August 2011
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Jul 31st
“We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends,...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer  
Jul 31st
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serenade
Billy Collins Let the other boys form the village gather under your window and strum their bean-shaped guitars. Let them huddle under your balcony heavy with flowers, and fill the night with their longing— locals in luminous shirts, yodeling over their three simple chords, hoping for a glimpse of your moonlit arm. Meanwhile, I will bide my time and continue my lessons on the zither and my...
Jul 30th
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Jul 29th
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Art and Faith Conference →
I wish I was still in Atlanta for this on August 13th. 
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“One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other...”
– James Joyce (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
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“Unlike his great contemporary, Tolstoy, who was forever drawing up educational...”
– Eugene Peterson
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“To go through a life painlessly is to have not lived. Even just to say to...”
– Jonathan Franzen for The New York Times (via gracebello)
Jul 20th
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“A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
– Ernest Hemingway
Jul 20th
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Jul 18th
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“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
– Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
Jul 18th
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“From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and...”
– Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
Jul 17th
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“We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be...”
– T.S. Eliot. Four Quartets
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Before Air-Conditioning
By Frederick Seidel   The sweetness of the freshness of the breeze!  The wind is wiggling the trees.  The sky is black.  The trees deep green.  The man mowing the enormous lawn before it rains make goodness clean.  It’s the smell of landry on the line And the smell of the sea, brisk iodine,  Nine Hundred miles inland from the ocean, it’s that smelll.  It makes someone little who has a...
Jul 16th
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“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our...”
– Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
Jul 15th