A weekly* email newsletter about literature, art, trail running or hiking or riding or camping or walking or just sitting in the Utah mountains or the desert of the Colorado Plateau, and a good deal of poetry. <br/><br/><a href="https://luckywords.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">luckywords.substack.com</a>
Lucky Words
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A weekly* email newsletter about literature, art, trail running or hiking or riding or camping or walking or just sitting in the Utah mountains or the desert of the Colorado Plateau, and a good deal of poetry. <br/><br/><a href="https://luckywords.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">luckywords.substack.com</a>
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March 6, 2026
"What lips my lips have kissed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
<p>Howdy!</p><p>Another audio-first production, this time a sonnet by the fabulous 20th century poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. This one was recorded on a hike up Provo Canyon (yes, again—hey, it’s just up the street and, frankly, it’s a pretty great canyon) shortly before we finally (!) got some snow. </p><p>What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning; but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply, And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight with a cry. Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.</p><p></p><p>As I mention in the audio, there’s much to love about this poem. Mostly for me, it’s wonderful because it’s a love poem to herself. All sonnets are love poems, or they contain the echo of a love poem. In this poem, Milay is longing for the woman she used to be. The men in this poem? They’re forgotten. They have no faces and no bodies. They are “unremembered lads.” What Milay does remember is how they made her feel, long ago.</p><p>This is a poem about aging. She remembers those times back when she was young and beautiful and carefree, when the boys lined up. Those were in the summer, and now, in the poem, it’s winter. What were once branches full of noisy birds, now the “birds have vanished one by one” and in the present of the poem, those “boughs [are] more silent than before.”</p><p>What we can get from this poem is a feeling. We can take Milay’s nostalgia and try it on for a while. What do we remember from our summer times, and what does it feel like now, looking back? When our memories of faces has faded, what’s left? Milay’s poem invites you to just hold on to that feeling of used-to-be, and in holding it, find some pleasure in that, too.</p><p>All is well,</p><p>Jeff</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Lucky Words at <a href="https://luckywords.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">luckywords.substack.com/subscribe</a>
December 11, 2025
Advent, week 2: Peace
<p>Yes, yes it’s very late (again!). I apologize.</p><p>ON PEACE</p><p>When Elisabeth finally (finally!) got pregnant, she had to deal with the discomforts of carrying a baby all the while her husband was struck mute. She said that her “reproach” was taken away, but it is hard to imagine that it was a very pleasant time.</p><p>Meanwhile, her young unmarried cousin, Mary, was also pregnant. More unpleasantness.</p><p>Mary was “highly favored” among women, but still forced to deal with a pregnancy and the inevitable gossip that surrounded that. Not to mention: travel and childbirth in less-than-ideal conditions. Not only was the birth in a stable, but Mary didn’t have her own mother, any sisters or cousins, any of her support structure except a new husband who probably had never even seen her naked. It sounds like an awkward, lonely way to deliver a child.</p><p>God sometimes has a funny way of blessing his favorites.</p><p>It isn’t with comfort, that’s obvious enough. It isn’t with a golden ticket to avoid social scandal. It isn’t with material goods, nor with respite from political strife, nor freedom from family troubles. He doesn’t immediately free His people from oppression, stop wars, or even step in to halt the slaughter of babies.</p><p>And yet the angels sang, “peace on earth.”</p><p>It seems clear enough that God’s peace looks nothing like what we would consider peace in a worldly sense.</p><p>But you know, if you pause to think about it, that you can feel peace anytime. And you know, if you pause to think about it, that peace can be completely divorced from external circumstances.</p><p>Here’s two quick ideas for finding peace this Christmastime. Warning: neither of these are exactly comfortable, fun, or necessarily easy.</p><p>* Practice forgiveness. Yes, of course forgive those who have clearly and obviously trespassed against you. But also, can we forgive the everyday things? Forgive the books for being unread. Forgive the dishes for being unwashed. Forgive the traffic for being too heavy, the stores for being too busy, the people who stop in the middle of an aisle with their cart blocking both directions, the New York Times for headlining only depressing news. Forgive Congress for being disappointing, forgive the noodles for being overcooked and mushy, forgive the car for being low on fuel, forgive the leftovers for spoiling in the fridge. This sounds silly, but consider how much annoyance and sadness that you’re carrying around for these things. Sure, some of them you might have prevented; you didn’t, and so you need to forgive yourself, too. Forgive them, and leave a space in your heart to experience the wonder, hope, joy that God rains down as we head into Christmas. Forgive this stuff, so you can fill yourself with the great and good that’s there for the taking.