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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I am convinced that if God meant man to laugh, he would have made more Democrats.
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