December 2011
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Going to try something new as an experiment. Won’t be blogging here but you can find me on my main blog at Messy Canvas.
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I think everyone needs a box of special things.
“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.”
– Maud Casey
“All I can say is that my life is pretty plain. I like watching the puddles...”
– Blind Melon
When you get a sense of who you are you do not have to convince everyone of those facts. You need only convince a few close, inner-circle of friends. And even there you will find they don’t need convincing for they have known it to be you all along. And it is wondrous to have fellowship in the knowing, especially on the days you will forget.
“…Walker, there is no road, the road is made by walking. Walking you make...”
– Antonio Machado
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“There was the delicious consciousness of going to sleep and ecstasy on...”
– Albert J. Beveridge
“An Oxford-educated Indian put the matter: ‘You have brought us a Christ...”
– Each With His Own Brush
Picking the word “vulnerable” for my next year of life feels a bit like willingly entering back into the junior high school cafeteria and scanning the crowd hoping someone has managed to save me a seat and then realizing I don’t actually want to be sitting in the first place. And who said I had to be? I have the power to walk right back out of that cafeteria and keep on walking....
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“I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic
and she said yes
I asked her if...”
– God Says Yes To Me by Kaylin Haught
It’s the grace we forget in all our striving.
“I came to explore the wreck.
The words are purposes.
The words are maps.
I...”
– Excerpts from the poem Diving Into The Wreck by Adrienne Rich
“Kitchenette Building
We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,...”
– Gwendolyn Brooks
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