'Mid the Pines
https://poems.culturing.net/2026/10/07/mid-the-pines/
We believe that some ideas are better than others, and we teach them.
We chose it because it felt like home,
a tradition of enquiry and life within which
answers can be found. It still speaks
and will go on speaking. "What is man?"
these stone buildings seem to ask, in a world
that says "Man is whatever he wishes." One place
disagrees. The result is community, hope, belonging,
and clarity, the root and the branch of good order,
a place to grow and believe, to become something
one otherwise could not be. It's a chance to be free
in the deeper sense, free from the passions, distractions
of a disordered soul, and this gift is a pearl
of great price.
