...in which our undaunted binary hero risks everything in a desperate attempt to establish contact with the outside world.
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An absolutely must-read blog post by Sally Read. It’s about sex, and dating, and love, and how people always assume poems are...
If you’re still looking for a blanket, sweetie, I’m sorry; I’m no sort of fabric
mewithoutYou - Paper Hanger
Ugh, I got so much...
a cop out. It’s a cover for intentional ignorance, a way of...
Mind-Melter of the DayIt turns out that if you divide 1 by 998,001 you get all three-digit numbers from 000 to 999 in order.
An event occurred yesterday that appalled me. An older white man came in the store to deliver plants. Edward unloaded...
My prayer is that I may be taught to embrace this broken heart so that I may fully know your unceasing love.
“Ignorance is excusable when it is borne like a cross, but when it is wielded like an ax, and with moral indignation, then it becomes something else indeed.”
Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
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“The Amish do not carry health insurance. The government respects their principles. Christian Scientists want to heal by prayer alone, and the new health care reform law respects that. Quakers and others object to killing even in wartime, and the government respects that principle for conscientious objectors. By its decision, the Obama administration has failed to show the same respect for the consciences of Catholics and others who object to treating pregnancy as a disease.”
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
Kurt Vonnegut (via citantlavie)
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Celebrating one of my favorites today.
Springsteen.
photo by Frank Stefanko
“SUPPOSE that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down. A grey-clad monk, who is the spirit of the Middle Ages, is approached upon the matter, and begins to say, in the arid manner of the Schoolmen, “Let us first of all consider, my brethren, the value of Light. If Light be in itself good —” At this point he is somewhat excusably knocked down. All the people make a rush for the lamp-post, the lamp-post is down in ten minutes, and they go about congratulating each other on their unmediaeval practicality. But as things go on they do not work out so easily. Some people have pulled the lamp-post down because they wanted the electric light; some because they wanted old iron; some because they wanted darkness, because their deeds were evil. Some thought it not enough of a lamp-post, some too much; some acted because they wanted to smash municipal machinery; some because they wanted to smash something. And there is war in the night, no man knowing whom he strikes. So, gradually and inevitably, to-day, to-morrow, or the next day, there comes back the conviction that the monk was right after all, and that all depends on what is the philosophy of Light. Only what we might have discussed under the gas-lamp, we now must discuss in the dark.”
-G. K. Chesterton
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