August 2008
23 posts
I wish I was BFF with Gandalf.
“Others say it’s not surprising that more women haven’t spoken out....”
– ~business week magazine, on the CEO and founder of American Apparel, Dov Charney, who is being sued by 3 former employees for sexual harassment.
“Soccer is the only thing those people have… that and the running of the...”
– my mother
“the tide of darkness seemed to sweep him back to her, postponing from moment to...”
– “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” Flannery O’Connor, 1955
i can’t imagine what it feels like to not have Jesus. the pointless wandering. the empty void that a person tries to fill with their own logic.
i am so glad i have been washed in the blood. everything in my past has been redeemed, white as snow. i carry no baggage. i am free.
honestly
i like my face. i like my body. it really isn’t like any one else’s and it isn’t completely proportional. my face seems weird to me sometimes and my body is kinda bizarre in its different parts that somehow wound up together. but i like it. i really do. i want THIS face and THIS body. if i let a thought into my head that someone may look upon me and not see something beautiful, i...
Irving Berlin said it.....
It takes a German to make Lager Beer It takes the French to make wine It takes a pale-faced man from old Japan To make a nice embroidered fan It takes a Turk to make the cigarettes For you American men It takes a black-eyed Hawaiian lad To make ukeleles, but then It takes an Irishman to make love It seems to fit them just like a glove
“Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart”
– W. Shakespeare
Psalm 107
“They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way; They found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble and He delivered them out of their distresses. And He led them forth by the right way.
“For He satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness.
“Oh that men and women would give...
