January 2010
30 posts
“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that...”
– George MacDonald
“God of Mercy” by Nneka.
I love this...
“The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is...”
– Robert Musil
Blitzen Trapper.
“What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation...”
– Gertrude Stein
“I ’m Czar, I ’m woman now.”
– Emily Dickinson
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
Cloudy w/ a Chance of Meatballs clip: hilarious. →
As a general rule, I don’t like kids movies very much. Maybe that makes me a bit of a buzz kill, I don’t know. BUT Sarah & I reluctantly took our Potter’s House girls to see this movie a while back and we were both dyyinngg the entire time. We thought it was so funny. So I suggest that you watch this short clip from it, because I just watched it after not having seen the...
Needle & Thread. →
I eternally think this is one of the most beautiful songs… and I don’t really use that word ever. I want it played at my funeral. I don’t think that’s a morbid thing to say.
More Madeleine L'Engle for your little heads.
After a day spent in the emergency room of a city hospital, a day in which I was surrounded by accidents, dying children, irritable patients, many of whom spoke no English and could not follow directions, I felt somewhat the same sense of irrationality in the world around me (all these people were there by accident) as did the man who was almost killed by the falling beam. Whenever this occurs I...
“When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to...”
– Julia Roberts
Ontology-
the study of the ultimate nature of things.
___________________________________
iGoogle. I think it's handy. →
My Top 25 Songs of 2009.
In no real order….
1. Shed A Little Light- Foy Vance
2. Sort of- Ingrid Michaelson
3. Ghosting- Mother Mother
4. Trapeze Swinger- Iron & Wine (ok, not new but I listened to it a lot)
5. Call It Off- Tegan & Sara
6. At Least I’m Not as Fun (As I Used to Be) - Fun.
7. In The Summertime- The Rural Alberta Advantage
8. Can’t Keep On Loving You (From a Distance) - Elliot...
…I wouldn’t mind if to be a Christian were accepted as being the dangerous thing which it is; I wouldn’t mind if, when a group of Christians meet for bread and wine, we might well be interrupted and jailed for subversive activities; I wouldn’t mind if, once again, we were being thrown to the lions. I do mind, desperately, that the word “Christian” means for so...
