November 2011
2 posts
“It is possible to pursue innocence as hounds pursue hares: single-mindedly,...”
– Annie Dillard
September 2011
5 posts
“The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that...”
– Wendell Berry, as quoted in Nachmanovitch’s Free Play
This just emailed
My college celebrates Hobbit Day:
” If you desire to join in the Hobbit Day festivities, meet at Anderson Commons for dinner anytime between 5:15 and 6:30. We should be pretty easy to find. We will be celebrating with a hearty meal together, during which time there may be speeches, songs or poems (bring one to share if you like). Around 6:45, we will continue the festivities with a...
August 2011
3 posts
2 tags
July 2011
7 posts
“Hermione is not Chosen. That’s the best thing about her. Hermione is a hero...”
– In praise of Joanne Rowling’s Hermione Granger series (via lukescommonplacebook)
WatchWheaton College Sophomore Class Film, starring Clark Jones and Jon Jones. Who are my favorites.
“At some point we need to stop simplifying, because it’s getting...”
– Jordan Adventure Wrinkle
Just as a fountain’s higher basins
spill down like strands of loosened hair
into the lowest vessel,
so streams the fullness into you,
when things and thoughts cannot contain it.
Rilke, Book of Hours 11.2
June 2011
4 posts
Pitchfork Interviews Kate Bush →
emarlync:
I just now saw this.
Best.
Maybe
Sweet Jesus, talking his melancholy madness, stood up in the boat and the sea lay down,
silky and sorry. So everybody was saved that night. But you know how it is
when something different crosses the threshold — the uncles mutter together,
the women walk away, the young brother begins to sharpen his knife. ...
“He who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most...”
– Kierkegaard, “Either/Or”
May 2011
4 posts
jameslepine:
New Bon Iver. Can’t wait for this...
April 2011
7 posts
Alternate lyrics to be sung to the chorus of...
1. Watch me do my dinosaur thing;
If you shoot me I will get extinct.
No, I ain’t your teradactyl.
Ain’t your teradactyl.
2. Or, more Easter appropriate:
Watch me do my salvation thing—
Put my in the grave but I am the king.
No, I ain’t gonna stay in hell, no!
Ain’t gonna stay in hell, no!
What I think about on my bicycle.
“He told us we were free to choose
But, children as we were, we thought—
...”
– WH Auden, “Friday’s Child”
Written in memory of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Rilke: The Sisters
Look how the same possibilities unfold in their opposite demeanors, as though one saw different ages passing through two identical rooms. Each thinks that she props up the other, while resting wearily on her support; and they can’t make use of one another, for they cause blood to rest on blood, when as in the former times they softly touch and try, along the tree-lined walks, to feel...
from the Tao te Ching
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.
“Let’s not be narrow, nasty, and negative.”
– T. S. Eliot
March 2011
18 posts
“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”
– G.K. Chesterton (via lukescommonplacebook)
“A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life....”
– G. K. Chesterton (via derekdevine)
“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of...”
– William Morris
What is prayer
if not a marriage
of passion and the opposing need
for quiet loneliness?
—From Margaret Gibson’s “The Spirit of the Dead”
The Age of Man →
Heed the Warning, by The Boxcar Children off Heed...