</p><p>* Wait. Try to find excuses to practice waiting, ten seconds at a time. When discomfort comes, wait an extra ten seconds before doing something about it. Just wait. When boredom comes, count to ten before switching to something new. When you drive somewhere by yourself, give yourself ten seconds to just sit in the car, doing nothing. Wait ten seconds before eating the food that’s set in front of you and everyone else is eating. Just practice waiting. As you practice waiting with these ten second gifts to yourself, start to note what happens in those tiny windows. What sorts of feelings bubble up? Maybe you’ll feel some anxiety at first, but that’ll pass. Maybe you’ll spend it counting down, but your desire to do that will fade, too. You’ll still eat, still get to the store, still get out of that uncomfortable or boring situation. And for ten seconds, you’re like Sisyphus as the stone rolls down the mountain: with a respite, a sense of relief, a feeling of peace before the world starts spinning again. If you’re paying attention, this is a space that God can fill, too. And whatever he fills it with, it comes wrapped in peace.</p><p>May your next week, as you prepare for Christmas, be filled with peace: ten seconds at a time, and one small act of forgiveness at a time.</p><p>Think to yourself: what brings you peace at Christmas time? And what do you need to forgive to start to feel peace in other parts of your life?</p><p>A couple of scriptures:</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/john/14?id=p27&lang=eng#p27">John 14:27</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/heb/12?id=p1&lang=eng#p1">Hebrews 12:1</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/38?id=p8&lang=eng#p8">Alma 38:8</a></p><p></p><p>I’m trying to do exactly what I said above and forgive myself for being so late with this post. It’s hard! But this is the way, you know. We’re all going to screw up; and we all need forgiveness from ourselves and from others. I hope that you can forgive me for being so lousy at this. And I do sincerely hope that this little essay thing is helpful to you as you prepare for Christmas.</p><p>I’m waiting for snow, but the days are still in the 50s most days. I grew up in San Diego, and thought that it was pretty special that I could ride my bike all the way up until Christmas as a kid. Well, I can still ride my bike here — and I live in the land of “the greatest snow on earth.” If there were any snow…</p><p>Also, no poem and no photos today. I’m choosing for done over perfect. I hope you can forgive that, too.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Lucky Words at <a href="https://luckywords.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">luckywords.substack.com/subscribe</a>
December 3, 2025
Advent, week 1: Hope
<p>So Advent started last Sunday. I had intended to get this out before then, but then things happened, and I didn’t get it out there. My apologies.</p><p><strong>About Advent</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent">Advent</a> is the season leading up to Christmas, starting the fourth Sunday before. Christmas, the twelve days of it, begins on Christmas Day. Right now, we are in the middle of Advent.</p><p>For many Christians, they celebrate every Sunday of Advent with a little devotional thing and lighting of candles. We do it in my family.</p><p>Just like last year, I have written little essays and will be sharing them here. I’m adding a recording of me reading them, in case you’re too lazy to read. </p><p>The plan is to get these out before Sunday, so you could, if you wanted, to use these readings as a seed for your own Advent celebrations. This week I’m late, but I’ll have out the next one, peace, out on Saturday.</p><p>WEEK ONE: HOPE</p><p>Hope sits at the center of any life who tries to follow Jesus Christ. It nestles alongside faith and charity. And like faith and charity, hope is something we must deliberately choose. When we see the messiness of the world around us, it’s easy to give in to despair. Sometimes, maybe, most of us do.</p><p>The birth of Jesus Christ gives us reason to hope when all the signs around us fail to. We acknowledge the reality of the awfulness of things, but then counter-logically, we choose to live with a feeling of hopefulness.</p><p>Real hope is firmly grounded in reality. It sees clearly. Hope is not a bury-your-head-in-the-sand virtue. Through hope, we can encounter reality head-on, with clear eyes. We can use all our intellectual gifts to understand the world as it actually is. And, with the gift of hope (and it is indeed a gift), we can see the troubles of the world and yet still hope for something better. Hope powers action.</p><p>Anxiety takes a place at the opposite of hope. Anxiety is intellectualized fear about the future. I worry about what might come. Maybe most of us do. With hope, we can acknowledge that worry, that potential for failure or ruin, but we also acknowledge that things might work out after all. Sure, the potential for awfulness exists, but the potential for wonderful success exists, too. Hope sees the many options, but chooses the happy path. I have to choose it, I have to put in some effort. Maybe most of us do.</p><p>For me, Christmas feels intentionally designed to foster hopefulness. At Christmastime, despite whatever is happening in the world or in my life today, I look backwards through traditions and memories, and all the while I anticipate a lovely Christmas Day. I live in a short-term hope. Maybe most of us do. It’s the hope that looks forward to a joyful day just a few weeks from now.</p><p>But Christmastime also helps me cultivate a larger vision of hope. It reminds me to live in long-term hope. Maybe most of us do that, too. It’s the hope that we will measure up to what God intends for us. It’s the hope that His work can be fulfilled in each of us. He did His part in sending down his Son to exemplify Godly behavior, in sending down his Son to expiate for us—almost like a cheat-code so that our mistakes won’t damn us—though it was enormously painful for everyone involved. After all His hard work, physically and emotionally, I hope that I’m worth it. I hope; I live in hope.</p><p>Think to yourself now: what do you hope for in these weeks leading up to Christmas?</p><p><strong>A couple of scriptures:</strong> </p><p>* Isaiah 40:9-11, 30-31</p><p>* Ether 12:4</p><p></p><p>I hope to have a Least Bad Poem to share next time, along with a Christmas song.</p><p>Until then, may your days be merry and bright.</p><p>All is well,</p><p>Jeff</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Lucky Words at <a href="https://luckywords.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">luckywords.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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