New Look and New Thoughts

While I am on christmas break, I was cruising around and decided to change the look of my blog. Unfortunately, all my links were erased. Blasted technology.

I stole a link off of monkey's blog, "propheteering". Interesting stuff.

Today I was reading T.S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi" and found this:

All this was a long time ago, I remember,
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down
This: were we led all that way for Birth or Death?
There was a Birth, certainly,
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.

This thought of birth being filled with agony for them...I wonder if it was the waking up or realization of the new born king that built this agony, and then to return to your old life and see what was happening around them - it seems that the Magi were even more aware of this transformation. Of course this is poetry and everybody will have a different opinion except for the author.

Enjoy the Advent Season.

ron