And death is at your doorstep And it will steal your innocence But it will not steal your substance Above is an excerpt from the song Timshel by Mumford and Sons, the folk rock band from the UK which continues to grow exponentially in adoration. Put simply, I find their music to be exceedingly brilliant….
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Those Times When I Don’t Exist
For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception. When…
Putting People in Crosshairs
As a Christian, I urge Christian political leaders to refrain from violent and divisive language….we do not need to put our opponents in crosshairs, or reload, but affirm our positions without personalizing, marginalizing, or threatening. We need to place the path of Christ – non-violence, forgiveness, and prophetic hospitality – ahead of our limited viewpoints….
Is someone renting free space in your head?
To forgive is to set someone free and then find out it’s you. To not forgive is to let someone rent free space in your head. Why let the wrong they did determine your joy? Revenge doesn’t work. Tweeted by Rob Bell On January 7th, 2011 Painting by cattoo
Walter Benjamin’s Romantic Criticism
[Walter Benjamin’s]…idea is that criticism does not stand outside the work of art, but stands alongside, maybe even inside, the work of art, participating in the work in order to further express and tease out what the artist already put there. In this theory of criticism, we don’t need the critic to tell us what…
A Poem of The Most Profane Sort
The old woman tilted her head like a cat who had just heard cellophane crinkle. It was almost as if she could hear something that I could not. “I would rather not speak at all than to speak words doomed to immanent ignorance,” she croaked. I had hardly begun my reply when, after following the…
Grandma Got Made Over By A Reindeer
This comic is hanging in the bathroom where I work. I laughed.
Peter Saville on Pop Culture
Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. —Peter Saville
It’s All Ball Bearings Nowadays
FLETCH: I’m gonna’ need some pliers, and a set of 30 weight ball bearings (it’s all ball bearings nowadays) And I’m gonna’ need about 10 quarts of antifreeze, preferably Prestone. No, make that Quaker State. Chevy Chase from the movie Fletch (1985)
The Disease Was Life Itself
As a child, Wallace was forceful and imaginative. He frequently made his younger sister play audience to long, ad lib dramas populated by characters like Captain Phlegm and his sidekick Goat Bile. During adolescence, Wallace moved into the basement of the family’s Philo, Illinois home. He painted the walls black and hung cork tiles on…