by Ray Rhodes | Aug 15, 2020 | Dancing Puritan
Glancing at a few old photographs from our thirty-three years together, I am struck by how beautiful you were then and how much more beautiful you are now. You are still and forever, “O Most Beautiful Among Women.” Beauty—a word often contemplated but...
by Ray Rhodes | Jun 19, 2020 | Dancing Puritan
In 1934, Winston Churchill, in the midst of his “Wilderness Years,” was six years from becoming Prime Minister, Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats were winning awards in poetry, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge died. However, beyond politics and poetry, the attention...
by Ray Rhodes | Jun 10, 2020 | Dancing Puritan
June 10, 1854, was a day of fanfare in London with the re-opening of the Crystal Palace. The Palace, crafted from iron and glass, was the genius of the famed designer Sir Joseph Paxton and an architectural marvel. It had originally been built at London’s Hyde Park as...
by Ray Rhodes | Feb 14, 2020 | Dancing Puritan
Fact and fiction are intertwined in the modern recounting of the story of St. Valentine and his surmised connection with romance. However, he is remembered each year on February 14th, a day considered to be a day of love. Valentine’s Day is celebrated with cards,...
by Ray Rhodes | Feb 14, 2020 | Dancing Puritan
Charles Spurgeon was miles from home preaching in East Yorkshire, however, his heart was with Susie. He wrote her a love-poem. MARRIED LOVE–TO MY WIFEOver the space that parts us my wife,I’ll cast me a bridge of song,Our hearts shall meet, O joy of my...
