March 2012
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February 2012
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Possibility
I dwell in Possibility - A fairer House than Prose - More numerous of Windows - Superior - for Doors - Of Chambers as the Cedars - Impregnable of Eye - And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors - the fairest - For Occupation - This - The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise - [Emily Dickinson c. 1862]
November 2011
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,...
April 2011
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Thesis, thesis, thesis.
“Tropical vegetation cannot well be described; but the fact that even when seen it is hard to understand, need not prevent an attempt to sketch the general features. The real trouble that meets the novice on the threshold of the tropics in the utter inadequacy of the English language to express the variety and luxuriance he sees in the vegetable world. Even in color his vocabulary fails...
February 2011
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December 2010
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Theology with Dr. Bronner
Lord God of nations unite us yet
By thy law, the Moral ABC of the free
Lest we forget, lest we forget!
For foolish heart that puts its trust
In manmade tube and iron sharp,
All passing dust that builds on dust,
And guarding it, calls not You to guard,
For frantic boast and foolish word —
Have mercy on thy people Lord!
A man and not a monkey, a man! Amen.
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Renunciation - is a piercing Virtue
Oswald Chambers, Dec 12th
Personality is that peculiar, incalculable thing that is meant when we speak of ourselves as distinct from everyone else. Our personality is always too big to grasp… Personality is like an island, we know nothing about the great depths underneath, consequently we cannot estimate ourselves. We begin by thinking that we can, but we come to realize that there is only...
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November 2010
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From 'Errand into the Wilderness'
“What could Europe show for all of Rousseau’s tirades against civilization but a band of bohemians, congregating amid the brick and mortar of Paris, trying to keep alive a yearning for such naturalness and spontaneity as any child of the Ohio Valley indubitably flaunted without, like them, becoming an outcast from society?”
Perry Miller
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October 2010
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September 2010
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August 2010
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“Look!” She led him to the nursery door, pointed at the fuzzy brown head of...”
– Sinclair Lewis, Main Street (1920)
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July 2010
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