January 2012
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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.
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Here is a side benefit to my life: went to a Shakespeare lecture with a friend of mine. The guy who teaches the course is the head of the Shakespeare Institute, which is basically the seat of everything Shakespeare in the world.
Anyway, we talked about King Lear.
It has one of my favorite lines:
“The weight of these sad times we must obey, to say what we feel, and not what we ought to...
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“The deep need of man is the need to overcome separateness, to leave the prison...”
– Eric Fromm
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Quidditch →
Updated with the correct link.
Yes, I will be recreating this very soon. You can count on it.
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“To my writing classes I used to open by saying that anybody who could talk could...”
– Christopher Hitchens, on writing. (via cktville)
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Tonight there were four separate people who asked me to perform their wedding when they get married. One guy asked me to do his funeral. The funny thing is that each was completely sincere.
I could say so much about right now. About the people that I’ve met and the conversations that I’ve had just tonight. I am living the dream and beside myself that it’s happening. I am so...
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I labored for nearly an entire day putting together a meal for some friends, the old and the new kind. I tried a new thing that I’d never done before and it came together. People stayed late and they laughed. At some point I moved back to the kitchen and tackled the dishes, piled high up on the counter tops like a scene from Cinderella. Yet, the whole time, from start to finish, all I could...
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Come to Birmingham! →
Number 19, people. Read it and weep.
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“Aren’t you, like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to...”
– Henry J.M. Nouwen
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“In our day-to-day lives, we are always trying to manipulate or otherwise act on...”
– Nicholas Carr (via cktville)
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Sometimes stories of our soul need a place to... →
junias:
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for the adventure of being…
“Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music,...”
– Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection (via cktville)
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“The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the...”
– Tom Robbins
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It's Tough to Know Who To Trust
A talk I gave at Canvas on Tuesday, January 10, 2012.
*Not edited for grammar and typos—- just a draft that I talked from.
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It’s difficult to know who to trust these days.
I went traveling a bit over the break and every time I fired up the Toyota Picnic, which was graciously lent to me by Josh and Rebekah, I wondered if I could trust that the engine would function properly...
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Paste: 25 Albums to Look Forward To →
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On Stephen Colbert- Absolutely a Must Read →
This man is such a genius in so many ways.
“In 1974, when Colbert was 10, his father, a doctor, and his brothers Peter and Paul, the two closest to him in age, died in a plane crash while flying to a prep school in New England. “There’s a common explanation that profound sadness leads to someone’s becoming a comedian, but I’m not sure that’s a proven equation in my case,” he told me. “I’m...
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“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
– J.K. Rowling.
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Billy Collins →
If you live in Atlanta and you like poetry: please go to this for me.
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