January 2012
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“And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.”
– Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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what if?
“See what I’ve given you? Safe passage as you walk on snakes and scorpions, and protection from every assault of the Enemy. No one can put a hand on you … At that, Jesus rejoiced, exuberant in the Holy Spirit. “I thank You, Father, Master of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the know-it-alls and showed them to these innocent newcomers.” (Luke 10:19,21)
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Entertainment Vs. Art, by Lariv Athem →
“In the increasingly information-heavy times in which we live, distractions abound. The word distraction literally points back to a certain losing (dis) of control (traction). We start off with an intention to focus on something, but then a momentary lapse of clarity leads us astray. The drifting isn’t just arbitrary – there is a subtle attraction, and our attention finds itself ...
Wait - what ?: A Poem For Sunday “Before You Know... →
dreaminginthedeepsouth:
A Poem For Sunday
“Before You Know What Kindness Really Is” by Naomi Shihab Nye:
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, …
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an excessive love
“By this time a lot of men and women of doubtful reputation were hanging around Jesus, listening intently. The Pharisees and religious scholars were not pleased, not pleased at all. They growled, “He takes sinners and eats meals with them, treating them like old friends.” Their grumbling triggered this story. “Suppose one of you had a hundred sheep and lost one....
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Andrew Hyde, the Man Who Owns Only 15 Things →
“Other than the issue of really wanting a new color shirt sometimes, I really am not missing much, but experiencing a lot.” More at Andrew Hyde.
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“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...”
– ― Roald Dahl (via justbesplendid)
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“You, as an artist, have the greatest responsibility of all.
You are charged...”
– I Wrote This For You: The State Of The Artist
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a woman we love - zee avi →
An excerpt from my Esquire story on Zee Avi.
Where I accidentally sneezed into a ciggie tray, and blew ash all over her. Did I mention she was sick and about to play in a show six hours later? Not my finest moment. Of course, it’s in the story.
Other than that, really enjoyed our chat. The kind of girl who zigs when others zag.
In other news, I got promoted. I’m now the associate...
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“We are broken people, holding each other’s pieces, in the hope of a new...”
– Tim Goh
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dreaminginthedeepsouth:
It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to lose it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then...
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– Neil Gaiman (via anditslove)
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25 Things Writers Should Stop Doing →
“Let 2012 be the year of the risk. Nobody knows what’s going on in the publishing industry, but we can be damn sure that what’s going on with authors is that we’re finding new ways to be empowered in this New Media Future, Motherfuckers (hereby known as NMFMF). What that means is, it’s time to forget the old rules. Time to start questioning preconceived notions and established...
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“When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and...”
– Henri Nouwen
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“I’ve always felt that the world into which we were born is nothing less...”
– Charmefou
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2012: a year of courage
* I like to begin every year with a word/phrase that somehow rings in my heart, and sets the tone for the days and months ahead. In 2010, the phrase was “a year of gifts”. In 2011, it was “a year of remembrance”. These words serve as an anchor, and has become a practice I’ve really cherished every new year.
“The two of them, the Man and his Wife, were naked,...