February 2012
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“This illness is to fatigue what a nuclear bomb is to a match. It’s an absurd...”
– Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit, on the misnaming of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) as “chronic fatigue syndrome”. (via akittenatemycouscous)
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“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it”
– William James
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January 2012
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a kitten ate my couscous: between two women:... →
akittenatemycouscous:
BBC Cymru Wales’ second series of period drama Upstairs Downstairs will portray onscreen the rekindling of a long-running romantic relationship between two women: Dr Blanche Mottershead (Alex Kingston) and Lady Portia Alresford (Emilia Fox). When news of the plotline emerged yesterday at a…
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Anyone for a game of sexuality tennis?
Further to yesterday’s link to the story about “curing the lepers”, here are a few “frustrated” thoughts put to paper:
I’m tired of this game of sexuality politics tennis that has being going on in the “stadium of Christianity” for God knows how long. Ball batted back and forth continually. Marathon game. No tiebreaker to finish it all and never ...
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The shocking failure of Anglican Mainstream’s cure... →
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“Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of...”
– Salman Rushdie (via ghoshface)
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“Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue....”
– Stephen King (via nuaira)
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“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
– Pablo Picasso (via nuaira)
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“To impose our categories of literalism and factual accuracy onto a rich, ancient...”
– Inerrancy is weak (via azspot)
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“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
– Hermann Hesse (via jorcamfdez)
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“Perfection is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist’s...”
– Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird (via jen-erator)
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“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a...”
– Dalai Lama (via nuaira)
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The Word
Down near the bottom of the crossed-out list of things you have to do today, between “green thread” and “broccoli” you find that you have penciled “sunlight.” Resting on the page, the word is as beautiful, it touches you as if you had a friend and sunlight were a present he had sent you from some place distant as this morning — to cheer you up,...
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“Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance...”
– Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies (via invisibleforeigner)
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“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What...”
– Hermann Hesse, Demian (via solacerequiem)
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“The fact that the all-powerful nature was capable of stooping down to the...”
– Gregory of Nyssa (via invisibleforeigner)
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Click on Wales » Blog Archive » Cymdeithas at 50:... →
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“Each individual’s visible statement of pride in their heritage or identity is a...”
– Naomi Tucker
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“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody”
– Maya Angelou
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“I like me and that’s all that matters”
– Beverly Engel
My dishing of compliments
Was i actually fishing?
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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is...”
– MARK TWAIN
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“If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll...”
– Bob Dylan
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We can convert our unceasing thinking into unceasing prayer by making our inner monologue into a continuing dialogue with our God
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The rudeness of illness
It interrupts.
Knows no etiquette.
Social niceties have passed it by.
It’s embarrassing, uncomfortable, highly anti-sociable.
I say “go away!”.
But the unwelcome guest remains.
A squatter and impostor.
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Closure
It took courage to walk up to that door.
It opened.
I hesitated, not sure if it was wanted.
I sensed an invite and eagerly accepted.
But just as I stepped to cross the threshold…
The door slammed!
Closed!
Shut in my face.
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I was disappointed,
rejected,
but not devastated.
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And now as I reflect, I feel strangely liberated.
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“Simplicity is the glory of expression.”
– Walt Whitman
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“Do you want to know the one thing that will make every single one of your...”
– Lisa Earle McLeod (via azspot)
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“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
– Walt Whitman
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the-enchanted-tree:
I’m not really a fan of Carol Ann Duffy’s work, but her poem ‘Standing Female Nude’ is possibly one of my favourite poems. I think it truly is brilliant.
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“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll (via 8letters3words-1meaning)
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“You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the...”
– (via kristinarenee)
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“The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future....”
– Maya Angelou
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“We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.”
– Lauryn Hill