{"id":33184,"date":"2024-10-15T14:05:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T19:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33184"},"modified":"2024-10-15T13:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T18:50:06","slug":"but-do-i-get-a-poetry-collection-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/15\/but-do-i-get-a-poetry-collection-no\/","title":{"rendered":"But Do I Get A Poetry Collection? No!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This summer, I read a couple of small collections of poetry that were given away by the Salesian Missions in the 20th century (The Way<\/a><\/em> and Priceless Gifts<\/a><\/em>). Late last week, I learned that I myself was on a Salesian Mission fundraising list:<\/p>\n

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I’m on a lot of Catholic charity fundraising lists since I subscribe to First Things<\/em> (which is turning more into what the National Review<\/em> used to be back in the old days rather than a Catholic magazine per se<\/em>–it even has a lot of writers that used to or still write for the National Review<\/em> and is getting into the habit of reviewing their books), Touchstone<\/em> (which I will let lapse as I have not found it particularly engaging), and The New Oxford Review<\/em>. <\/p>\n

It’s possible that I’ve gotten Salesian Missions pitches for years and have not paid attention. They have not, however, had little poetry collections to my sadness.<\/p>\n

I mean, I open all the pitches and harvest anything useful. Most of the time I collect the address labels which are so popular now (one day, the return address labels will stop coming, and I don’t want to have to buy my own like it’s the Reagan-Bush years, for crying out loud). Sometimes I get a notepad (I have not only a drawer full of them with my name on it, but many with my sainted mother’s name on them–I should probably make more to-do lists or something). I get little feet medallions, angel coins, and a rosary once. But no collections of poetry from Salesian Missions.<\/p>\n

Maybe that’s reserved for the donor lists. Maybe I should send them $5 sometime and see what I get.<\/p>\n

I did get a couple of Christmas cards out of this envelope. Perfect for second-strike Christmas card capability. Or for if we find we have enough leftovers from years past so that we do not need to buy a box this year. Especially the ones with glitter<\/a> on them<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This summer, I read a couple of small collections of poetry that were given away by the Salesian Missions in the 20th century (The Way and Priceless Gifts). Late last week, I learned that I myself was on a Salesian Mission fundraising list: I’m on a lot of Catholic charity fundraising lists since I subscribe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33187,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33184\/revisions\/33187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}