February 2012
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God wrote, “I love you” - he wrote it in the sky, and on the earth, and under the sea. He wrote his message everywhere! Because God created everything in his world to reflect him like a mirror - to show us what he is like, to help us know him, to make our hearts sing.
- The first paragraph of The Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones
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Sailboats
She stared at them, as though trying to take in every line and every crease- retain everything in the recesses of her mind.
“If we hold our hands together tightly enough, we can hear our heartbeats,” she said.
It was always this way with her; everything was always a magical Perhaps land, waiting to be discovered.
When will she see that we cannot live this...
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Useful in most contexts, really
1. Be there. 100%.
2. Listen.
3. See the details.
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Headlights
Something is closing inside us,
not a door but a window, followed
by the finality of curtains
obliterating a sky long bruised
by night and steely wet
with stars.
- An excerpt of the poem Headlights by Cyril Wong
I don’t think I could have summed it up better. Asking me to feel like I once did is like trying to resurrect a cadaver. Impossible, messy and unnecessary.
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A Blade of Grass
You ask for a poem. I offer you a blade of grass. You say it is not good enough. You ask for a poem. I say this blade of grass will do. It has dressed itself in frost, It is more immediate Than any image of my making. You say it is not a poem, It is a blade of grass and grass Is not quite good enough. I offer you a blade of grass. You are indignant. You say it is too easy to offer grass. It is...
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The Layers by Stanley Kunitz
The Layers
I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray. When I look behind, as I am compelled to look before I can gather strength to proceed on my journey, I see the milestones dwindling toward the horizon and the slow fires trailing from the abandoned camp-sites, over which scavenger...
Watchistillshootfilm:
Film: Not Dead Yet
Full Article: What film photography still has to offer - CNN.com
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“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.”
– Wallace Stevens (via bodasdesangre)
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“We are living in remarkable days. No time to waste.”
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Love, Where is Your Fire? - Brooke Fraser
Love,...
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