February 2012
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“We have only one noun
but as many different kinds:
the grainy snow of the...”
– “Not Only the Eskimos” by Lisa Mueller, from Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times, ‘cause these are hard times, yo.
December 2011
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tylerknott:
“Yellow” a Coldplay cover by Sara...
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“The modern biographers worry
‘how far it went,’ their tender...”
– Lisa Mueller, “Romantics: Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann”
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“Sometimes things don’t go, after all,
from bad to worse. Some years,...”
– Sheenagh Pugh, “Sometimes”
November 2011
8 posts
“Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.”
– Madeleine L’Engle
“The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience...”
– Carl Jung
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“tell me there remains an infinity, lush and luscious with life, an...”
“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...”
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism. (via lukehackney)
“In a political culture of managed spectacles and passive spectators, poetry...”
– Adrienne Rich, Someone is Writing a Poem (via wwnorton)
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“Within the Christian story there is the depth and richness of troth in...”
– Dan Brennan, Sacred Unions, Sacred Passions: Engaging the Mystery of Friendship Between Men and Women
This passage doesn’t deal specifically with male/female friendship, obviously, but that is book’s overall theme. There are terrific sections on same-gender friendship and friendship...
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“Both in the Bible and in tradition, the spirituality of friendship is presented...”
– Dan Brennan, Sacred Unions, Sacred Passions: Engaging the Mystery of Friendship Between Men and Women
October 2011
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September 2011
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I could not be who I am today without this woman. →
We met in, oh, 2004? - laughed together in 2006, cried together in 2007, became unquestionably real friends by 2008, and - wow. I am kind of crying now, thinking of the strength, courage, generosity, and grace I’ve learned from Stefanie Wheat-Johnson. What I’ve had the privilege to know of her story brings energy, validity, and hope to my own.
“Never give a hollow greeting of peace or turn away when someone needs your love.”
– The Rule of St. Benedictine
I needed to be reminded of this.
August 2011
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Eugene Nida →
In his work, Nida emphasized the importance of cultural context—both the cultural context of Bible and the cultural context of the language into which the Bible is being translated. One example he liked to use was the parable of the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25, where the sheep represent those who have done the Lord’s will, and the goats are those who haven’t. “Look out,...
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“What saves her is the awareness that she’s alone in the world and always...”
– Joan Gould, Spinning Straw Into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman’s Life
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Instructions for a Thursday evening
Come in from work, sweating, not from the work itself but from the drive home. Go straight to the freezer. Chocolate mint ice cream is best in the red mug on which is printed “I love you” in every language (okay, six of them, all European). Admire your own expertise or good fortune at making homemade ice cream. Admire short sentences your friends have posted online.
Reflect briefly on...
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http://astinkingspring.tumblr.com/post/876721468 →
A Brief for the Defense By Jack Gilbert
Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies are not starving someplace, they are starving somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils. But we enjoy our lives because that’s what God wants. Otherwise the mornings before summer dawn would not be made so fine. The Bengal tiger would not be fashioned so miraculously well. The poor women at the...
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“I could suffice for Him, I knew—
He—could suffice for Me—...”
– Emily Dickinson #643
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“Brothers, have no fear of men’s sin. Love a man even in his sin, for that...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zosima” (Chapter III, Book VI, Part II), The Brothers Karamazov
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“None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power...”
– Rabbi Harold Kushner (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
Amen.
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“The lonesome for they know not What—
The Eastern Exiles—be—...”
– Emily Dickinson #262
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“On the moor, Jane Eyre learns her lessons: She existed before she met Edward...”
– Spinning Straw Into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman’s Life by Joan Gould
there/their/they're; your/you're
thedailywhat:
Internet Filtration System of the Day: A modest proposal from Matthew Baldwin (AKA defective yeti): Internet Access Captchas to keep certain less-desirable types off the Information Superhighway.
Here’s what happens when you’re your grammar skills aren’t up to snuff:
Problem solved?
[thd.]
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amar es combatir
τοῦ λοιποῦ ἐνδυναμοῦσθε ἐν κυρίῳ καὶ ἐν τῶ κράτει τῆς ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ. ἐνδύσασθε τὴν πανοπλίαν τοῦ θεοῦ πρὸς τὸ δύνασθαι ὑμᾶς στῆναι πρὸς τὰς μεθοδείας τοῦ διαβόλου· ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἡμῖν ἡ πάλη πρὸς αἷμα καὶ σάρκα, ἀλλὰ πρὸς τὰς ἀρχάς, πρὸς τὰς ἐξουσίας, πρὸς τοὺς κοσμοκράτορας τοῦ σκότους τούτου, πρὸς τὰ πνευματικὰ τῆς πονηρίας ἐν τοῖς ἐπουρανίοις. διὰ τοῦτο ἀναλάβετε τὴν πανοπλίαν τοῦ θεοῦ, ἵνα...
July 2011
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“Do you know I’ve been sitting here thinking to myself: that if I...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Get Acquainted” (Chapter III, Book V, Part II), The Brothers Karamazov
“In all the Bible, only three women are described as loving: Rebecca, who loved...”
– from Beginnings: Reflections on the Bible’s Intriguing Firsts, by Meir Shalev
This doesn’t mean that Rebecca, Ruth, and Michal were the only women in the Hebrew Bible who loved, of course.
And I don’t know why Shalev doesn’t count the sheperdhess in Song of Songs as a...
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“Which one leads to the bigger life?”
– Ann Marie
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“Εἰρήνην ἀφίημι ὑμῖν, εἰρήνην τὴν ἐμὴν δίδωμι ὑμῖν.”
– Jesus, John 14:27
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““…You see, I shut my eyes and ask myself if everyone has faith,...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, “A Lady of Little Faith” (Chapter IV, Book II, Part I), The Brothers Karamazov
(Thank you, Jim Gardner.)
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“This door you might not open, and you did;
So enter now, and see for what...”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay, “This Door You Might Not Open, and You Did”
“D-re-A-mi-N-gl-Y
leaves
(sEe)
locked
in
gOLd
after-
gLOw
are
t...”
– e. e. cummings, “D-re-A-mi-N-gl-Y”
such a lot of world
It is a fine evening in Nashville which, after a hard day and good rest, finds me sitting down to a bowl of potato-cucumber-squash-onion-kohlrabi (I don’t know what to call it, but those are the main vegetables…) soup and a Paternoster monograph on Hebrew poetry. It occurs to me that one reason I make soup so often is that it seems easier to use as many ingredients as possible in one...
“For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an...”
– Galatians 5:13-15
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“When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a...”
– Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
June 2011
19 posts
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“The balancing act between how much rule-making you like in language and how much...”
– Linda Holmes | NPR Monkey See | Going, Going, And Gone?: No, The Oxford Comma Is Safe … For Now (via fromoneroomaway)
Forever yes.
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Sometimes, as a single Christian woman, I feel like I’m a… a hazard of some sort. Some kind of inadvertent femme fatale. Like if I breathe the wrong way I’m going to wreck a home or break a heart or crush a spirit.
I don’t know how to do this.
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“amar es combatir, si dos se besan
el mundo cambia, encarnan los deseos,
el...”
– Octavio Paz