A delightful excerpt from Stephen Graham's 'The GentleArt of Tramping'

My secret's in the wind and open sky,

There is no longer any Time- to lose;

The world is young with laughter-we can fly

Among the imprisoned hours we choose!

The rushing minutes pause; an unused Day

Breaks into dawn and cheats the tired sun;

The birds are singing. Hark! Come and play!

There is no hurry! Life has just begun.

-Algernon Blackwood

Joy silenced me.

-C.S. Lewis (Till We Have Faces)

"I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils."

                           - Charlotte Brontë

"This isn't flying, it's falling with style." -Buzz Lightyear

Own your own soul

   

 

 "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. 

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst,if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

  

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

Never let us live with amousia.

Amousia: the absence of the muses.

“When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air,

you suddenly know what you are hoping for.”

Slow illuminations from reading 'Kingdom Ethics' by Stassen and Gushee

On the issue of determining what is discipleship; namely that it is based on faithfulness and not effectiveness.

To try and construct an ethics based on what is most effective is not plausible. We cannot predict the future; we can only analyze our hearts.

Intention.

Though thou loved her as thyself,

As a self of purer clay, 

Tho' her parting dims the day,

Stealing grace from all alive,

Heartily know,

When half-gods go,

The gods arrive.

-Give All to Love, Emerson

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe.

Beauty is not in the face; 
beauty is a light in the heart

Dear world,
Please read the following:

rêves se réveillant 
dreams awakening


looking forward and realizing
 this view is now
breath deeply and feel the weight
there is heaviness to living
a comfortable settling
like pulling on the covers in bed
and then pulling up one more
not because you are cold
but because it feels better
like sitting next to someone shoulder to shoulder
and leaning just a little
like washing your hands in warm water
and then leaning against the counter
so you can stay there to enjoy it without exertion
like every moment
in which time doesnt matter
time stands still-
but only here-
everywhere else it is passing by
open your mouth
 sit up straight to take in more of it 
more more more
more of this 
more of this moment

How good is man's life, the mere living!

Oh the wild joys of living! 

The leaping from rock to rock...the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

                                                                                    -Robert Browning

(picture taken by my friend who is currently in Argentina during the show Fuerza Bruta, which, as a side note is possibly one of the coolest productions on earth next to cirque du soleil...though it is a close second)