February 2012
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“They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a...”
– Banksy
tumblr needs less pictures and more thoughts.
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first impressions.
i’ve always held the position that first impressions are everything. that the first thing i say to someone is going to depict the rest of our relationship, or non-relationship, depending on whatever words i muster up and how embarrassing they are.
a couple months ago, 3 or 4 perhaps, i was still living in Indy working at a Starbucks that was fairly close to a new venue in the Carmel area...
like a father to impress like a mother’s...
“There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.) And as I lay there, it occurred to me that God is up there somewhere. Of course, I had always known He was, but this time I felt it, I realized it, the way a...
if a hipster hates you, does that mean that everyone else loves you?
…and meanwhile, in the moonlight, the trees shake their heads like disco dancers in the nightlife of long ago.
“The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the...”
– Elizabeth Bishop
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via libraryland)
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i don’t finish reading a lot of the stuff that I start, especially online. i am distractible. but maybe that’s not because of some basic inability. maybe it’s because a lot of stuff is crap, or starts out strong and then turns into crap. maybe it loses my attention because it’s no longer worth my attention, which is limited and valuable and, like a flashlight, can only shine in one direction at...
most people use solitude as an escape.
but what if all you really want is some time out from yourself? what’s your escape if your mind is what you’re trying to escape?
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“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via hhemmeger)
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sweeeeeeet disposition.
Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
moving on is not like a birthday, you can’t count down the hours ‘til it arrives and you can’t mark it on a calendar and you can’t call up your friends to help you celebrate.
you can’t plan for it and you can’t conclude it by blowing out a candle. when moving on happens there will be no announcements, no notifications, no congratulations. there will be no parade. only you will know.
first with...
this here is without foundation
in brevity will it sit
in that meager space between light and dark form and void it is only form and it may only ever be for this moment is it’s only aspiration and its only intention
it is only a thought
an idea
yet you find reason to question its nature?
are you to save it from its fate?
will you permit this fleeting spark? this wick? this candle? to...
isn't it strange how the creative mind works?
sometimes we have an idea. it can be anything visual, really. an idea for a logo. an idea for a graphic. an idea for a painting, or the interior design of a bedroom. anything. it all starts with an idea.
an image in our head. we construct it. we mold it. bringing in colors, shapes, text, textures.
we explain it to others, we brainstorm together.
and then it’s executed.
sometimes...
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WatchOHH MY GOSHHHH I JUST HAD A HEART ATTACK
Justin Vernon (from Bon Iver) and The Roots jamming to “Perth”
“Live your life in many dimensions, constantly creating and seeking new horizons upon which to embark. Never restrict your existence to any one thing. Embrace your multiplicity. Instead, plot your life in such a way that you represent a graph that touches many points in an ever increasing achievement curve.” — Easton C. Leiba
“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”
– 1 Peter 5:7
i visit these mountains with frequency and I stand...