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The Commonplace

A collective of Classical creators countering the convoluted
American Dream through the study of literature & the arts.

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We focus on two things:

providing a platform for like-minded creators to share their work,
& keeping a digital, community Commonplace Book.

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For Art's Sake

Have you ever stopped to consider what a strange thing “art” is? Take a painting for example; an artist has an idea, a spark of...

God of Horizons

You are blue meeting blue in unbroken symmetry. You are in the highways and high places. How come? How can it be? It’s you in the dirt...

Age

Will I ever grow up? It's so far away. Right now, the wind blows Full in my face. It doesn't chill my bones, or make me shake. I run...

Jubilee

We take hiatuses from things when our emotional landscape becomes parched. Social media, dessert, and television all get purged when we...

In God We Trust?

In God We Trust? We see it every day. On license plates, our money and it engraved above all who enter the state of the union. In God We...

Your Truth?

John 16:13 “But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak...

Glassblowing

So we are not steel. We burn easily. Our outer layers peel, melt into our unexpected meant-to-bes – it is, indeed, always unexpected to...

Clementine Poem

I miss the clementine days: bright and light and little. No pain in peeling, no struggle in segmenting each separate slice of life. Those...

Justice

Who judges justice? How can one man do For fellow man due diligence? And who Has confidence in his sinful decisions? What mortal lives...

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