February 2012
1 post
Take Heart. Love is Found. →
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
2 posts
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is; nor how valuable it is; nor how it compares with other expressions. It is...
November 2011
10 posts
“And the sky. The sky is an upside down cobalt blue breakfast bowl of stars newly...”
– Linford from Over-the-Rhine.
a cautionary tale. →
Little known fact. I’m a sucker for conspiracy theories. Not that I always believe them, of course, but they are always fascinating. And if you watch it, about minute 3:10 is my favorite.
It was a good, springy ground for walking, and a day of pale winter sunlight. As they got deeper into the moor, the loneliness increase: one could hear peewits and see an occasional hawk. When they halted in the middle of the morning for a rest and a drink in a little hollow by a stream, Jill was beginning to feel that she might enjoy adventures after all, and said so.
“We haven’t had...
The Once and Future Way to Run →
Rediscovering the simple act of putting one foot in front of the other.
huh.
October 2011
1 post
I stayed. I didn’t run. Oh, but you know how badly I wanted to. To blame here and to run there-
Only to find out that there isn’t any better than here because there always turns into here; there’s always another there.
And so here
I am.
September 2011
9 posts
decision fatigue. →
The very act of making decisions depletes our ability to make them well. So how do we navigate a world of endless choice?
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Marianne Williamson.
“The problem with knowing everything’s going exactly as it needs to is that...”
– partial enlightenment. story people.
time. →
August 2011
7 posts
real.
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become Real.”
“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.
“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real, you...
July 2011
1 post
From 'The Giver' to 'Twilight,' Young Adult... →
May 2011
1 post
March 2011
2 posts
February 2011
2 posts
wild geese. mary oliver.
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep...
“[Creating a company vision] has enormous organizational benefits. It means that...”
– ari weinzweig, zingerman’s
“It seems as if all my bridges have been burned,
You say that’s exactly how this...”
– mumford & sons. “roll away your stone.”
January 2011
1 post
And a youth said, “Speak to us of Friendship.”
Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the “nay” in your own mind, nor do you withhold the...
December 2010
6 posts
“I think this is an especially important moment and conversation. At a time when everybody in our culture is talking about tolerance, it seems that tolerance has the highest premium of any response — “If we just tolerate one another…” But my feeling is: Who wants to be tolerated? People don’t want to be tolerated; they want to be loved.
I don’t want to...
“This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust...”
– weight training. storypeople.
“look at the nations and watch—
and be utterly amazed.
for I am going to...”
– habakuk 1:5
November 2010
1 post
October 2010
1 post
“You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by...”
– c.s. lewis.
September 2010
1 post
“Lee’s hand shook as he filled the delicate cups. He drank his down in one gulp....”
– East of Eden. Steinbeck.
August 2010
9 posts
“The 20s are a black box, and there is a lot of churning in there. One-third of...”
– “What is it about 20-somethings?” NY Times