August 2011
1 post
June 2011
13 posts
“I suppose it’s because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things...”
– Agatha Christie, quoted in this video by Jeff House (via Jim Burke)
stacieburley:
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W.H. Auden
“Don’t spend money on gear. Spend it on plane tickets.”
– Audrey Sutherland (via lukescommonplacebook)
“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.”
– Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston (via sethphilpottmusic)
Something is missing in me—that feels like being born a wolf and choosing a dog’s life.
-from Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner
“‘There were a bunch of reasons I brought you kids here.’ He sighed and stared out the window. ‘Some kind of birds working out there. Crossbills?’ His jaw moved. He started to speak a few times. ‘Pandora’s box.’ He chuckled. He glanced down at his rough swollen hands. ‘To the Eskimos the land was everything. They knew the land.’ His...
May 2011
9 posts
No one knew that ordinary breakfast would be their last. Why not memorize everything, just in case?
-from The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
pointed
graceauden:
stacieburley:
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau
“I feel satisfied that we can get over the danger immediately before us; what tehre may be below I know not.” -John Wesley Powell
It was a long time ago. Mat was only a boy yet, though he was nearly grown. His Uncle Jack hired him to help chop out a field of tall corn in a creek bottom. It was hot and still, and the heat stood close around them as they worked. They felt they needed to tiptoe to get enough air. Mat thought he could not stand it any longer, and then he stood it a little longer, and they reached the end of...
April 2011
24 posts
The priests taught us about salvation and damnation. Now I have not the slightest notion of these things. I have felt on my shoulder the hand of my Guide, Yet he didn’t mention punishment, didn’t promise a reward.
-Czelslaw Milosz in Werki
“In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still; it goes deeper and makes for itself a deeper groove, delves. Delve means “dig with a spade”; it means hard work. In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.
It needs sturdiness. You will be lonely, you will be depressed; you must expect it;...
O you tender ones, step now and then into the breath that takes no heed of you: it will part as it brushes your cheeks and then tremble behind you, united again.
O you who are blissful, you who are whole, you who seem the beginnings of hearts. Bows for arrows and arrows’ aim, through tears your smile will glow more eternal.
Don’t be afraid to suffer—take your heaviness and give...
CPS and firing a teacher →
Thanks Engdahl
Luke's Commonplace Book: "I Have News for You" -... →
Best Ever.
lukescommonplacebook:
There are people who do not see a broken playground swing as a symbol of ruined childhood
and there are people who don’t interpret the behavior of a fly in a motel room as a mocking representation of their thought process.
There are people who don’t walk past an empty swimming pool and think…
“I believe lizards can turn into stallions.”
The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.
-Wendell Berry
Obscuritads: Wild Geese →
circumveiloped:
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You have only to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the…
“He told us we were free to choose But, children as we were, we thought— “Paternal Love will only use Force in the last resort
On those too bumptious to repent.” Accustomed to religious dread, It never crossed our minds He meant Exactly what He said.
Perhaps He frowns, perhaps He grieves, But it seems idle to discuss If anger or compassion leaves The bigger bangs to us.
What reverence is...
When it seemed there was no hope you showed us new ways forward, O God. When it seemed there were only endings you showed us new beginnings. Strengthen our belief in the power of life over death. Strengthen our belief in the force of truth over falsehood that we may be bearers of hope in the world, that we may be bearers of hope. -Phillip Newell, Cetic Treasure
for people who love lists →
It is now clear to me that there was no difference between ourselves and people living in a madhouse; at the time I only vaguely suspected this, and like all madmen, I thought everyone except myself was mad.
-Tolstoy from Confessions
sarahneff:
He who stands on tiptoe doesn’t stand firm. He who rushes ahead doesn’t go far. He who tries to shine dims his own light. He who defines himself can’t know who he really is. He who has power over others can’t empower himself… If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.
-Tao Te Ching
Donald Miller on Love Wins (Hilarious) →
What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so...
March 2011
17 posts
“You are what you share.”
– Charles Leadbeater (via lukescommonplacebook)
