Living here is like occupying a five digit glove with a rickety staircase spanning the palm. Of course it takes courage and some days courage hides in the pinkey and the only way to access it is to maneuver the rickety staircase. On those days, which are almost every day, it is a waste to struggle towards courage. I have…
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Reaching
Lamenting The Garden
The woman is huddled in sorrow and loss. Though kicked out, she does not yet know the joy of her salvation. Her estrangement from the garden is the stomping ground of God’s inexplicable love. See the bright light behind? It won’t be long until she sees it too. She is wise to sit and wait. Blessed is she who waits…
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Love and Abstraction
It is impossible to truly love and keep the soft fragile center of oneself, that part so much like an egg, but not an egg, safe. (Of course, not an egg.) A person only begins with an egg. Once born, this beginning person is meant to be joined. Arriving in a self folded upon a self, a person is a…
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MUST SEE
Os Guiness speaks about freedom, virtue and faith. Very Very Intriguing.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ9ZiIWkcmM
From J.R.R. Tolkien
“’What do you fear my lady?’ “A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire.’”
A Quote Worth Reposting
“God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of himself. Aword will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it. But if I am true to the thought in Him I was meant to embody, I shall be full of hisactuality and find him everywhere in myself and myself nowhere. I shallbe lost in him. In…
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A Poem by Billy Collins
Purity My favorite time to write is in the late afternoon,weekdays, particularly Wednesdays.This is how I go about it:I take a fresh pot of tea into my study and close the door.Then I remove my clothes and leave them in a pileas if I had melted to death and my legacy consisted of onlya white shirt, a pair of pants,…
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Quote from Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
“Since I cannot mend the book, I must add to it. To leave it as it was would be to die perjured; I know so much more than I did about the woman who wrote it. What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the…
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If You Want to Hear About Passion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E11cDEr272YIF YOU WANT TO HEAR ABOUT PASSION. OH MY!
The Half Known World by Robert Boswell
Robert Boswell says: “a percentage of researchers genuinely believe thathumans do not really learn anything ever; rather we spend our lives discovering inborn capacities. …If we don’t learn then we merely discover the range,complexity and limits of our wiring….what weseem to be doing as writers (he infers) is listening to a story as it spins itself out..perhaps when we talk…
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Matrimonial Honey
Matrimonial Honey Here I have taken four pieces of birch, carved away the negative space to reveal the images signifying a Season of Rain, a Season of Moon, a Season of Promise and a Season of Bloom. After rolling the carvings with ink and stamping them onto a paper called kozo, I embellished the printed designs with hand applied ink…
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