January 2010
45 posts
“The only thing wrong with being an atheist is that there’s nobody to talk...”
– Anonymous
“We can see nothing face to face; our utmost seeing is but a fumbling of blind...”
– Samuel Butler Ramblings in Cheapside (1980)
“We’ve got material minds, and restless hands.
Longing hearts, and lonely beds....”
– —“Lonely”, The Middle East (via elking)
“We are all born with God-given, unique traits and skills. But, as with all...”
– Leo Buscaglia
“About two years ago a young lady came into my office, and I knew immediately...”
– Leo Buscaglia Living, Loving and Learning (1985)
“A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.”
– Samuel Butler, Life and Habit chapter 8.
Who Knows Where To Go?
Your brain opens at a certain point to the realization that, while you’ve been sitting here waiting for someone to tell you where to go…there is no one who knows. You know you’ve become an adult when you have realized, all of a sudden, that you’re meandering in the same open field as the people who raised you, and everyone to Adam and Eve.
I’m looking at a lot of...
“Why should a man’s mind have been thrown into such close, sad,...”
– Thomas Hardy
“The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God....”
– Bono
Emptiness
Sometimes lessons are easy to spot on the surface (easy to fabricate, and just a sprout away from a cliche). Sometimes, they’re just underneath a little pond scum, but what foolish virgin among you is thrown off by a little scum?
I’ve felt the strongest of lessons in the emptiest of movies, the most ridiculous moments of life, the songs that are meaningless to everyone else but just...
The Big Nasty.
I never thought I would admit this, but it is kind of crazy growing up into an adult. I’ve been pretty taken in and haven’t realized it until now.
When you’re a teenager, you struggle, but you mostly think the struggle’ll end, because you’re told it’s a “phase.” The only thing that is passing, though, is the shock and tremor of the issues of...
Weak or Strong?
It’s funny how we have these pigeonholes for people and relationships. We think about them in context with the rest of us and we place them in one of two categories: weak, or strong.
People usually imagined me to be of the strong variety. Someone who would take charge in a relationship and make you suffer if you were intolerably stupid. Someone with the opinions, the ideas, the plans, the...
“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of...”
– Ellen Goodman
Net, Enin, Thgie, Neves
This is one of this awesome thoughts that you have AFTER THE FACT, and thus is lame, but you want to say it anyway, because you think it’s so awesome.
I totally wish I knew how to say each of the numbers backwards. eerht, owt, eno…and I would do the count-down that way.
I’m totally not going to though, because, now that I’ve typed this out, it looks real dumb, and I...
Head first into 2010
Arms and legs wiggling. Quite frightened but, upon inspection, appear to be quite okay. PTL.
It started off with a (lot of) bang(s) and it marked the first year that I was awake over 48 hours. We got to our party destination of choice at a bit past twelve, because of an experience with our car that left us quite stranded in the freezing cold (not after we pushed it to a gas station and felt the...