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25th May, Friday (12:33pm) Reblog +
love what you have, have more to love
— regina spektor with firewood
nice things today
alternately entitled: why revision is hopeless.
hovering bumblebees. sunshine and rambly walks in the woods. ginger tea and leon cranberry flapjacks. mailing books of postcards to everyone you love. listening to dick keyes l’abri podcast on identity. writing in the early mornings with the windows open. sharing windows of scripture with friends. reading the name of the rose by the lake. arranging books in rainbow color order on the shelf. watching the waterfowl. developing a new breakfast routine: granola topped shreddies with soymilk and blueberries. discovering that i actually really like bergamot. crocheting with bright colors of wool. sitting in gardens drinking flowering jasmine tea. watching girls make daisy chains in the park. sipping elderflower sodas and people watching at a cafe.
sometimes life looks a little bit charmed from the outside. on the inside i’m the same mess of math angst and people frustrations and tangled worries. i hope at least there is a growing stillness and peace in the Lord beneath all of that.
but sometimes, the charmed exterior merits it’s own little list of thankfulness.
22nd May, Tuesday (2:45pm) Reblog +
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17th May, Thursday (2:18am) Reblog +
In all types of art there is a choice. Create what you feel because you believe in it, or create what you think will be ‘successful’. The difference between the two is this: with the latter, that which will be ‘successful’ can only succeed’ for a temporary moment with you and your physical state. But that which is created in sincerity, that which reveals part of your soul without control or plan, will outlive all of us and be generated between men for years to come. Though the work may not succeed in number of viewers, it still bears a life.
— Scott Avett of Avett Brothers fame
ArtWay ↘
Okay I need everyone to know that this exists. If we are tumblr friends, you need this link. Recommended book list? Check. List of all the best museums you’ll never find in a guidebook in Europe? Check. List of where to find some of the best conversation in the arts/theology anywhere? Check.
The email meditations make my Sundays. Maybe this is old news to everyone else, but if it’s not, then you should know that I would be happy to send you the DLJ one.
12th May, Saturday (5:12pm) Reblog +
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12th May, Saturday (4:26pm) Reblog +
When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?
— Bob Dylan
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11th May, Friday (7:12am) Reblog +
the only person you have to think twice about lying to is either yourself or to God.
— Bob Dylan
