May 2013
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“Being pro-stewardship is not a case of valuing forests more than people; rather,...”
– Matthew Sleeth M.D., Serve God, Save the Planet. (via churchjanitor)
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Tonight: Songwriting.
I have four songs in the works. Four irons in the fire. I just haven’t made time to finish them. Incredibly fun, when you get to see them work out, but incredibly frustrating when you get stuck and ideas dry up.
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April 2013
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I keep looking because I keep hoping.
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“Grace is wild. Grace unsettles everything. Grace overflows the banks. Grace...”
– Doug Wilson (via fromthismountaintop)
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Dad illustrates kids’ sandwich bags with... →
Another reason I can’t wait to have kids: to be able to create for them. Stories, songs, illustrations.
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“I think poetry should be alive. You should be able to dance it.”
– Benjamin Zephaniah (1958– ), British poet (via oupacademic)
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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”
– Lloyd Alexander From Tusen år av fantasy – Resan till Mordor by Bo Eriksson (via mirroir)
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“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. I...”
– Frederick Buechner (via if-i-find)
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“You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to...”
– Anton Chekhov
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“A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged.”
– C. S. Lewis, Perelandra (via no-living-man-am-i)
stumblingintolove:
”Take the time to really attend to a meal, a good book, a piece of music, or a sunrise. The point is to be fully present, to not be swept up into the distraction of a thousand voices, but to learn how to simply and fully attend to one. Then, when one enters enters back into the noisy world we live in, even the million colors together are more vibrant because you have learned...
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“For [Hans Christian] Andersen, not only was the imagination of the children in...”
– Nina Rosenstand, “Stories of Value Across the Ages” The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics
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Neil Gaiman's 8 Rules of Writing →
“Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.”
In the winter of 2010, inspired by Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules of writing published in The New York Times nearly a decade earlier, The Guardian reached out to some of today’s most celebrated authors and asked them to each offer his or her commandments. After Zadie Smith’s 10 rules of writing, here come 8 from the one and only Neil Gaiman:
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“The main thing that I have found, is that we as a society-and particularly as...”
– Reese Roper of Five Iron Frenzy on calling and contentment (via larooster)
“Nothing made you feel as useless as another person’s grief.”
– Karou in Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor. Page 343. (via pointsevenpercentofasoul)
March 2013
14 posts
