Worthy of Replay

The Winter Season

Top 25 In 2025

I Smile As The Glory Fades

A Dissident's Existence- https://www.jayopsis.com/2025/06/wrestling-daily-in-babylon.html

Not To Babylon

Tribute to the T.S. Eliot poem- In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.

Measured My Life (Prufrock)

Elijah runs and hides in a cave. We expect God to work like dynamite, but He tends to work more like yeast.

Whispered Words (I Kings 19)

"Southern Gothic" draws its inspiration from the haunting landscapes and complex moral struggles that define the Southern Gothic literary tradition. Influenced by the works of William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, John Steinbeck, and Ernest Hemingway, the song explores themes of sin, grace, decay, and redemption. Read more about the song here: https://www.jayopsis.com/2024/11/southern-gothic.html

Southern Gothic

The idea for this song came from a 12 week Sunday School series I taught to a wonderful class made up of 70 and 80 year olds. One day, a woman said..."Where you are headed in inevitable... you won't escape it" But the joy they live with made a lot of difference in my struggle with aging.

Inevitable

contemplating thoughts on a solitary walk in snow

A Walk Alone In Snow

This song is a re-edited update of a poem and ideas that go back to the fall of 1982. More info here: https://www.jayopsis.com/2025/06/unrealized.html

Unrealized

https://www.jayopsis.com/2025/11/the-north-winds-working-on-me-again.html

Inspired by- In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver- 

To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.

North Wind

Can I carry it alone?
Is my heart enough to hold
All the questions, all the pain
When the answers slip away?
Is there strength in what I see,
Or a deeper mystery?
When the weight of the absurd
Falls like shadows on my soul?

Weight of the Absurd

Finding strength and growth when daylight fades and nature goes dormant- there is still purpose and beauty in the season of our discontent. Do you believe this?

Winter of Discontent

Can't Trade Back

https://www.jayopsis.com/2025/11/34-empty-cold-coffee-cold-days.html

Three-quarters Empty

https://www.jayopsis.com/2025/12/unforgiven-clint-eastwood-movie.html

Unforgiven

How do you help people with mental illness who are smarter than you are? You can't, just be there until they win with their powerful mind. See the movie..... read this post- https://www.jayopsis.com/2025/12/built-by-brilliance-beautiful-mind.html

Built By Brilliance (A Beautiful Mind)

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Built By Brilliance (A Beautiful Mind)

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