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...honest man, tho’ e’er sae poor / Is king o’ men for a’ that.” Two centuries later, and about 100 miles away in St Andrews, poet and musician Don Paterson is striving for the same down-to-earth honesty in his fifth volume of poetry, “Rain.” In this new collection, Paterson amasses popular images of sentimentality and reimagines them amid the hectic cacophony of contemporary life...
...standout track on “All Days Are Nights,” signifies what potential there is in Wainwright’s new style. Employing an uplifting chord progression in a refreshing major key, Wainwright warbles, “The dream has come and gone / The earth lumbers on / The dream is back in space / Back where it came from.” Striking a fantastic, wistful, and yet powerful tone, Wainwright here describes a kind of loss that avoids the lure of saccharine self-pity. His imagery, of an earth “lumbering on?...
...premature birth presents complications. For southern Sudan, they could be particularly severe. Sudan is already one of the least stable countries on earth. This is where Osama bin Laden lived for five years in the 1990s; where the government has waged, in Darfur, what the Bush Administration called genocide; where the President, Omar al-Bashir, is the first head of state to be indicted by the International Criminal Court; and where 2 million people died in two civil wars between the south and the northern government in 1955-72 and between 1983 and 2005, conflicts that left the entire country...
Owner Rachel A. Wentworth and her close friend and business partner, Meredith W. Donaldson—both of whom used to work at Church Street’s Mint Julep—are looking to run a business that is kind to both the earth and to the customer...
...that we are all sons and daughters of God,” Parker explains. “Our specific message for the Church of Latter-day Saints—the Mormon church—in our day, [is that] God has restored His true, existing Church onto the earth and in that Church contained the ordinances, all the teaching necessary for salvation...