The House of Christmas

[@davidsonofyisrael4469]

You sir are a dignified classy gentleman. I can listen to you for hours. Enjoy the USA.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Thanks for listening

[@annnadge308]

Wonderful reading of a timeless poem that “unwraps” Christmas . “Unwrap Christmas wherever you are Walk safely together and follow that star”

[@Scribblore]

I love Chesterton but have read very little of his poetry. This is a good reminder of the treasure that is in store for me there! Hearing this one has inspired me to write a bit on the same theme: The fox has its den and the bird has its nest but we will only find our rest with the one who wanders the wilderness. Our refuge is with the refugee who flees in vulnerability from Herod’s heartless cruelty. Emmanuel, a homeless man is scattered like a grain of sand, while our home is in his open hand. There is no room in the Inn for him and there is no rest in a room for us until we find our peace in him and honour him with all our trust.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

nice one!

[@joshharris8874]

Beautiful! Happy Christmas and blessings for you journey to the US.

[@oldfilmguy9413]

We are indeed "strangers living in a strange land." Blessings and safe travels!

[@stonylawncottagepipe4429]

I am so glad to end my day with your visit here on a snowy Sunday here in snowy Minnesota...

[@pipesmokinjogger1241]

I've been dealing with life changes middle age inflation teenagers, my life teaches constantly to dissolve fear God bless

[@loveandpeace1985]

Christmas blessings to you too!

[@HaylieSings]

"Men are homesick in their homes."

[@michaelwatts3342]

Safe travels and a very Merry Christmas to you too sir.

[@marc4199]

I love how it always starts with a knock on the door. It's a visit with an old friend.

[@Wolkenbruch7]

Have a nice trip.

[@walkingnerfwithjack1881]

Merry Christmas Malcolm from Chicago. Love learning from you!

[@QHarefield]

I have just found this, by Peter Faulkner, written in 1994 as part of an introduction to a volume of GKC's poems. "Although the publication of his poems occurred in the years when Ezra Pound and ... T.S.Eliot were revolutionising the practice of poetry in England by moving away from regular rhythms towards a free verse that would produce subtler and more sophisticated results, Chesterton practised a kind of poetry which paid not the slightest attention to Modernism." As I said earlier, thank goodness for that!

[@loveandpeace1985]

Lighting up my briar pipe with you tonight :) another beautiful video Have a safe trip to NY!

[@-You-Tube-]

Every day is made better when Malcolm uploads, and is made better still for a Chesterton quotation.

[@marclayne9261]

Beautiful....

[@WeWiLLRefuse]

I live in New York, Malcolm! We're glad to have you!

[@StDavidpipes]

Merry Christmas and God’s blessings! Thank you for the lovely poetry throughout the year. I do hope Father Christmas brings you a tidy new Peterson and some proper tobacco!

[@loganevans907]

Merry Christmas Malcom! Thank you for sharing your time with us

[@theworth123]

Thanks for your great Vids, mate.. I've just discovered 'em. I'll be binge viewing 'em over the next few hours. Have a great trip over the pond. God bless from a Yorkshire lad. A little poem of mine for all thinkers into the new year... Out with the Old, in with the New. This plated curving edge of year - spun thin - with a solstice end, high blown in this the lowly season - a prayer belatedly sung - plays out meagre signs from the snows blown as beautified whites - as all turns to icy flows of grey - unendurable these past scenes of the street - though - yellowed by its lights and fancies of past weak and stronger deeds - of seeds sown in belief in annual hopes of delight - a potent and heady song to come in light and relief. Steps to take and doors to unlock - a future with an open heart to endure one more time - one more tune - a year - an endurance forever believed, as each week extends to creep into lengthening stretching years - old now, turning young - experiences torpidly seen, as though reviewed to redo and regain anew their revisable charms - fortified as so, for the foray, under smoke filled forensic eyes - the duty bounds, to make anew - tho' we the cowardly, it seems, retain the oldest of mortal coils, and its deadliest sins of yesteryear. Author: Tony Wrigglesworth.

[@Nighttrainpiper]

Christmas blessings!

[@DanielKellyFolkMusic]

Thankyou Malcolm, this one is going straight to the recording studio! Merry Christmas and safe travels to the US.

[@sethkidwell6728]

Thank you so much Malcolm. I really like the Getty's. They are great people. Safe travels:)

[@MotifMusicStudios]

What a lovely channel to discover. I love hearing your ponderings and with such a beautifully calming reading voice as well.

[@Mr.McGriddle]

Just put down Waiting on the Word to tune in to this. A very Merry Christmas to you sir, thank you for all the wonderful videos

[@shantavakian4238]

As a fairly new teacher, I’ve learned so much about the literary context and delivery of poetry from you. I appreciate having you as a kind of mentor in literature. Thank you and Merry Christmas✝️

[@peterjohnstone2877]

Thanks for reciting and posting this Christmas Chest(erton)nut ...Make a side trip out to Cali. Would love to see you face to face again. It was in my youth too when I last set foot in NYC. Around the same time we last hung out together at Little Gidding.

[@peterjohnstone2877]

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[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Maybe one day!

[@marybrewer2203]

Happy Christmas and Bon Voyage, brother in Christ!

[@les6186]

Thank you for the lovely poem, and Merry Christmas! Also, I read the interview you did with Tish Harrison Warren in the New York Times. Wonderful!!!

[@cynthiaford6976]

Very lovely, and that line about the wings so affecting and adumbrated! An apostrophe-shaped leviathan of a snow storm is hurtling towards the entire continent, so stay warm, dress in layers. Carnegie Hall, how great! and what acoustics! Merry, merry Christmas!

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Many thanks!

[@mopbucket4938]

Beautiful. Thank you.

[@marcpaters0n]

Wishing you a peace-filled Christmas.

[@adrianrice9450]

Have a lovely time, Malcolm xox

[@QHarefield]

Thank goodness that poetry did 'not' change for ever after TSE; otherwise, we would no longer be reading your fine creations, and that would be our loss. Thank you for reading this to us; I had not heard of it before.

[@justfollowjesus7216]

What are some of your go to pipe tobacco blends?

[@tombroughton6757]

I am confused by your mention of refugees. Please explain.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

I am simply referring to the fact that there are a large number of refugees in the world now, as there were in the time of Christ.

[@tombroughton6757]

@@MalcolmGuitespell Thank you for the clarification. At first I thought you were asserting that they the Holy Family were homeless illegal aliens living in poverty, which they weren't.

[@cuchulain55]

ok thats better.

[@cuchulain55]

put the fecking pipe down ! you cant do both at once!

[@justfollowjesus7216]

What are some of your go to pipe tobacco blends?

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Peterson deluxe navy rolls