America the Beautiful

Found out today that America Magazine just whole a bunch of awards from the Catholic Press Association, including a first place for General (i.e. all-around) Excellence and another first place for its website. If you haven't been to see it yet, take a look. My favorite parts of the website: the amazing slide shows, and the blogs they do for Scripture (The Good Word) and current events (In All Things). Some great stuff!

Here's a poem to combat manic Mondays:

Deep autumn:
My neighbor, how does he live?
I wonder.

Basho
(Translated by Robert Hass)