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People don't want you to be perfect. What they want is to feel connected with you.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
About A.E. Housman | “…poetry was an emotional and physiological experience that began with a sensation in the pit of the stomach. The apparent discrepancies in this man who became both a first-rate scholar and a celebrated poet should be a reminder that, whatever else poetry does, it also records the interior life, a life that has its roots well beneath the academic gown or the business suit.”
“The laws of God, the laws of man,
He may keep that will and can;
Not I: let God and man decree
Laws for themselves and not for me;
And if my ways are not as theirs
Let them mind their own affairs.
Their deeds I judge and much condemn,
Yet when did I make laws for them?
Please yourselves, say I, and they
Need only look the other way.
But no, they will not; they must still
Wrest their neighbour to their will,
And make me dance as they desire
With jail and gallows and hell-fire.
And how am I to face the odds
Of man's bedevilment and God's?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.
They will be master, right or wrong;
Though both are foolish, both are strong,
And since, my soul, we cannot fly
To Saturn or Mercury,
Keep we must, if keep we can,
These foreign laws of God and man.” Last Poems XII, Project Gutenberg
Flowers and their meanings: Beauty in Our Catholic Altars – The Catholic Wire
thecatholicwire.orgFlowers and Symbolism
There’s a tremendous friction that arises when you don’t allow yourself to do what you really want to do with your life. You make a lot of halfway decisions to negotiate your competing priorities: what you want, and what you want to want.
Dan Shipper • Every’s Master Plan
becoming a [computing-internet-creative] [researcher-artist-technologist-???]
(clearly still searching for a term that feels right, or maybe I don’t need just one term and should embrace these multiplicities?)
(clearly still searching for a term that feels right, or maybe I don’t need just one term and should embrace these multiplicities?)
Spencer Chang • towards flight: a new chapter
“Boy, nothing real can be threatened”
–Beyonce
C.S. Lewis on the value of starting where you are:
“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
It’s unavoidable to run into evil. Just so you know, it’s live backwards.
So you shall not pass: “Drawrof doog.”
Ej • Brandywine Commons With Then College Peers Getting Smarticle