February 2012
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The world and time are the dance of the Lord in emptiness.
The silence of the sphere is the music of a wedding feast.
The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomenon of life,
the more we analyze them out into the strange finalities and complex purposes of our own,
the more we involve ourselves in sadness, absurdity and despair.
But it does not matter much,
because no despair of...
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Snubbing Teach for America →
My wonderful friend wrote this.
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“Laugh till you weep. Weep till there’s nothing left but to laugh at your...”
– Frederick Buechner
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Attack Dog →
New Yorker piece on the nature of negative political ads and the Super-pacs that are now able to fund them.
When you read something like this it really is tough to have much hope for the republic.
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The Amplified Ryan Gosling →
An interesting (if not slightly bitter) take on Ryan Gosling and some of the characters that he plays.
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The 20 Most Beautiful Bookshops in the World →
Courtesy of Amos.
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“You know what they say about love and war… One is a lot of physical and...”
– Spaced.
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January 2012
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“Once upon a time in the dead of winter in the Dakota Territory, Theodore...”
– (via cktville)
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WatchA method for French press that I swear by.
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WatchGlen Jones on NPR’s Tiny Desk.
This is simply perfect for a Monday morning.
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The Obama Memos →
An incredibly fascinating article from the New Yorker. But how on earth do they get this kind of information? It’s like they’re spying on the Oval Office….
Are they spying on the Oval Office?
Also, there’s this line..
“Obama was learning the same lesson of many previous occupants of the Oval Office: he didn’t have the power that one might think he had. Harry...
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“There’s this pollyannish notion that the most important thing to do when...”
– From the Article “Group Think” in this week’s New Yorker.
And let me add an “amen” to that.
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“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor,...”
– Stephen Cobert, who is quickly becoming my personal hero.
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“Would you hear of an old time sea-fight?
Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and the stars?
List to the yarn, as my grandmother’s father the sailor told it to me.
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Serene stands the little captain,
He is not hurried, his voice is neither high nor low,
His eyes give more light to us than our battle-lanterns.”
- Walt Whitman
Song of Myself, 35.