Tim Torkildson's Clown Alley
The Poet Laureate of the New York Times Newsroom
Sunday, February 21, 2016
My Heathen Sundays as a Child.
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While taking the Sacrament this morning I was brought up short by the realization that until I was 16 years of age I never gave the perso...
We are born with God before us
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2 Nephi. Chapter 10:3 -- ". . . and there is none other nation on earth that would crucify their God." ...
Saturday, February 20, 2016
My Children's Hands
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2 Nephi 9:3 -- Behold, my beloved brethren, I speak unto you these things that ye may rejoice, and lift up your heads forever, because...
Friday, February 19, 2016
To Kindle Sparks
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2 Nephi 7: 11 -- " Behold all ye that kindle fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks, walk in the light of your fire and ...
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Making Swords of Laban
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2 Nephi. Chapter 5:14 -- " And I, Nephi, did take the sword of Laban, and after the manner of it did make many swords , lest by...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Waxing Old
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2 Nephi. Chapter 4:12 -- " . . . he waxed old . . . " I'm changing my estate again, or rather it's changed me -- fro...
Monday, February 15, 2016
How to Shave. In the tradition of Robert Benchley.
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Sunday, February 14, 2016
My words are high above my deeds
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My words are high above my deeds, like butterflies above the weeds; they sail on thermals of resolve, while here below my acts dissolv...
A Fifth Part of Their Ziff
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Mosiah 11:3 -- And he laid a tax of one fifth part of all they possessed, a fifth part of their gold and of their silver, and a fifth ...
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Truth has no glamour
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Alma 1:5 -- And it came to pass that he did teach these things so much that many did believe on his words, even so many that they began ...
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