December 2009
5 posts
“I would like to spend the day on the slope of a mountain, listening to a parable...”
– Conversion by Billy Collins
“Each one is a gift, no doubt,
mysteriously placed in your waking hand
or set...”
– Days by Billy Collins
“We were born to embrace, not accept it
We were given nothing more, and so we...”
– Let Us Love by NeedToBreathe
Time and Contentment
I by no means have any right to encourage contentment ever especially right now. I’m just as wanty and needy and utterly human or more so than the rest of you. Plus! There have been so many great deals (and my parents overcompensate with stuff occassionally to make up for—or more like to distract me—from my life of constant chronic pain and fatigue) that we have bought me all...
“I sit down quietly in lotus position,
Meditating, meditating for nothing....”
– Last stanza of a Nanao Sakaki poem found in Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
November 2009
16 posts
“I ask you.
This business of having been issued a body is deeply...”
– Anne Lamott, Plan B
“I started skiing only six years ago, and tend to have balance and steering...”
– Anne Lamott, Plan B
Two AM Feelings
Poe once said that the most beautiful thing in the world was a young dead woman. Whether you agree or not is of no interest to me. All I know is that I think he said this because there was so much sickness and death and loneliness suffocating him and the ones he cared about. If a young woman was spared the conflict, the trials, the tribulations of this world and was allowed to quickly move on to...
“Things got broken-they always do-and children always yap and stamp and cry and...”
– Anne Lamott, Plan B
“My mind is my main problem almost all the time. I wish I could leave it in the...”
– Anne Lamott, Plan B
“Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it...”
– Plan B by Anne Lamott
“Above all, remember that the meaning of life is to live it as if it were a work...”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
“The Franciscan priest Richard Rohr points out that Native Americans have a...”
– Rob Bell, Drops Like Stars
“Mark Twain said that IF HE’D HAD MORE TIME, HE WOULD HAVE SAID LESS.”
– Rob Bell, Drops Like Stars
“Is the cross God’s way of saying, “I know how you feel”?”
– Rob Bell, Drops Like Stars
“But suffering, suffering unites”
– Rob Bell, Drops Like Stars
“I need to hear some songs that recognize the pain in me”
– Richard Ashcroft, “Bitter Sweet Symphony”
“None get to God but through trouble”
– Catherine of Aragon
“Writing always means hiding something in such a way that then it is discovered”
– Italo Calvino
It's late or is it early?
The crap I get myself into in the wee hours of the night, like making a tumblr…. Well we will have to wait and see if it lasts.
