February 2012
4 posts
Conversations
“When is the last time that you had a great conversation? A conversation that wasn’t just two intersecting monologues (which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture), but when had you last a great conversation in which you overheard yourself saying things that you never knew you knew, that you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places...
January 2012
5 posts
“In your hopelessness is the only hope, and in your desirelessness is your only...”
– Osho (via kari-shma)
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
– Theodore Roosevelt (via kari-shma)
December 2011
8 posts
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field.
I’ll...”
– Rumi
i am blessed: This is the thing: When you hit 28... →
iamblessed:
This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find … themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to…
Wendell's words
We live by mercy if we live.
To that we have no fit reply
But working well and giving thanks,
Loving God, loving one another,
To keep Creation’s neighborhood.
-Wendell Berry
Compared to the Air We Breathe
Wild air, world-mothering air,
Nestling me everywhere,…
I say that we are wound
With mercy round and round,
As if with air, the same…
And makes, O marvelous!
New Nazareth in us.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
5 posts
“The writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the...”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Quote of the day.
“Osama bin Laden, as we all know, bore the most serious responsibility for spreading divisions and hatred among populations, causing the deaths of innumerable people, and manipulating religions to this end. In the face of a man’s death, a Christian never rejoices, but reflects on the serious responsibilities of each person before God and before men, and hopes and...
April 2011
12 posts
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...”
– Roald Dahl (via kari-shma)
March 2011
5 posts
February 2011
14 posts
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune...”
– Emily Dickinson (via kari-shma)
The Problem →
diamondnight:
The problem (if there was one) was simply a problem with the question. He wants to paint a bird, needs to, and the problem is why. Why paint a bird? Why do anything at all? Not how, because hows are easy, series or sequence, one foot after the other, but existentially why bother, what does it solve? Be the tree, solve for bird. What does that mean? It’s a problem of focus, it’s a...
