancyI, Claudius by GravesThe Walking Drum by L’AmourGates of Fire by PressfieldThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Ozcry It and The Green Mile by KingThe Agony and the Ecstasy by StonePillars of the Earth by FollettThe Historian by KostovaGrail Quest by CornwallThe Thirteenth Tale by StterfieldLamb, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Vampire Trilogy, The Stupidest Angel and Fool by Moore

Sci fi/Fantasy Mists of Avalon, The Forrest House by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (et. al)Dune Series by Frank Herbert (et. al)The Sword of Truth Series by Terry GoodkindWorks of Robert Heinlein (esp. Stranger in a Strange Land, Puppet Master, Starship Troopers, Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Double Star)Good Omens by Gaiman and PratchettWatership Down by AdamsEnder’s Game by CardAmerican Gods by GaimanAnthem, Atlas Shrugged by RandHitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Adams1984 by George Orwell2001–Clarke

Spiritual The Robe by DouglasLost Horizon by HiltonGod Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita by YoganadaThe Second Coming of Christ by YoganandaThe Tao Te Ching (best to read at least two translations)The Alchemist, Veronica Decides to Die by CoelhoAutobiography of a Yogi by YoganandaEvidence of the Afterlife by LongA Course in MiraclesThe Messengers by IngramThe Celestine Prophecy by RedfieldLife before Life by TuckerJonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions by BachSiddartha by HesseKoranThe Book of CertitudeHoly BibleBook of Mormon

PoetryThe Prophet, The Broken Wings, Song of Man by GibranLeaves of Grass by Whitman  (esp. Preface, Song of Myself, I hear America Singing, Corinna’s Going A-Maying,When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer, O Me! O Life!, O Captain! My Captain!)Works of Tennyson (especially The Lady of Shalott, Ulysses, Charge of the Light Brigade, For I dipped into the Future, In Memoriam A.H.H., Crossing the Bar, Ulysses)Works of T.S. Eliot (especially The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Wasteland, Hollow Men, Preludes-, Four Quartets)Divine Comedy by Dante (I like the Mandelbaum translation) Metamorphoses by Ovid Hesperides and Nobel Numbers by Herrick  (esp. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, Argument of his book, Delight in Disorder, To His Conscience, Upon Julia’s ClothesFaust by Goethe Part I  Part II Works of Sappho, Hafiz, Rumi, Li Po, Tu Fu (best to read several translations)Tagore (esp. Gitanjali)Spencer– Amoretti (Sonnets 1,8, 10, 35, 37, 67,68, 70,75, 79)Sidney —Astrophil & Stella (Sonnets 1,6,9,15, 31,39,45,52,69,71,72,87,89,108)The Passionate Shepherd to His Love—MarloweThe Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd—RaleighShakespeare’s Sonnets (all them)Meditation 17, Holy Sonnet 10, The Bait—DonneTo a Mouse, To a Louse, Auld Lang Syne. A Red Red Rose–BurnsThe Lamb, The Tyger—BlakeRime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan—ColeridgeShe Walks in Beauty Like the Night, When We Two Parted, Darkness, We’ll Go No More A Roving, When A Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home—ByronA Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing—PopeThe Measure of a Man—UnknownInvictus–HenleyPrayer of St. Francis of Assisi—Unknown (but probably not St. Francis)Ozymandias, The Flight of Love, To—, —ShellyOde on a Grecian Urn, La Belle Dame Sans Merci—KeatsSea Fever–MasefieldMy Last Duchess, Andrea del Sarto, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister—BrowningSonnet 43—Barret BrowningRemember, Up-hill, Echo, Promises like Pie-Crust, Lord thou thyself art love,—C.G. RossettiSudden Light, The House of Life, Soul’s Beauty—D.G. RossettiThe New Colossus–LazarusSecond Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, When you are Old, Lake Island of Inishfree—YeatsDo Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night—ThomasWork—Angela MorganThe Highwayman–NoyesCasey at Bat—ThayerJabberwocy, Walrus and the Carpenter, The Hunting of the Snark–CarrollDream Deferred, I too sing America– HughesThe Road Not Taken, Birches, Mending Wall, Fire and Ice, Out, Out–Frost

