January 2011
44 posts
This is where I want to be next Sunday at 6pm.
“When we look past actions and explore motives, we often find common ground. This...”
Clive.
Paul said “Be as harmless as doves” & “As wise as serpents.”
Christ wants a child’s heart, but a grown-up’s head.
Myself.
This is for Tyler:
To be alone versus being lonely is something I never really thought much about until recently. We say the words lonely and alone synonymously, when in fact, in my opinion, they express different states of being entirely. If being alone means that there is no man living out life with me, then yes, I am alone. But being lonely? I don’t think so. I’m completely content...
nutella & peanut butter brownies = nomnom →
“I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached...”
– Moon Palace, Paul Auster (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
I just spent almost 2 hours trying to write about my life. I got 5 meaty paragraphs into it and decided to stop. Oh well, goodnight.
Pretentious Imp.
Today at work, my boss Christine called me a pretentious imp! She said it is a good thing, but I don’t really see how being pretentious could have a good connotation. She said that even though I’m pretentious, I have a keen desire to see the other person’s perspective. I can’t disagree with her. It’s true. I think I’m right all the time and my expression lets...
music.
the way i hear god is nowhere near an audible form. i hear him with thoughts & emotions. i wrote in my journal back in november the words “take a break from music.” i replied, “if that’s you, say it again.” so, in january, he did and starting january 1st, i decided not to think about or play music, except on weekends. jesus cracks me up. he said “i get so...
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Lord Byron
There is pleasure in the pathless woods; There is rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.
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WHERE have I been?!
הָגָה
hagah - meditate:
to growl, moan, utter, muse, mutter, meditate.
To growl as used of the growl of a lion over his prey or as of low thunder.
To moan as in the sighing of men.
To mutter as of the sound of a harp or of the cooing of doves.
To meditate as one speaks with oneself, murmuring in a low voice.
To meditate is to attend to carefully, to practice.
To become engrossed in the...
George Gray.
I have studied many times
The marble which was chiseled for me-
A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.
In truth it pictures not my destination
But my life.
For love was offered me, and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.
Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life
And now I know...
Inception was fantastic.
“Downwards is the only way forwards. We have to carry on.”
“You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only…from human relationships. God has...”
– Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
2 Drinks and A Booth:
Last night, Jennster, Elise and myself walked to Legends for a few drinks. I am sick of ordering stupid girl drinks just because they are more prominentely advertised, so I ordered a rum and coke. Apparently, simply saying rum and coke gets you the nasty well rum instead of a better quality rum. Owell, it was cheap and tasted better than the girl drinks. Next up was a whiskey sour. Again, make...
“…History, despite its wrenching pain
Cannot be unlived, but if faced...”
– On The Pulse Of Morning by Maya Angelou
Don’t Expand Your Influence, Deepen It. →
2011.
“It begins with a lump in the throat; a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a...”
– Robert Frost on poetry
tidbit about me.
the way my brain works is this: if i just sit here and don’t do anything then tomorrow will never come, therefore, the impending task of moving back to LB won’t come either. clearly this is not the way it works nor should it be. if things worked the way my brain does, life would never happen which really would be bad in the long run. so, off to LB i go. honestly, i’m not too...
i want to own more poetry books.
“It is Scripture alone, not ‘conservative evangelical tradition’ or any other human authority, that must function as the normative authority for the definition of what we should believe.”
— Wayne Grudem
“But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!”
– The Letters of Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Bronte