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The Book, The Burial, by R. Penman Smith is available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and directly from Tate Publishing. The Burial is a Spiritual Thriller with a dark twist and a redemptive outcome. The story springs out personal experience; ‘write what you know about’. Those who are comfortable with fantasy and are not afraid of the reality of the spiritual warfare inherent in Christian life will love this book.

Imagination is the faculty through which we discover the world around us, both the world we see, and that other unseen world that hovers on the fringe of sight. Love, joy and laughter, poetry and prose, are the gifts through which we approach that complex world. Through the gift of imagination we have stepped into an ever flowing river where the realm of Faerie touches Middle Earth.

Monday, March 16, 2015

A Little Classroom Savagery

This latest is from our Down East Correspondent Shadrach Spencer














Last summah the Missus and me went up to visit the grandkids in Prince Edward Island. The place is so small that you have to squint at the map in order to see it. 

It seems that one day at the local school two of the boys got a hold of a couple of large straws and were tearing’ up little pieces of paper, chewing them into little balls, and were shootin’ the spit balls at each other. I tell yuh; Gaylord Perry got nothin’ on them two boys!

Well, the teachah, Wally Percell, got a little het up and seized the two boys by the ears and hauled them right outta their seats, and gave them a tongue lashin’ that woulda brought joy to the ears of John Mugsy McGraw. Right in the middle of the tongue lashin’ the teachah Wally Percell looked over at the world map on the wall and saw our grandson Chester a-starin’ at the map with his nose pressed right up somewhere in the vicinity of Argentina.

Wally sez, “Why can’t you be like Chester; look at him a-studyin’ the map.”

Now our grandson Chester, was mighty proud that his teachah had noticed.

The teacher asked him, “What part of the world are you a-studyin’ Chester?”

Chester replied, “I was lookin’ to see if I could find Savage Harbour!”


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