Short StoriesWilde (The Carterville ghost , The model millionaire , The nightingale and the rose  )Poe (Masque of the Red Death . Tell tale heart , Cask of Amontillado , Fall of the house if of usher , The Purloined Letter ,The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade  , Pit and the Pendulum , Mertzengerstein , The Duc De L’omlette , The black cat , The Murders of the Rue Morgue , Van Kempelen and his discovery , Mesmeric revelation )Hawthorne (My Kinsman Major Molineux , Young Goodman Brown ,  Rappacini’s Daughter , Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment , The Snow Image , The Minister’s Black Veil , The Maypole of Merry Mount , The Celestial Railroad , Sister Years  , The New Adam and Eve , The Artist of the Beautiful )O. Henry ( Lickpenny Lover , The Gift of the Magi ,After Twenty Years , The Last Leaf , The Cop and the Anthem  , The Clarion Call , The Skylight Room , The Buyer from Cactus City , The Duplicity of the Hargraves , The Furnished Room , Witches loaves , The Third Ingredient  , Spring time a la Carte  , The Green Door , By Courier, The Romance of the Busy Broker, One Thousand Dollars, Tobin’s Palm)Lovecraft—(The Cats of Ultar , The Outsider , Beyond the wall of sleep , Hypnos , The call of Cuthulu  , Dunwich horror , Dagon)EM Forrester (The Other side of the Hedge , The Machine Stops )Edith Wharton –The fullness of life Collins–Mr. Lismore and the Widow Bradbury—Exiles, Sound of thunderHans Christian Anderson –( In a thousand years  , Little mermaid )Ambrose Bierce–Occurrence at owl creek bridgeConnell–The most dangerous game Thousand and One nights–Aladdin and his magic lamp The necklace by Maupassant Anthony Hope–The Philosophy in the Apple Orchard Doyle (The Red Headed League , Scandal in Bohemia)Gilman–The Yellow Wallpaper Harrison Bergeron by VonnegutThe story of an hour by Kate Chopin The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Rikki tiki tavi by KiplingThe ones who walk away from Omelas by Le Guin  Bartley the scrivener by MelvilleThe lady or the tiger by Frank Stockton Abbot–FlatlandJericho Road by Henry van dyke Henlein– (The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, All you zombies, By his bootstraps, Waldo, Beyond this horizon)Philip K. Dick (We can remember it for you wholesale, Paycheck, Second Variety, The Minority Report, The Golden Man, Variable Man)William Faulkner (A Rose for Emily, The Tall Men, Shingles for the Lord, Shall not Perish, Elly, Uncle Willy, That will be Fine, That Evening Sun, Red Leaves, A Justice, A Courtship, Lo!, Ad Astra, All the Dead Pilots, Wash, Mountain Victory,  Beyond)Mark Twain (The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County,  Diary of Adam and Eve)Washington Irving (Sleepy Hollow, ,  The Devil and Tom Walker  )Gelett Burgess–The number Thirteen , The MacDougal street affair  Lord Dunsany– The bureau d’exchange de Maux , The Exiles club , The Sword of Walleran  The mortal immortal  byMary Shelly The Adventure of the Snowing Globe By F. AnsteyThe Sleeper and Spindle by GaimanMark Helprin (Katherine comes to yellow sky, Ellis island,  Tamar)

PodcastsThe History of Rome, Revolutions

[humility]

Top 100 Book List

Top 100 books I have read in my life and the age at which I read them.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien) {13}

