January 2012
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“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.”
– Wendell Berry, Citizen Papers (via)
Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying
“For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some changes were phenomenal. Each experienced a variety of...
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“When Murakami sat down to write his first novel, he struggled until he came up...”
– Sam Anderson profiles Haruki Murakami (via Thessaly)
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Descending Theology: The Nativity
By Mary Karr
She bore no more than other women bore, but in her belly’s globe that desert night the earth’s full burden swayed. Maybe she held it in her clasped hands as expecting women often do or monks in prayer. Maybe at the womb’s first clutch she briefly felt that star shine
as a blade point, but uttered no curses. Then in the stable she writhed and heard beasts stomp in their...
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“I’ve recently thought a lot about how depression is really the opposite of...”
– T. Michael Martin
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“Comfort Me” - Feist
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Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!— that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.
—from “Last Night As I Was Dreaming” by Antonio Machado
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WatchDM Stith (does Christmas) - “I Stay Still”
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Louis CK's Shameful Dirty Comedy
It’s a pretty shallow insight to say that a comedian who has a special named Shameless creates his comedy about shame, but I never noticed. Louis CK has jokes because he is ashamed of his body, ashamed of his thoughts, his culture, his whiteness, whatever. Every joke seems to be about shame in some way. Ashamed of the things he doesn’t do that he knows he should. Ashamed of the things that he...
“The Gospel came to the Greeks and the Greeks turned it into a philosophy. The...”
– The Problem with Pastor as Rock Star (via ayjay)
"I'm never sure who deserves to be put on a... →
Banksy on his new work, “Cardinal Sin”
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LITTLE GIDDING, Four Quartets - T.S. ELIOT
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There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference Which resembles the others as death resembles life, Being between two lives—unflowering, between The live and the dead nettle. This is the...
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“It is because a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever...”
– William Faulkner, Light in August (via mumblelard)
White Whine →
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“You know, in my own life, when I would talk to people about my childhood, when I...”
– Justin Torres, author of one of my favorite novels from this year. Reminds me of a quote from Updike: “Families teach us how love exists in a realm beyond liking or disliking, coexisting with indifference, rivalry, and even antipathy.” - wesleyhill
Awesome People Reading →
This is my new favorite tumblr. (HT Jeffrey Overstreet)
“I’ve spent the last couple of weeks living in a monastery, largely to complete a...”
– The modern welfare state could learn a lot from the Medieval monastery - (via mwfrost)