September 2011
28 posts
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It Is Enough
I have been told by a former professor and now friend, who I endearingly refer to as Papa Frank, to follow my bliss. This, I imagined, was some sort of specific career in which I would find myself and in doing so come to be completely happy, but a recent realization has changed my understanding of this.
I was sitting in my bed reading the Nicomachean Ethics when the thought came to me that it is...
Getting Things Done
I’ve spent many years trying to find some process, trying to understand how to attain the supposed goals I had in mind, but I failed to realize what those goals were. I’ve wrestled in myself for so long, a battle between feelings, desires, and reason for what I would, or would not, do. The application of some process, however, when all the parts are not working together, will fail....
I just want everyone to be happy
justdrinkyourtea:
And everything to work out.
Amen.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-18) →
The Innocence Mission (201)
Laura Stevenson and The Cans (6)
St. Vincent (5)
Beirut (4)
Bill Evans (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-11) →
The Innocence Mission (94)
Laura Stevenson and The Cans (15)
Beirut (9)
Annie (5)
Basia Bulat (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me....”
– Thomas Merton, “Thoughts in Solitude”
in the spirit of e.e. cummings
Your beauty
Is beyond compare
But more than this(because you in you is
The thing that is loved)I love that you are
And what greater beauty(for in you is beauty
And you are beauty)than your soul
That is(for it is and that is enough)so
That I may give all my
Gifts in love
not-a-jot:
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“We need a record of our failures.
Yes, we must document our love.”
– (via kbkova)
To Love
I have found, in recent experiences, the root of the feelings of love. It does not continue as if from a pitcher filled with the desire for another flowing over upon the loved. It does not need or want for itself. It is an eternal fire that burns within: whole and unquenchable. Lasting is this love, it needs no lover to feed its fire, but it warms both the lover and the beloved. And for those...
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“…and even if that giving sometimes slows to a trickle because of fear, I trust...”
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The Way I Loved: Morning
When I awoke, I was reminded of wise words, perhaps by the Spirit’s still voice, that it is through fears that we come to hear and know that we can love without fear.
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Not A Feeling
Today, I walked into the great room of my parents home to see them sitting on the couch, giddy as two kids. I laid down on the portion of the couch left and asked my father and mother why they love each other. My father said he just loved my mother, and it had nothing to do with his feelings. If it were his feelings, he said, he’d be in for a rollercoaster ride of emotions. My mother...
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Your love helped me see through my fears, but you gave in too soon to see the work of beauty in pain your hands have wrought.
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I woke up two two posts on my dashboard about choosing the way of love and peace. It’s good to see my friends have opened their hearts to love as well.