The Long Walk (Slavomir Rawicz) {28}

Ecclesiastes  (King Solomon) {11}

Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis) {31}

The Old Man and The Sea (Ernest Hemingway) {29}

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis) {10}

Babylon By Bus (Ray LeMoine) {27}

Bike Snob (bikesnobNYC) {29}

The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Beverly Cleary)  {9}

Book of First World War Poetry (Compiled By: George Walter) {32}

The Global Economy (Thomas Ramge) {35}

The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance (Elna Baker) {33}

The Graphic Canon (Russ Kick) {32}

Proverbs (King Solomon) {7}

All The Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr) {33}

Farewell to Shady Glade (Bill Peete) {12}

Advance Your Swagger (Fonzworth Bently) {30}

The Good Earth (Pearl Buck) {28}

The Last Battle (C.S. Lewis) {10}

It Couldn't Just Happen (Lawrence Richards) {13}

The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien) {12}

Atlas Obscura (Ella Morton) {34}

These Wonderful People (Noel Ames) {33}

How to be Black (Baratunde Thurston) {30}

Henry Higgins (Beverly Cleary) {8}

The Horse and His Boy (C.S. Lewis) {12}

Catch Me If You Can (Frank Abagnale) {34}

A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman) {36}

Shoe Dog (Phil Knight) {36}

Why Not Me? (Mindy Kaling) {35}

The Oregon Trail - A New American Journey (Rinker Buck) {34}

You Can't Win (Jack Black) {33}

The Mutt (Rodney Mullen) {31}

Superfreakonomics (Levitt & Dubner) {32}

Hell's Angel (Sony Barger) {32}

For Whom The Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway) {29}

Modern Romance (Aziz Ansari) {34}

Anarchy Evolution (Greg Graffin) {33}

Bronze Bow (Elizabeth Speare) {14}

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Mark Haddon) {33}

Expressions of Loneliness (Alex Free) {32}

Wump World (Bill Peet) {11}

Out of the Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis) {26}

Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut) {31}

The Hiding Place (Cornelia ten Boom) {32}

Empty Mansions (Bill Dedman, Paul Clark) {36}

Tin Tin and the Land of the Soviets (Georges Prosper Remi) {13}

The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien) {14}

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) {29}

Achtung Baby (Sara Zaske) {34}

The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith) {31}

The Indian in the Cupboard (Lynne Reid Banks) {14}

YWAM Backpack DTS (Jay / Ryan Caven) {31}

Red Tent (Anita Diamant) {32}

Freakonomics (Levitt & Dubner) {32}

Homer Price (Robert McCloskey) {10}

Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank) {31}

The Magician's Nephew (C.S. Lewis) {13}

On These Walls (John Cole) {31}

Les Miserables (Victor Hugo) {29}

Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) {26}

When You Are Engulfed in Flames (David Sedaris) {29}

The World is Flat (Thomas Freidman) {30}

The Wonderful Wizard of  OZ (Frank Baum) {14}

The Girl Who Loved the Swastika (Maria Hirschmann) {33}

Colleen Green's Celebrity Encounters (Colleen Green) {32}

Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) {32}

Mila 18 (Leon Uris) {32}

Jesus on Trial (David Limbaugh) {33}

The Price of Everything (Eduardo Porter) {33}

Crazy From the Heat (David Lee Roth) {30}

Flash Boys (Michael Lewis) {32}

Runaway Ralph (Beverly Cleary) {8}

The Model Millionaire (Oscar Wilde) {25}

In the Presence of my Enemies (Gracia Burnham) {23}

Just Kids (Patti Smith) {32}

The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) {7}

Exodus (Leon Uris) {33}

Transport -7-41-R (Terry Degens) {32}

The Hunt for Red October (Tom Clancy) {33}

Beatles Gear (Andy Babiuk) {34}

Leading With Honor (Lee Ellis) {33}

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (John Godey) {32}

Prince Caspian (C.S. Lewis) {12}

Common Sense (Thomas Paine) {25}

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) {27}

Under Fire (Oliver North) {30}

The History of the Caldwell Police Department (Robert Sobba) {31}

Killer Angels (Michael Shaara) {32}

Unbroken (Laura Hillenbrand) {33}

To Kill a Mokingbird (Harper Lee) {29}

Chinatown (Arthur Hart) {32}

The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) {28}

Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis) {12}

On the Road (Jack Kerouac) {30}

No Place on Earth (Louis Charbonneau) {29}

Rising 44 (Norman Davies) {33}

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Persig) {31}

Razor Eyes (Richard Hough) {30}

The Eagle Has Landed (Jack Higgins)  {29}

In the Plex (Steven Levy) {30}

The Road (Cormac McCarthy) {32}

Free (Chris Anderson) {31}

The Cross and the Switchblade ( David Wilkerson) {30}

The Wolf of Wall Street (Jordan Belfort) {33}

Alexander Hamilton (Ron Chernow) {20}

Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) {29}

Heidi (Johanna Spyri) {13}

Tombs of Anak (Frank Peretti) {14}

The Anarchist Cookbook (William Powell) {28}

History in Headlines (Idaho Statesman Staff) {33}

Million Dollar Portfolio (David Gardner - Motley Fool) {31}

The Door in the Dragon's Throat (Frank Peretti) {14}

Castor Oil and Laughter (George Randall) {30}

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) {31}

[mormonmouse]

Mormon Mouse Poetry - Bloody Price Stains

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In the Whole of All Parts - Saint Andrew of Snohomish

I could expound this little rhyme of mine and philosophize away to my heart’s content.  I could use it as inspiration for a sermon against the objectively false truth claims of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Or, I could simply let the words speak for themselves so I can move on with my work, and hopefully sometime in the near future I’ll finish some more poems— the one about…