Welcome to Douglas Wilson's Blog and May Blog, presented by Canon Press.

For a glory and a covering, February 1st, 2023.

Introduction.

So here is an interesting thing.

A number of weeks ago, during Canon's Christmas sale,

the team pulled a quote from a new book of mine called The Covenant Household

and sent it out into the world of Instagram as a promo for the book.

I'm reminded of Oscar Wilde's observation that a gentleman

is someone who never insults someone else accidentally.

As you might guess, there are times when I type something up,

knowing that it might be a tad spicy.

And so I try to budget for all that and now I phrase things.

Well, that didn't happen this time.

By Wilde's measurement, at least I failed the test of a gentleman,

meaning that the quote started an inadvertent uproar.

There's a sense in which a post like this might continue

or perpetuate the controversy that is certainly possible.

And so let's not rule that out.

But for what this post is forced to alay any concerns that are alayable,

which is a word I don't use very often, if at all,

and to exacerbate those outrages that had no business being outraged.

Let me start with the latter and move on to discuss the glory of the woman's hair.

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